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Tina Mathisen

Tina Mathisen

Job title
  • Researcher
Visiting address
  • Stensberggata 26, 0170 Oslo
  • Office number: X220
Phone
  • Mobile: +47 920 32 657
  • Office: +47 672 37 573
E-mail
  • tina.mathisen@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

Tina Mathisen is a researcher at the Department for Childhood, Family and Child Welfare research at NOVA. Her expertise is within migration research with a particular focus on children and young people. Mathisen has extensive experience with fieldwork and interviews with young people and adults, especially in school contexts and local communities. She also researches cooperation between welfare services and children and young people's participation.

Mathisen has a doctorate from the Department of Human Geography at Uppsala University (2020), and a master's degree in sociology from the University of Oslo. The doctoral work explored the place attachment processes and multiple belongigs of young people with a refugee background living in rural areas in Norway. Using participant-centered methods such as in-depth interviews, participant observation, activity diaries and photography, the thesis examined how young former refugees actively created and negotiated belonging in different contexts. The work highlights how place, space and time play a role in how belonging is created, as well as how boundaries of national belonging are (re)produced in everyday life.

Other topics she has studied include the reception and inclusion of migrants in rural areas and in working life, the cultural and creative sector in rural areas, entrepreneurship education, and the cooperation between welfare services and follow-up of children and young people in vulnerable life situations.

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Publications and research

Scientific publications

Mathisen, Tina (2025). Everyday politics of belonging: the ambivalent experience of being young, female, and Muslim in rural Norway. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography.
https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2025.2589762

Mathisen, Tina ; Jansson, Johan; Power, Dominic (2024). Female artists work and creativity in the rural: Beyond core and periphery. Journal of Rural Studies. Vol. 111.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103427

Stenbacka, Susanne; Mathisen, Tina (2023). ‘A spanner in the works’: exploring the relationship between provision of welfare and integration in rural areas. Laine, Jussi P; Rauhut, Daniel; Gruber, Marika (Ed.). Assessing the Social Impact of Immigration in Europe: Renegotiating Remoteness. p. 201-217. Edward Elgar Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803927695.00020

Mathisen, Tina ; Cele, Sofia (2020). "Doing belonging": young former refugees and their active engagement with Norwegian local communities. Fennia. Vol. 198.
https://doi.org/10.11143/fennia.83695

Mathisen, Tina (2020). «Vi er med hverandre fordi vi er utlendinger»: Om (re)produksjonen av kategoriene «utlending» og «norsk» i skolen. Nordisk tidsskrift for ungdomsforskning (NTU).
https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.2535-8162-2020-02-03

Mathisen, Tina ; Stenbacka, Susanne (2015). Unge migranter skaper steder: Translokale og lokale praksiser i rurale områder i Norge og Sverige. Aure, Marit; Berg, Nina Gunnerud; Cruickshank, Jørn; Dale, Britt Engan (Ed.). Med sans for sted. Nyere teorier. p. 213-229. Fagbokforlaget.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4348753



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Research reports

Frøyland, Lars Roar ; Mathisen, Tina ; Smette, Ingrid (2025). Foreldrerestriksjoner og vold i hjemmet. En studie basert på UngVold 2023. ISBN: 9788278948903. 68 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3213078

Skiple, Alida ; Mathisen, Tina ; Bruland, Stine ; Folkvord, Maren Svendsen (2024). Barne- og familieetatens arenafleksible tiltak for barnevernet. En kvalitativ evaluering av arenafleksibelt team barnevern psykisk helse (AFT) og arenafleksibelt behandlingsteam (ABT). ISBN: 9788278948729. 162 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3161548

Mathisen, Tina ; Seeberg, Marie Louise ; Fretheim, Ingeborg Sofie; Harsheim, Ingrid Gaarder; Falch, Nina Skrove (2024). Barn i familier med fluktbakgrunn. Sluttrapport: tiltak for inkludering, medvirkning og tilhørighet. ISBN: 9788278948576. 131 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3129218

