Kort om
Lena Magnusson Turner is a professor in urban and social geography. Her research focuses on residential mobility and life course, segregation and housing choice, geography and social justice and on urban and housing models.
In 1994, she completed her Ph.D. thesis in social and economic geography, about residential vacancy chain. Later she has been involved in research on housing careers and economic progress for immigrants, housing preferences and demand sensitive rent setting, social cohesion and poverty, household mobility on tight housing markets, conversion of public housing and residualisation on the housing market. Lena Magnusson Turner has been the Swedish partner in the project “Study on housing and exclusion: welfare policies, housing provision and labour market” financed by the European Commission, and member in the Nordic project “Nordic welfare states and the dynamics and effects of ethnic segregation” financed by NORFACE. Lena Magnusson Turner has been a member of the ENHR Coordination Committee since 2008. Since 2010, she works at NOVA, Oslo and Oslo University. At present she leads the research project ”Social Inequality and housing over the life course: good chances or lucky outcomes?” financed by the Research Council of Norway.
Fagområder
Vitenskapsdisipliner
Emner
Kvantitative forskningsmetoder Boligmarked Demografi Sosial ulikhet Urbane studier Samfunnsgeografi Byforskning
Forskningsgrupper
Forskningsprosjekter
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BOVEL – Senter for bolig- og velferdsforskning
BOVEL skal være et knutepunkt for forskning på bolig- og velferdsspørsmål i Norge.
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En rimelig sjanse? Hvordan geografi former livsmuligheter (FAIR)
I dette prosjektet undersøker vi hvordan den geografiske konteksten som omgir folk i ulike stadier av livet, former deres sosiale og økonomiske utsikter.
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Innvandreres arbeidsmarkedstilknytning i Norge: betydningen av institusjonelle og kontekstuelle faktorer (UPMIN)
Det overordnede forskningsspørsmålet for UPMIN-prosjektet er: Hva slags institusjonelle og kontekstuelle faktorer fremmer innvandrernes integrering i det norske arbeidslivet?
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Sosial ulikhet og bolig i et livsløpsperspektiv - flaks eller dyktighet?
Sosial ulikhet har betydning for hvilke valgmuligheter ulike familier har på boligmarkedet og hvor man ender opp med å bo.
Publikasjoner og forskningsresultater
Vitenskapelige publikasjoner
Galster, George; Magnusson Turner, Lena; Santiago, Anna Maria (2022). Decomposing educational disparities between immigrants and natives in Oslo: how gender, parents, and place matter. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies .
Sandlie, Hans Christian; Magnusson Turner, Lena; Nordvik, Viggo (2022). Boligmarkeder og boligkarrierer. Frønes, Ivar; Kjølsrød, Lise (Red.). Det norske samfunn - Bind 3. 44. s. 243-268. Gyldendal Akademisk.
Galster, George; Magnusson Turner, Lena; Santiago, Anna Maria (2021). Neighbourhood selection by natives and immigrants: Homophily or limited spatial search?. Housing Studies .
Ugreninov, Elisabeth; Magnusson Turner, Lena (2021). Next to Nothing: The Impact of the Norwegian Introduction Programme on Female Immigrants’ Labour Market Inclusion. Journal of Social Policy .
Wessel, Terje; Magnusson Turner, Lena
(2020).
The migration pathway to economic mobility: Does gender matter?.
16 s.
Population, Space and Place
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http://hdl.handle.net/10852/81942
Sørvoll, Jardar; Nordvik, Viggo; Magnusson Turner, Lena
(2020).
Bostedssegregasjon og politiske strategier. Erfaringer fra Norge og Oslo.
Samfundsøkonomen
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Vol. 38.
https://www.djoef-forlag.dk/openaccess/samf/samfdo...
Magnusson Turner, Lena; Östh, John (2020). Trap or opportunity—What role does geography play in the use of cash for childcare?. 15 s. Population, Space and Place .
Galster, George; Magnusson Turner, Lena (2019). Status Aversion, Attraction and Discrepancy as Drivers of Neighborhood Selection. City & Community .
Nordvik, Viggo; Magnusson Turner, Lena; Friedrichs, Jürgen (2019). Neighbourhood Poverty And Individual Earnings: Tales Of Two (Norwegian) Cities. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie . Vol. 111.
Magnusson Turner, Lena; Wessel, Terje
(2019).
Housing market filtering in the Oslo region:pro-market housing policies in a Nordic welfare state context.
International journal of housing policy
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http://hdl.handle.net/10852/68581
