Monica Five Aarset

Research projects

• A Study of Cases in the County Board Concerning Care Orders

  The project deals with the Child Welfare Service’s and the County Social Welfare Boards’ handling of compulsory care order cases in ethnic minority families.

• Descendants of Immigrants and the Concerned Welfare State

  This project examines the ongoing, relational negotiations between the welfare state and the public's understanding of problems, on the one hand, and processes of change in the minority population, on the other.

• Evaluation of minority counsellor pilot projects in upper secondary schools and adult learning centres

  NOVA researchers will evaluate two pilot projects placing minority counsellors in secondary schools in vulnerable urban areas and adult learning centres.

• Evaluation of Ritual Circumcision of Boys (RITOM)

  This evaluation shall produce research-based knowledge on whether the Norwegian law on ritual circumcision of boys functions according to its purpose.

• Family Counselling: Equal Services for a Diverse Population?

  The researchers investigate what it implies for the family services to provide equal services in different local contexts, and what kind of challenges the services experience when trying to provide equal services.

• Literature Review on Cousin Marriages

  Literature review: Research on cousin marriages as seen in the light of the individual right to decide about one's own life.

• Qualify Unification in Europe for Shifting Trust. A Comparative Research on Muslims Responses to the Politics of Threat in France, UK, Spain, and Norway (QUEST)

  What does it mean to ‘be Muslim’ in a polarized Europe?

• The Domestic Violence Research Programme

  The programme studies time trends in the prevalence of violence and assault, violence as phenomenon, and how violence is approached by the welfare- and justice systems.