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At the Edges of the Welfare State: When Front-Line Bureaucrats Meet Migrant Roma Beggars in Norway

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-05-21 Categories: English

Romanian Roma who beg and perform street work represent the most visible and acute form of poverty in today’s Norway, but as EU citizens operating outside formal labour markets, they have limited access to social rights and services. Using a stre…

Suspicion of Truth: a Genealogical Analysis of Credibility Assessments Within Swedish Migration Authorities

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-05-21 Categories: English

This article is concerned with the institutionalisation of suspicion within migration control regimes, and more specifically the Swedish migration authorities’ practices of credibility assessments from a historical governmentality perspective. Th…

Belonging on the Move: A Multi-Method Exploration of Embodied Affect, Place Attachment, and Transnational Mobility in Migrant Lives in Norway

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-05-21 Categories: English

The study investigates how adult migrants to Norway develop a sense of belonging through both attachment and mobility. Building on transnational and mobilities perspectives, it emphasizes embodied affect—the sensory and emotional experiences aris…

The Rightward Shift: Transformation of Global Migration Policy and Discourse

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-04-30 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book Review of Boccagni, Paolo (ed.) 2023. The Handbook on Home and Migration. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 702.

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-04-30 Categories: English

The main aim of the recent Handbook on Home and Migration was to overcome the case study-based fragmentation of the discussion on homemaking among people on the move, and to elevate it to a substantive thematic, conceptual and theoretical level. This i…

Book Review of Helms, Elissa and Pulkkinen, Tuija. (eds.) 2023. Borders of desire: Gender and sexuality at the eastern borders of Europe. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 181.

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-04-30 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book review of Martin, Lawrence M. 2024. Foreigners in their own country: Identity and rejection in France. New York: Berghahn. pp. 268.

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-04-30 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book Review of Horsti, Karina 2023. Survival and Witness at Europe’s Border: The Afterlives of a Disaster. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University. pp. 286.

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-04-30 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Precarious Residence? A study on the Impact of Restrictive Migration Policy on Migrants’ Subjective Well-Being and Stress

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-02-12 Categories: English

Migration policy in the Nordic welfare states is increasingly marked by restrictiveness. Although research has studied the consequences of this policy trend, there is limited knowledge about how it affects stress levels and the well-being of migrants. …

Nordic Exceptionalism? How Scandinavian Border and Coast Guards Rationalize Their Participation in Frontex Operations

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-01-22 Categories: English

This paper examines how Scandinavian border and coast guards seconded to Frontex operations understand their participation in them. Drawing on interviews with Swedish and Danish border and coast guards, the paper introduces the notion of Nordic excepti…

Numbers, Ignorance and Swedish Migration Policy

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-01-22 Categories: English

Starting in 2015, Sweden embarked upon a series of policy changes designed to reduce the number of migrants arriving to Sweden. Even though the effect of these policies on migrant arrivals remained unclear and a number of societal actors warned of nega…

Book Review of Solano, Priscilla. 2024. Shelter on the Journey: Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Migration. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 188 pp.

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-01-22 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book review of Hübinette, Tobias. 2024. Svenska Asiater: Asiatisk rasism och framväxten av en ny minoritet [Asian Swedes: Asian racism and the emergence of a new minority]. Stockholm: Verbal. 287 pp.

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-01-22 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book Review of Eick, Gianna Maria. 2024. Welfare Chauvinism in Europe: How Education, Economy and Culture Shape Public Opinion. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. pp. 176.

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-01-15 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book Review of Keskinen, Suvi. 2022. Mobilising the Racialised ‘others’: Postethnic Activism, Neoliberalisation and Racial Politics. London: Routledge. 164 pp.

Silje Andresen Published: 2025-01-15 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book Review of Ahlholm, Maria, Piippo, Irina and Portaankorva-Koivisto, Päivi (Eds.) 2023. Vastasaapuneet Luokkahuoneissa: Ikkunoita Valmistavaan Opetukseen Ja Monikieliseen Kouluun. Tampere: Vastapaino, 376 pp.

Silje Andresen Published: 2024-12-03 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book Review of Hoegaerts, Josephine, Liimatainen, Tuire, Hekanaho, Laura and Peterson, Elizabeth (Eds.) 2022. Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. 373 pp.

Silje Andresen Published: 2024-12-03 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Engaging with Three Predicaments of Transnational Migration Research in the Postcolonial Condition

Silje Andresen Published: 2024-12-03 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Correction: Gender and Social Contacts: Labour Market Entry Among Refugee and Family Reunion Migrants in Sweden

Silje Andresen Published: 2024-12-03 Categories: English

This article details a correction to: Weber, R. (2024) ‘Gender and Social Contacts: Labour Market Entry Among Refugee and Family Reunion Migrants in Sweden’, Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 14(3), 4. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3…

Book Review of O’Regan, Michael (ed.) 2023. Backpacking Culture and Mobilities: Independent and Nomadic Travel. Bristol and Jackson: Channel View Publications. 299 pp.