Mathisen, Tina ; Seeberg, Marie Louise ; Skiple, Alida (2023). Barn og unge i familier med fluktbakgrunn. Erfaringer med inkludering og tilhørighet . ISBN: 9788278948422. 122 p. OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3105542

Mathisen, Tina ; Hansson, Ulf (2022). Sweden: Dalarna, In Matilde: 13 Reports on Action-Research Results in Each Case Study [eds] Andrea Membretti and Monica Gilli. 25 p. MATILDE.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4580058

Mathisen, Tina ; Susanne, Stenbacka (2021). Country report Sweden. In: 10 Country Reports on Qualitative Impacts of TCNs [ed] Jussi Laine. 17 p. University of Eastern Finland.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5130966

Riemsdijk, Micheline van; Stenbacka, Susanne; Hansson, Ulf; Klerby, Anna; Mathisen, Tina (2021). Sweden. In Matilde deliverable 3.1 and 4.1. Country-based policy briefings on migration-related social and economic policies [eds.] Simone Baglioni, Maria Luisa Caputo, Jussi Laine and Andrea Membretti. 25 p. MATILDE.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4974326

Stenbacka, Susanne; Mathisen, Tina ; Macuchova, Zuzana; Hansson, Ulf (2021). Sweden. In, Matilde, 13 quantitative briefing on the case studies, Deliverable 5.2 [ed.] Andrea Membretti. 29 p. MATILDE.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4763382

Mathisen, Tina (2020). Between being and longing: Young former refugees’ experiences of place attachment and multiple belongings. ISBN: 9789150628005. 148 p. Uppsala universitet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4023658

Johansen, Vegard; Mathisen, Tina (2012). Entreprenørskap i utdanningen og oppnåelse av læringsmål. ISBN: 9788273567123. 80 p. Østlandsforskning.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4457775



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Dissemination

Skiple, Alida ; Mathisen, Tina (2025). How do families in vulnerable situations experience interagency collaboration?. International Child and Family Conference. University of Bristol.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3347245

Mathisen, Tina (2025). Barneperspektivet i bosettingsprosessen: Hva sier barna selv?. Foredrag. Nettverk for flyktning-og bosettingsarbeidet i Innlandet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3629137

Mathisen, Tina (2025). Children and young people in migration and integration processes. Teacher training course: Education and Social Change: Childhood and Youth Studies. the Department of Education (IPED), UV, UiO.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4270729

Mathisen, Tina (2025). Deltaker i panelsamtale arrangert av IMDi: Hvordan ivareta barns beste i integreringen?. Panelsamtale. Integrerings- og mangfoldsdirektoratet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4456028

Folkvord, Maren Svendsen; Bell, Justyna ; Mathisen, Tina ; Huang, Lihong (2024). Multilingualism - resource or barrier for supporting children's educational pathways?. Nordic Migration Research Conference.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5150601

Mathisen, Tina ; Fretheim, Ingeborg Sofie (2024). Barn i familier med fluktbakgrunn: tiltak for inkludering, medvirkning og tilhørighet. Lanseringsseminar. NOVA, OsloMet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5189352

Mathisen, Tina (2024). Children and young people in migration and integration processes. Teacher training course: Education and Social Change: Childhood and Youth Studies. the Department of Education (IPED), UV, UiO.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4623487

Mathisen, Tina (2024). Barn og unge i familier med fluktbakgrunn. Tiltak for inkludering og tilhørighet. Ungdatakonferansen 2024: Mangfoldige ungdomsliv. NOVA, OsloMet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5025161

Mathisen, Tina (2024). Barn og unge, migrasjon, stedstilknytning og tilhørighet. Barnelivsseminar. Barneliv og profesjonsutøvelse (Childlife).
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4546403

Mathisen, Tina ; Fretheim, Ingeborg Sofie (2024). Hvordan kan kommuner best ta imot barn og unge med fluktbakgrunn?. IMDis regionale konferanse i Telemark. Integrerings- og mangfoldsdirektoratet.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4370986



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