Ingunn Bjørkhaug
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 134683 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ingunn Bjørkhaug |
| NOMBRES | Ingunn |
| APELLIDO | Bjørkhaug |
| FIRMA | BJØRKHAUG I |
| AFILIACIONES | The Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8962-2740 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Tensions and coexistence
Whether refugees are met with resistance or acceptance by the host population is critical to the trajectory of refugee adaptations. This article analyses the narratives of members of the Ugandan host community living in and around the Nakivale Refugee Settlement, exploring key elements in positive and negative narratives of refugee presence. We show that members of the host population often recognize the economic and social benefits of refugee pr…
Navigating “Promising Victimhood
Executive Summary As the global refugee population continues to expand, resettlement opportunities remain scarce, accessible only to a select few. Scholarly literature has increasingly drawn attention to the opaque bureaucratic processes, often referred to as “black boxes,” that govern resettlement selection, revealing that the decision-making practices determining which refugees are chosen for resettlement are still not well understood. This stu…
Navigating Vulnerability and Integration
Resettlement is a limited resource available to only a fraction of refugees. Selection criteria, set by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and receiving States, may impose conflicting demands on refugees to exhibit both vulnerability and integration potential to be chosen, a phenomenon termed “promising victimhood”. Drawing on empirical data from interviews with 21 personnel from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees an…
Revisiting the Refugee–Host Relationship in Nakivale Refugee Settlement
Executive Summary Uganda has long promoted refugee self-reliance as a sustainable livelihood strategy with progressive land-allocation and free-movement-for-work policies. Framed as a dialogue with related Oxford University Refugee Studies Centre (“the Centre”) research on refugee economies, this article explores sustainable solutions that benefit refugees as well as the host populations that receive them. It explores the self-reliance opportunit…
Tales of Loss and Sorrow
This article discusses methodological challenges in refugee studies through a case study of interactions between refugees and host-population in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda. The article suggest that one solution to the challenges identified is to make use of James C. Scott’s theory of private and public transcripts to form an argument that public stories of victimhood are utilized strategically as a weapon of the weak to navigate the terr…
Displacement, Belonging, and Land Rights in Grand Gedeh, Liberia
Conflicts over local land rights between groups considered as "sons of the soil" and newcomers such as refugees can trigger autochthony-inspired violence. However, such conflicts are not always manifested, even when the conditions are in place. The question we explore in this article is whether such conflicts are less likely to emerge if the "other" is from a group with a longstanding bond of interethnic allegiance with the host community. Based …
Child Mobility in West Africa
Over the past decade, the extensive mobility of children in West Africa has been systematically mis-specified as child trafficking. This mis-specification is a result of political framing that aims to attract funding to the activities of international agencies and NGOs. Attracting funding towards a group of relocating children that are often in critical need of support is in principle admirable. However, the simplifications resulting from framing…
Revisiting the Refugee–Host Relationship in Nakivale Refugee Settlement
Executive Summary Uganda has long promoted refugee self-reliance as a sustainable livelihood strategy with progressive land-allocation and free-movement-for-work policies. Framed as a dialogue with related Oxford University Refugee Studies Centre (“the Centre”) research on refugee economies, this article explores sustainable solutions that benefit refugees as well as the host populations that receive them. It explores the self-reliance opportunit…
Displacement, Belonging, and Land Rights in Grand Gedeh, Liberia
Conflicts over local land rights between groups considered as "sons of the soil" and newcomers such as refugees can trigger autochthony-inspired violence. However, such conflicts are not always manifested, even when the conditions are in place. The question we explore in this article is whether such conflicts are less likely to emerge if the "other" is from a group with a longstanding bond of interethnic allegiance with the host community. Based …
Tales of Loss and Sorrow
This article discusses methodological challenges in refugee studies through a case study of interactions between refugees and host-population in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda. The article suggest that one solution to the challenges identified is to make use of James C. Scott’s theory of private and public transcripts to form an argument that public stories of victimhood are utilized strategically as a weapon of the weak to navigate the terr…
Navigating Vulnerability and Integration
Resettlement is a limited resource available to only a fraction of refugees. Selection criteria, set by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and receiving States, may impose conflicting demands on refugees to exhibit both vulnerability and integration potential to be chosen, a phenomenon termed “promising victimhood”. Drawing on empirical data from interviews with 21 personnel from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees an…
Child Mobility in West Africa
Over the past decade, the extensive mobility of children in West Africa has been systematically mis-specified as child trafficking. This mis-specification is a result of political framing that aims to attract funding to the activities of international agencies and NGOs. Attracting funding towards a group of relocating children that are often in critical need of support is in principle admirable. However, the simplifications resulting from framing…
Tales of Loss and Sorrow
This article discusses methodological challenges in refugee studies through a case study of interactions between refugees and host-population in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda. The article suggest that one solution to the challenges identified is to make use of James C. Scott’s theory of private and public transcripts to form an argument that public stories of victimhood are utilized strategically as a weapon of the weak to navigate the terr…
Displacement, Belonging, and Land Rights in Grand Gedeh, Liberia
Conflicts over local land rights between groups considered as "sons of the soil" and newcomers such as refugees can trigger autochthony-inspired violence. However, such conflicts are not always manifested, even when the conditions are in place. The question we explore in this article is whether such conflicts are less likely to emerge if the "other" is from a group with a longstanding bond of interethnic allegiance with the host community. Based …
Revisiting the Refugee–Host Relationship in Nakivale Refugee Settlement
Executive Summary Uganda has long promoted refugee self-reliance as a sustainable livelihood strategy with progressive land-allocation and free-movement-for-work policies. Framed as a dialogue with related Oxford University Refugee Studies Centre (“the Centre”) research on refugee economies, this article explores sustainable solutions that benefit refugees as well as the host populations that receive them. It explores the self-reliance opportunit…
Navigating “Promising Victimhood
Executive Summary As the global refugee population continues to expand, resettlement opportunities remain scarce, accessible only to a select few. Scholarly literature has increasingly drawn attention to the opaque bureaucratic processes, often referred to as “black boxes,” that govern resettlement selection, revealing that the decision-making practices determining which refugees are chosen for resettlement are still not well understood. This stu…
Navigating Vulnerability and Integration
Resettlement is a limited resource available to only a fraction of refugees. Selection criteria, set by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and receiving States, may impose conflicting demands on refugees to exhibit both vulnerability and integration potential to be chosen, a phenomenon termed “promising victimhood”. Drawing on empirical data from interviews with 21 personnel from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees an…
Tensions and coexistence
Whether refugees are met with resistance or acceptance by the host population is critical to the trajectory of refugee adaptations. This article analyses the narratives of members of the Ugandan host community living in and around the Nakivale Refugee Settlement, exploring key elements in positive and negative narratives of refugee presence. We show that members of the host population often recognize the economic and social benefits of refugee pr…
Law (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Refugee (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Geography (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 obras) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (3 obras) · Development economics (3 obras) · Economic growth (3 obras)