Helga Eggebø
Biographic Data
| ID | 277616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helga Eggebø |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helga |
| FAMILY NAME | Eggebø |
| SIGNATURE | EGGEBØ H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nordland Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8502-6645 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Unrequited love? Rejection experiences and symbolic messages in encounters with immigration regulation
In this article, we explore the symbolic and emotional dimension of immigration regulation from the perspective of immigrants themselves. Drawing from a broader study, we present the in-depth narratives of four highly educated immigrants in Norway, belonging to different admission categories. These narratives reveal rejection experiences—real, vicarious, symbolic and anticipated—stemming from interaction with the state via immigration regulation.…
Mot en mer marginal velferdsmodell: Innstramninger i innvandreres tilgang til sosiale rettigheter etter 2015
I kjølvannet av asylforliket i 2015 ble det gjort en rekke innstramninger i innvandreres tilgang til norske trygdeordninger, og dette er den første gangen den norske folketrygdloven er blitt endret utelukkende av innvandringspolitiske hensyn. I denne artikkelen analyserer vi disse politiske prosessene og spør hvordan problemforståelser og logikker fra innvandringsfeltet har påvirket trygdepolitikken. Datamaterialet består av politiske dokumenter,…
It must be really difficult for the less privileged'. How class affects the legal consciousness of immigrants in Norway
Kollektiv analyse av innvandringspolitikk: Feministiske forskingsmetodar i praksis
I denne artikkelen tek me utgangspunkt i omgrepet «sakteforsking» og utforskar korleis ein kan jobba med kritisk tenking og kreativitet gjennom kollektive analyseprosessar. Caset er ein analyseworkshop me gjennomførte hausten 2022, inspirert av kollektiv kvalitativ analyse (KKA) (Eggebø 2020b) og kva er «problemet»?-tilnærminga (WPR) (Bacchi og Goodwin 2016). Her deltok ei forskargruppe på fem personar i arbeidet med å analysera politiske dokumen…
Do integration requirements undermine egalitarianism?
For decades, policy makers have expressed concerns about immigration potentially undermining the welfare state.In this chapter, we examine a new income requirement for obtaining permanent residence.We argue that this requirement that was meant to rescue the fiscal sustainability of the welfare state may upon closer scrutiny create and exacerbate both socioeconomic and political inequalities, paradoxically resulting in the undermining of the egali…
Everything but the Marriage Certificate: Unmarried Partners in Norwegian Immigration Regulation
Pandemic border closures separated previously transnational couples, including unmarried partners, revealing under-researched forms of transnational family life. From this point of departure, we reexamine Norwegian family immigration regulation for unmarried partners from the 1980s onwards. Societal norms around coupledom have shifted toward Giddens’s “pure relationship.” Yet, immigration regulations have focused on “problematic marriages,” such …
Gaps and Silences: Gender and Climate Policies in the Global North
For decades, feminist activists and scholars have stressed the importance of integrating gender perspectives into the most defining challenge of our time: the climate disaster. In this article, we analyze official Norwegian policy documents in the context of regional and supra-national levels. We identify a lack of connection between gender equality policy and climate policy in the Norwegian policy documents that is symptomatic of a general silen…
Diskriminering og sosial ekskludering av skeive med innvandrerbakgrunn
Denne artikkelen presenterer funn fra en undersøkelse om levekår blant skeive med innvandrerbakgrunn i Norge. Med utgangspunkt i et interseksjonelt perspektiv analyserer vi 251 respondenters erfaringer med diskriminering og sosial ekskludering. Resultatene viser at over halvparten rapporterte om negative kommentarer eller handlinger fordi de bryter med normer for kjønn eller seksualitet, og noen flere på grunn av innvandrerbakgrunn. Om lag 1 av 3…
Mer midlertidighet: Innvandringspolitikken Etter Asylforliket
Hvilke konsekvenser får det når innvandringspolitikken preges av stadig mer midlertidighet? Dette spørsmålet ble ikke utredet og knapt diskutert i forbindelse med omfattende politiske endringer etter asylforliket. Denne artikkelen setter søkelys på midlertidighetens konsekvenser for individet og for samfunnsmessige målsetninger om integrering. Vi analyserer to endringer som enkeltvis og samlet medfører mer midlertidighet: 1) inntektskrav for perm…
Land, History and People: Older people’s Stories about Meaningful Activities and Social Relations in Later Life
Family Migration and Integration: The Need for a New Research Agenda
This article investigates the link between family migration and integration. It is based on a literature review of existing research across the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, focusing on examples from Denmark and Norway. Much of the existing literature on family migration and integration analyses legal changes and policy arguments. Focusing on literature about integration and regulation outcomes, we identi…
Anita Schjølset (red.): Gender i forsvaret
A Real Marriage? Applying for Marriage Migration to Norway
