Attitudes to asylum-seekers, immigrants, and immigration
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We are involved in several projects related to Norwegians鈥� attitudes to asylum-seekers, immigrants, and immigration.
As part of our long-term involvement with the Norwegian Citizen Panel, we have studied Norwegians鈥� perceptions of in collaboration with researchers based in the UK. Following the influx of Ukrainian refugees, we have also studied similarities and differences in the to the two major influxes of asylum-seekers to Norway, in collaboration with Lise L. Bj氓nes酶y (Department of Government). 聽
As part of the project "Imagining and experiencing the refugee crisis鈥�,聽we collaborated with聽PI Susanne Bygnes聽(Department of Sociology) and聽Elisabeth Ivarsflaten聽(Department of Government) on a project in which we look at how Norwegians have experienced the establishment of asylum reception centers in their neighborhoods. We are interested in the types of contact that has occurred between people in the , and what consequences constructing immigration as a phenomenon may have.