Anne Sigfrid Grønseth
Biographic Data
| ID | 98479 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Sigfrid Grønseth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne Sigfrid |
| FAMILY NAME | Grønseth |
| SIGNATURE | GRØNSETH A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Inland Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3248-2617 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Struggling for home where home is not meant to be
This article focuses on how asylum seekers in Norway struggle to create a sense of home within a physical and political environment that puts significant challenges to their efforts to do so. Based on a national survey and fieldwork, we demonstrate that poor housing and the political derived marginality challenge existential and material home-making processes, thus making it an ambiguous and strenuous experience. This view is rooted in a critical…
Empathy and Ritual Practices
Migrating rituals
By examining a funeral ritual devised by Tamil refugees living north of the Arctic Circle in Norway, I argue that the study of migrant rituals offers new insights into migrants’ senses of belonging, identity and wellbeing. Within a context of the exclusion and inclusion of cultural minorities, I describe the process of creating a funeral ritual that involves encounters between local Norwegians and Tamil refugees. The funeral followed the sudden d…
Being Human, Being Migrant
Migrant experiences accentuate general aspects of the human condition. Therefore, this volume explores migrant’s movements not only as geographical movements from here to there but also as movements that constitute an embodied, cognitive, and existential experience of living “in between” or on the “borderlands” between differently figured life-worlds. Focusing on memories, nostalgia, the here-and-now social experiences of daily living, and the ho…
Tamil Refugees in Pain
This article discusses issues of power, stigmatisation and marginalisation associated with social structures and values promoted as part of a welfare project of individual rights and solidarity. Based on my fieldwork in northern Norway, the encounters of Tamil refugees with the Norwegian welfare state are described, focusing on the difficulties they experience in consulting health officials in the diagnosis and treatment of various aches and pain…
Cosmopolitanism in Practice
Social and cultural anthropology. The key concepts (2nd edn) by Rapport, Nigel and Joanna Overing
Bokomtaler
Ethnographic Humanism
Tamils' Quest for Well-Being
Experiences of Tensions in Re-orienting Selves
Research among refugee populations tends to focus on the dramas of war and trauma. This paper instead brings attention to the more mundane everyday aspects of Tamil refugee resettlement in a fishing village along the arctic coast of Norway. Here, many Tamils experience various diffuse aches and pains that the local health personnel find difficult to diagnose and treat. In response to the difficulties, this study aims to investigate health and sic…
In Search of Community
Over the past ten years, Tamil refugees have settled in marginal fishing communities along the Arctic coastline of northern Norway. This article focuses on social aspects of Tamil resettlement and on the refugees' struggle for well-being. Tamils in these communities often experience diffuse aches and pains that are difficult for health workers to diagnose and treat. This article argues for the need to understand such health problems as embedded i…
In Search of Community
Over the past ten years, Tamil refugees have settled in marginal fishing communities along the Arctic coastline of northern Norway. This article focuses on social aspects of Tamil resettlement and on the refugees' struggle for well-being. Tamils in these communities often experience diffuse aches and pains that are difficult for health workers to diagnose and treat. This article argues for the need to understand such health problems as embedded i…
Experiences of Tensions in Re-orienting Selves
Research among refugee populations tends to focus on the dramas of war and trauma. This paper instead brings attention to the more mundane everyday aspects of Tamil refugee resettlement in a fishing village along the arctic coast of Norway. Here, many Tamils experience various diffuse aches and pains that the local health personnel find difficult to diagnose and treat. In response to the difficulties, this study aims to investigate health and sic…
Migrating rituals
By examining a funeral ritual devised by Tamil refugees living north of the Arctic Circle in Norway, I argue that the study of migrant rituals offers new insights into migrants’ senses of belonging, identity and wellbeing. Within a context of the exclusion and inclusion of cultural minorities, I describe the process of creating a funeral ritual that involves encounters between local Norwegians and Tamil refugees. The funeral followed the sudden d…
Ethnographic Humanism
Tamils' Quest for Well-Being
In Search of Community
Over the past ten years, Tamil refugees have settled in marginal fishing communities along the Arctic coastline of northern Norway. This article focuses on social aspects of Tamil resettlement and on the refugees' struggle for well-being. Tamils in these communities often experience diffuse aches and pains that are difficult for health workers to diagnose and treat. This article argues for the need to understand such health problems as embedded i…
Experiences of Tensions in Re-orienting Selves
Research among refugee populations tends to focus on the dramas of war and trauma. This paper instead brings attention to the more mundane everyday aspects of Tamil refugee resettlement in a fishing village along the arctic coast of Norway. Here, many Tamils experience various diffuse aches and pains that the local health personnel find difficult to diagnose and treat. In response to the difficulties, this study aims to investigate health and sic…
Ethnographic Humanism
Tamils' Quest for Well-Being
Bokomtaler
Social and cultural anthropology. The key concepts (2nd edn) by Rapport, Nigel and Joanna Overing
Tamil Refugees in Pain
This article discusses issues of power, stigmatisation and marginalisation associated with social structures and values promoted as part of a welfare project of individual rights and solidarity. Based on my fieldwork in northern Norway, the encounters of Tamil refugees with the Norwegian welfare state are described, focusing on the difficulties they experience in consulting health officials in the diagnosis and treatment of various aches and pain…
Cosmopolitanism in Practice
Being Human, Being Migrant
Migrant experiences accentuate general aspects of the human condition. Therefore, this volume explores migrant’s movements not only as geographical movements from here to there but also as movements that constitute an embodied, cognitive, and existential experience of living “in between” or on the “borderlands” between differently figured life-worlds. Focusing on memories, nostalgia, the here-and-now social experiences of daily living, and the ho…
Migrating rituals
By examining a funeral ritual devised by Tamil refugees living north of the Arctic Circle in Norway, I argue that the study of migrant rituals offers new insights into migrants’ senses of belonging, identity and wellbeing. Within a context of the exclusion and inclusion of cultural minorities, I describe the process of creating a funeral ritual that involves encounters between local Norwegians and Tamil refugees. The funeral followed the sudden d…
Empathy and Ritual Practices
Struggling for home where home is not meant to be
This article focuses on how asylum seekers in Norway struggle to create a sense of home within a physical and political environment that puts significant challenges to their efforts to do so. Based on a national survey and fieldwork, we demonstrate that poor housing and the political derived marginality challenge existential and material home-making processes, thus making it an ambiguous and strenuous experience. This view is rooted in a critical…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Refugee (4 works) · Tamil (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 works)