Marriages of convenience have become a central concern in political debates about immigration policy. According to Norwegian regulations, the right to marriage migration only applies to ‘real’ relationships. The notion of a real or genuine marriage, as opposed to a marriage of convenience, raises the question of what characterises a legitimate intimate relationship. Based on interviews with the parties involved, this article investigates how marr…
With a Heavy Heart: Ethics, Emotions and Rationality in Norwegian Immigration Administration
This article analyses decision-making processes concerning applications for family immigration to Norway by giving an account of the dilemmas and challenges faced by the employees of the Norwegian immigration administration. I argue that these civil servants negotiate two somewhat different ethical principles where the foundation for ethical conduct is either emotion or reason. The article investigates the ethical potential of bureaucracy and aim…
The Problem of Dependency: Immigration, Gender, and the Welfare State
This article discusses the regulation of marriage migration to Norway through an analysis of the subsistence requirement rule which entails that a person who wants to bring a spouse to Norway must achieve a certain level of income. Policy-makers present two main arguments for this regulation. First, the subsistence requirement is a means to prevent forced marriage. Second, its aim is to prevent family immigrants from becoming a burden on welfare …
The Problem of Dependency: Immigration, Gender, and the Welfare State
This article discusses the regulation of marriage migration to Norway through an analysis of the subsistence requirement rule which entails that a person who wants to bring a spouse to Norway must achieve a certain level of income. Policy-makers present two main arguments for this regulation. First, the subsistence requirement is a means to prevent forced marriage. Second, its aim is to prevent family immigrants from becoming a burden on welfare …
A Real Marriage? Applying for Marriage Migration to Norway
Marriages of convenience have become a central concern in political debates about immigration policy. According to Norwegian regulations, the right to marriage migration only applies to ‘real’ relationships. The notion of a real or genuine marriage, as opposed to a marriage of convenience, raises the question of what characterises a legitimate intimate relationship. Based on interviews with the parties involved, this article investigates how marr…
With a Heavy Heart: Ethics, Emotions and Rationality in Norwegian Immigration Administration
This article analyses decision-making processes concerning applications for family immigration to Norway by giving an account of the dilemmas and challenges faced by the employees of the Norwegian immigration administration. I argue that these civil servants negotiate two somewhat different ethical principles where the foundation for ethical conduct is either emotion or reason. The article investigates the ethical potential of bureaucracy and aim…
Family Migration and Integration: The Need for a New Research Agenda
This article investigates the link between family migration and integration. It is based on a literature review of existing research across the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, focusing on examples from Denmark and Norway. Much of the existing literature on family migration and integration analyses legal changes and policy arguments. Focusing on literature about integration and regulation outcomes, we identi…
Gaps and Silences: Gender and Climate Policies in the Global North
For decades, feminist activists and scholars have stressed the importance of integrating gender perspectives into the most defining challenge of our time: the climate disaster. In this article, we analyze official Norwegian policy documents in the context of regional and supra-national levels. We identify a lack of connection between gender equality policy and climate policy in the Norwegian policy documents that is symptomatic of a general silen…
Everything but the Marriage Certificate: Unmarried Partners in Norwegian Immigration Regulation
Pandemic border closures separated previously transnational couples, including unmarried partners, revealing under-researched forms of transnational family life. From this point of departure, we reexamine Norwegian family immigration regulation for unmarried partners from the 1980s onwards. Societal norms around coupledom have shifted toward Giddens’s “pure relationship.” Yet, immigration regulations have focused on “problematic marriages,” such …
The Problem of Dependency: Immigration, Gender, and the Welfare State
This article discusses the regulation of marriage migration to Norway through an analysis of the subsistence requirement rule which entails that a person who wants to bring a spouse to Norway must achieve a certain level of income. Policy-makers present two main arguments for this regulation. First, the subsistence requirement is a means to prevent forced marriage. Second, its aim is to prevent family immigrants from becoming a burden on welfare …
A Real Marriage? Applying for Marriage Migration to Norway
Marriages of convenience have become a central concern in political debates about immigration policy. According to Norwegian regulations, the right to marriage migration only applies to ‘real’ relationships. The notion of a real or genuine marriage, as opposed to a marriage of convenience, raises the question of what characterises a legitimate intimate relationship. Based on interviews with the parties involved, this article investigates how marr…
With a Heavy Heart: Ethics, Emotions and Rationality in Norwegian Immigration Administration
