About
Monika Grønli Rosten is a social anthropologist and research professor at the department for Youth Research, NOVA / OsloMet. Rosten holds a PhD from the University of Oslo (2015) where she wrote about place and belonging among youth and young adults, based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Groruddalen, Oslo. Rostens research interests are youth culture, minority stigma, deprived areas and area-based initiatives, youth crime, domestic violence, youth participation and co-research. She is currently associated with NOVAs research program on domestic violence, with projects on social control in vulnerable neighbourhoods and couple formation across ethnic and religious boundaries. Rosten is also the Norwegian PI in an international comparative research project on Muslim experiences in a context of treath in Europe (QUEST).
Field of study
Gender Ethnicity Family health Youth culture Identity Minority youth The Welfare state The Grorud Valley Domestic violence Belonging and place
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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A Boost for Youth Clubs – A Research Project for Better Youth Services
How can youth clubs be strengthened to provide better services for young people? From 2025, we will follow the five-year initiative "A Boost for Youth Clubs" to develop knowledge about quality, framework conditions, and the club’s role in the local community.
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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.
Completed research projects
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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.
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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.
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Exploring Relationships of Trust and Distrust Between Youth Populations and Public Services in Vulnerable Areas (Ungtillit)
The project will contribute to gathering and developing knowledge about what young people's trust and distrust of public helpers is about, an how we can strengthen the relationships.
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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.
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Involving young people in research and development of services, with the school health service as an example (UngPuls)
UngPuls will test knowledge-based methods for youth participation in research and service design.
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Parenting in Ethnic and Religious Minority Contexts in Norway
The aim of the project is to develop research-based knowledge about different forms of parenthood that co-exist in Norway, based on parents’ own perspectives.
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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?
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Vestel, Viggo Jan;
Rosten, Monika
(2024).
Seven critical events regarding Islam and Muslims in Norway - Three points of tension.
La Revista de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos (REIM).
https://doi.org/10.15366/reim2024.36.003
Rosten, Monika
(2024).
Revisiting the “Asian Gang” in Southern London and Eastern Oslo.
Ethnic and Racial Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2358513
Rosten, Monika
(2024).
Nabolagsstigma, Representasjon og sannferdighet.
Houge, Anette Bringedal; Kruse, Anja Emilie (Ed.).
Etisk ubehag. En ærlig lærebok om kvalitativ forskning på sensitive temaer. p. 56-69.
Universitetsforlaget.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3266422
Rosten, Monika
;
Aarset, Monica Five
(2024).
«Du representerer, mann!» Minoritetsnorske strategier for stigmahåndtering.
Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift.
Vol. 35.
https://doi.org/10.18261/nat.35.1.3
Aarset, Monica Five
;
Rosten, Monika Grønli
; Iversen, Ida Sabina
(2024).
Forhandlinger om hva, hvem og hvordan: Minoritetsnorsk ungdom i romantiske relasjoner.
Nordisk tidsskrift for ungdomsforskning (NTU).
https://doi.org/10.18261/ntu.5.1.3
Aarset, Monica Five
;
Rosten, Monika Grønli
(2024).
Stuck in Representation. Muslims Participating in the Norwegian Public Sphere.
Journal of Extreme Anthropology.
Vol. 8.
https://doi.org/10.5617/jea.10734
Rosten, Monika
;
Hagen, Aina Landsverk
;
Tolstad, Ingrid M.
(2021).
Fra tynn til tykk medvirkning: Unge medforskere
som lokale kunnskapsprodusenter.
Hagen, Aina Landsverk; Andersen, Bengt (Ed.).
p. 43-73.
Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://doi.org/10.23865/noasp.150.ch2
Sletten, Mira Aaboen
;
Rosten, Monika
; Vogt, Kristoffer Chelsom
(2021).
Svartmaling av gutter og sykeliggjøring av jenter.
Ødegård, Guro; Pedersen, Willy (Ed.).
UNGDOMMEN. p. 87-110.
Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
https://doi.org/10.23865/noasp.142.ch4
Rosten, Monika Grønli
;
Smette, Ingrid
(2021).
Pragmatic, pious and pissed off: young Muslims girls managing conflicting sexual norms and social control.
Journal of Youth Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2021.1981841
Aarset, Monica Five
;
Smette, Ingrid
;
Rosten, Monika
(2021).
Thinking through generation: On parenting and belonging among adult children of immigrants in Norway.
Falch-Eriksen, Asgeir; Takle, Marianne; Britt, Slagsvold (Ed.).
Generational Tensions and Solidarity Within Advanced Welfare States. p. 79-95.
Routledge.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003129592-7
