Indigenous in the City

Indigenous peoples worldwide are becoming increasingly urbanized, particularly the young indigenous population. Cultures and identities that were once pushed to the rural peripheries, now have to survive and grow in an urban context. The NUORGÁV project (2015 – 2022) investigates urban indigenous politics, with a special eye to how young indigenous people organize and attempt to influence the provision of services to the urban indigenous populations.

NUORGÁV is an international research project that gathers and compares data from four countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. The project is focused on the situation of the border-transcending Sámi nation.

The project is a cooperation between the institute NIBR under the Oslo and Akershus University College , the Nord University, and the Arctic Centre under the University of Lapland. It is financed by the Norwegian Research Council’s Programme for Sámi Studies.

The project ended in 2022, with the publication of the book “An urban future for Sápmi?” (Berghahn, 2022). Read more about the book and the articles produced by the project under “products” at this website.