This article analyses decision-making processes concerning applications for family immigration to Norway by giving an account of the dilemmas and challenges faced by the employees of the Norwegian immigration administration. I argue that these civil servants negotiate two somewhat different ethical principles where the foundation for ethical conduct is either emotion or reason. The article investigates the ethical potential of bureaucracy and aim…
Anita Schjølset (red.): Gender i forsvaret
Land, History and People: Older people’s Stories about Meaningful Activities and Social Relations in Later Life
Family Migration and Integration: The Need for a New Research Agenda
This article investigates the link between family migration and integration. It is based on a literature review of existing research across the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, focusing on examples from Denmark and Norway. Much of the existing literature on family migration and integration analyses legal changes and policy arguments. Focusing on literature about integration and regulation outcomes, we identi…
Diskriminering og sosial ekskludering av skeive med innvandrerbakgrunn
Denne artikkelen presenterer funn fra en undersøkelse om levekår blant skeive med innvandrerbakgrunn i Norge. Med utgangspunkt i et interseksjonelt perspektiv analyserer vi 251 respondenters erfaringer med diskriminering og sosial ekskludering. Resultatene viser at over halvparten rapporterte om negative kommentarer eller handlinger fordi de bryter med normer for kjønn eller seksualitet, og noen flere på grunn av innvandrerbakgrunn. Om lag 1 av 3…
Mer midlertidighet: Innvandringspolitikken Etter Asylforliket
Hvilke konsekvenser får det når innvandringspolitikken preges av stadig mer midlertidighet? Dette spørsmålet ble ikke utredet og knapt diskutert i forbindelse med omfattende politiske endringer etter asylforliket. Denne artikkelen setter søkelys på midlertidighetens konsekvenser for individet og for samfunnsmessige målsetninger om integrering. Vi analyserer to endringer som enkeltvis og samlet medfører mer midlertidighet: 1) inntektskrav for perm…
Gaps and Silences: Gender and Climate Policies in the Global North
For decades, feminist activists and scholars have stressed the importance of integrating gender perspectives into the most defining challenge of our time: the climate disaster. In this article, we analyze official Norwegian policy documents in the context of regional and supra-national levels. We identify a lack of connection between gender equality policy and climate policy in the Norwegian policy documents that is symptomatic of a general silen…
Do integration requirements undermine egalitarianism?
For decades, policy makers have expressed concerns about immigration potentially undermining the welfare state.In this chapter, we examine a new income requirement for obtaining permanent residence.We argue that this requirement that was meant to rescue the fiscal sustainability of the welfare state may upon closer scrutiny create and exacerbate both socioeconomic and political inequalities, paradoxically resulting in the undermining of the egali…
Everything but the Marriage Certificate: Unmarried Partners in Norwegian Immigration Regulation
Pandemic border closures separated previously transnational couples, including unmarried partners, revealing under-researched forms of transnational family life. From this point of departure, we reexamine Norwegian family immigration regulation for unmarried partners from the 1980s onwards. Societal norms around coupledom have shifted toward Giddens’s “pure relationship.” Yet, immigration regulations have focused on “problematic marriages,” such …
Kollektiv analyse av innvandringspolitikk: Feministiske forskingsmetodar i praksis
I denne artikkelen tek me utgangspunkt i omgrepet «sakteforsking» og utforskar korleis ein kan jobba med kritisk tenking og kreativitet gjennom kollektive analyseprosessar. Caset er ein analyseworkshop me gjennomførte hausten 2022, inspirert av kollektiv kvalitativ analyse (KKA) (Eggebø 2020b) og kva er «problemet»?-tilnærminga (WPR) (Bacchi og Goodwin 2016). Her deltok ei forskargruppe på fem personar i arbeidet med å analysera politiske dokumen…
Mot en mer marginal velferdsmodell: Innstramninger i innvandreres tilgang til sosiale rettigheter etter 2015
I kjølvannet av asylforliket i 2015 ble det gjort en rekke innstramninger i innvandreres tilgang til norske trygdeordninger, og dette er den første gangen den norske folketrygdloven er blitt endret utelukkende av innvandringspolitiske hensyn. I denne artikkelen analyserer vi disse politiske prosessene og spør hvordan problemforståelser og logikker fra innvandringsfeltet har påvirket trygdepolitikken. Datamaterialet består av politiske dokumenter,…
It must be really difficult for the less privileged'. How class affects the legal consciousness of immigrants in Norway
Unrequited love? Rejection experiences and symbolic messages in encounters with immigration regulation
In this article, we explore the symbolic and emotional dimension of immigration regulation from the perspective of immigrants themselves. Drawing from a broader study, we present the in-depth narratives of four highly educated immigrants in Norway, belonging to different admission categories. These narratives reveal rejection experiences—real, vicarious, symbolic and anticipated—stemming from interaction with the state via immigration regulation.…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Immigration (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works) · Economics (4 works) · Norwegian (4 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works)