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13. October 2020Blog post

Is a nurse who migrates to work abroad an expat?

Drawing on their research with Polish and Filipino nurses Marta Bivand Erdal and Lubomiła Korzeniewska reflect on the use of migration terminology and the implicit roles gender and race play in labelling people on the move.

25. September 202026. September 2020Blog post

Polish nurses talk about attitudes towards death and dying

Elżbieta Goździak writes about how working in Norwegian nursing homes has affected Polish nurses’ attitudes towards death and dying.

23. June 20201. October 2020Blog post

“Let’s talk about language”: Swedes in Norway

Scandinavian languages: mutually intelligible?

23. April 20208. September 2020Blog post

Migration, welfare, WELLMIG, and the pandemic

The new coronavirus pandemic has changed all our lives, all our societies – globally and all at once, and it continues to do so in new and unpredictable ways.

15. April 20201. October 2020Blog post

Work-life balance in care migration

For many Polish nurses, migration to Norway and attaining what they see as a Norwegian work-life balance has provided a possibility to rethink their nursing identity and practices.

7. April 20208. September 2020Blog post

Emotions, Affects, and Care Migration

A blog post from Marek Pawlak about emotions and migration research – and differences between Polish and Norwegian nursing homes.

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2. March 20208. September 2020Conferences

Cancelled: WELLMIG final conference “Migration and Care Labor in Europe”

The WELLMIG Final Conference: Migration and care labor in Europe: Theory, research, and politics is cancelled.

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25. February 20208. September 2020Blog post

The regimes of integration and housing

Sandlie has investigated the housing situation among nurses from Sweden, Poland, and the Philippines in Norway.

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14. January 20208. September 2020Book corner - What are we reading?

Our favourite reads in 2019

The WELLMIG team again takes stock of our reading during the past year. As in previous years, we have read numerous academic publications to inform our project and our own writing on migration, but in addition, we have also read lots of books for pleasure and entertainment. Below are a few we want to highlight.

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19. November 20198. September 2020Blog post

New Article about Migrant Nurses in Norway

Looking past the typical categorizations of national identity, migrant, or nurse.

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PROJECT DETAILS

Title: WELLMIG – Migration for welfare: nurses within three regimes of immigration and integration into the Norwegian welfare state

Project leader: Marie Louise Seeberg, NOVA, OsloMet

Contact information:
mlsee@oslomet.no

Funding: FRIPRO, Research Council of Norway

Project period: 09.01.16 – 11.2.21

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