Silje Andresen Published: 2024-09-11 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book Review of Mau, Steffen 2023. Sorting Machines. The Reinvention of the Border in the 21st Century. Cambridge: Polity Press. 174 pp.

Silje Andresen Published: 2024-09-11 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book Review of Wilhelmsen, Terese, Berg, Ellen, Evensen, Kristin V., Solstad, Gerd Marie, and Thorjussen, Ingfrid M. (eds.) 2023. Bevegelsesfellesskap i oppveksten: Kritiske perspektiver på inkludering og mangfold [Movement Communities in Childhood: Critical Perspectives on Inclusion and Diversity]. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget

Silje Andresen Published: 2024-07-03 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book review of Castañeda, Heide. 2023. Migration and health: Critical perspectives. London & New York: Routledge. 166 pp.

Silje Andresen Published: 2024-07-03 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Book Review of Loftsdóttir, Kristín, Hipfl, Brigitte and Ponzanesi, Sandra (eds.) 2024. Creating Europe from the Margins: Mobilities and Racism in Postcolonial Europe. London: Routledge. 216 pp.

Silje Andresen Published: 2024-07-03 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Gaza and the Right to Have Rights

Silje Andresen Published: 2024-03-28 Categories: English

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Author: Silje Andresen

At the Edges of the Welfare State: When Front-Line Bureaucrats Meet Migrant Roma Beggars in Norway

Suspicion of Truth: a Genealogical Analysis of Credibility Assessments Within Swedish Migration Authorities

Belonging on the Move: A Multi-Method Exploration of Embodied Affect, Place Attachment, and Transnational Mobility in Migrant Lives in Norway

The Rightward Shift: Transformation of Global Migration Policy and Discourse

Book Review of Boccagni, Paolo (ed.) 2023. <em>The Handbook on Home and Migration</em>. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 702.

Book Review of Helms, Elissa and Pulkkinen, Tuija. (eds.) 2023. <em>Borders of desire: Gender and sexuality at the eastern borders of Europe</em>. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 181.

Book review of Martin, Lawrence M. 2024. <em>Foreigners in their own country: Identity and rejection in France</em>. New York: Berghahn. pp. 268.

Book Review of Horsti, Karina 2023. <em>Survival and Witness at Europe’s Border: The Afterlives of a Disaster</em>. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University. pp. 286.

Precarious Residence? A study on the Impact of Restrictive Migration Policy on Migrants’ Subjective Well-Being and Stress

Nordic Exceptionalism? How Scandinavian Border and Coast Guards Rationalize Their Participation in Frontex Operations

Numbers, Ignorance and Swedish Migration Policy

Book Review of Solano, Priscilla. 2024. <em>Shelter on the Journey: Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Migration</em>. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 188 pp.

Book review of Hübinette, Tobias. 2024. <em>Svenska Asiater: Asiatisk rasism och framväxten av en ny minoritet [Asian Swedes: Asian racism and the emergence of a new minority]</em>. Stockholm: Verbal. 287 pp.

Book Review of Eick, Gianna Maria. 2024. <em>Welfare Chauvinism in Europe: How Education, Economy and Culture Shape Public Opinion</em>. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. pp. 176.

Book Review of Keskinen, Suvi. 2022. <em>Mobilising the Racialised ‘others’: Postethnic Activism, Neoliberalisation and Racial Politics</em>. London: Routledge. 164 pp.

Book Review of Ahlholm, Maria, Piippo, Irina and Portaankorva-Koivisto, Päivi (Eds.) 2023. <em>Vastasaapuneet Luokkahuoneissa: Ikkunoita Valmistavaan Opetukseen Ja Monikieliseen Kouluun</em>. Tampere: Vastapaino, 376 pp.

Book Review of Hoegaerts, Josephine, Liimatainen, Tuire, Hekanaho, Laura and Peterson, Elizabeth (Eds.) 2022. <em>Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality</em>. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. 373 pp.

Engaging with Three Predicaments of Transnational Migration Research in the Postcolonial Condition

Correction: Gender and Social Contacts: Labour Market Entry Among Refugee and Family Reunion Migrants in Sweden

Book Review of O’Regan, Michael (ed.) 2023. <em>Backpacking Culture and Mobilities: Independent and Nomadic Travel</em>. Bristol and Jackson: Channel View Publications. 299 pp.

Book Review of Mau, Steffen 2023. <em>Sorting Machines. The Reinvention of the Border in the 21st Century</em>. Cambridge: Polity Press. 174 pp.

Book review of Castañeda, Heide. 2023. <em>Migration and health: Critical perspectives</em>. London & New York: Routledge. 166 pp.

Book Review of Loftsdóttir, Kristín, Hipfl, Brigitte and Ponzanesi, Sandra (eds.) 2024. <em>Creating Europe from the Margins: Mobilities and Racism in Postcolonial Europe</em>. London: Routledge. 216 pp.

Gaza and the Right to Have Rights