Marte Knag Fylkesnes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3470176 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marte Knag Fylkesnes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marte Knag |
| FAMILY NAME | Fylkesnes |
| SIGNATURE | FYLKESNES M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | NORCE Research AS |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3421-1768 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Independence through a safety net: Aftercare experiences of young adults with cross-cultural backgrounds in the child welfare services
This article explores how young adults with cross-cultural backgrounds experience aftercare support from the Norwegian child welfare services, and how such support shapes their transitions to adulthood. Drawing on the Capabilities Approach, the study applies reflexive thematic analysis to analyze in-depth interviews with ten young adults aged 19–23 who received aftercare. Findings show that accessible, responsive and context-aware aftercare, enab…
My heritage language defines me in a way”: Exploring the meaning of language in foster care
The article explores how children with migrant backgrounds, placed in foster care, perceive and navigate heritage language maintenance. We analyse qualitative interviews with 14 children and 27 foster carers in Norway and Sweden. Findings indicate that language is significant for children’s social identity and opportunities to establish a sense of home, across foster and birth families. Heritage language maintenance, however, may be hindered due …
To Feel at Home Is to Feel Safe’: Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (Re)Creating a Sense of Home in Foster Care over Time
This study explores what unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) emphasise as important to (re)create a sense of home in foster care over time. Through a longitudinal design consisting of semi-structured, photo-elicitation interviews and by drawing on the concept of homing, we clustered young people’s experiences into three intertwined aspects that contribute to (re)creating a sense of home in foster care: security, familiarity, and autonomy. The stu…
Navigating Family Relationships and a Sense of Home in Foster Care: The Experiences of Children With Migration Backgrounds
Establishing a sense of belonging and home in foster care can be demanding for children, as placement involves discontinuities such as ruptures with family and networks. For children with migration backgrounds, this can include adapting to new languages, traditions, religious and cultural practices. In this study, we shed light on how children with migration backgrounds in foster care experience and navigate contact with their birth family and ho…
A Space for Motherhood? Contact Visits from the Perspectives of Mothers with Migration Experiences
When a child is placed in out-of-home care, parents must adapt their parenting to a unique situation governed by Child Welfare Services (CWS). Contact arrangements between parents and children are particularly important, as they provide the primary opportunity for parents to maintain a meaningful connection and participate in their children's lives. This article explores how mothers with migration experiences navigate their motherhood when it is …
Forced Migration: A Relational Wellbeing Approach
In this Special Issue, we consider the ways in which a relational wellbeing approach can be used to understand the lives and trajectories of refugees in general and young refugees in particular
Keeping Each Other Safe: Young Refugees’ Navigation Towards a Good Life in Finland, Norway, and Scotland
The metaphor of navigation has been used to investigate the social and moral movements people make in changeable or fluctuating circumstances, as well as to shed light on the intersection of people, practices and the changing contexts and social forces around them. In this chapter, we first provide a short overview of navigation as a metaphor, and how the situations of young refugees might add to the multiple meanings of navigation. Using empiric…
Family-like Relationships and Wellbeing of Young Refugees in Finland, Norway, and Scotland
In this article, we explore the role of family-like relationships in creating wellbeing for unaccompanied minor refugees (UMRs) to Europe. Our theoretical point of departure is a relational approach to wellbeing as conceptualized by Sarah C. White. The data comprises interviews with 51 settled UMRs in Finland, Norway, and Scotland, focused on their social networks, and a selection of paired interviews with young people alongside someone they defi…
Listening to Advice from Young People in Foster Care—From Participation to Belonging
Ensuring that young people in foster care receive the support they need at the right time, is a pressing issue across health- and social services. In this study, we aim to broaden the knowledge base on what constitutes appropriate help and support from the perspective of young people in long-term foster care in Norway. As part of a larger survey, young people in foster care (N = 178) aged eleven to eighteen years provided written accounts on the …
Precarious participation: Exploring ethnic minority youth's narratives about out-of-home placement in Norway
Negotiating deficiency: Exploring ethnic minority parents' narratives about encountering child welfare services in Norway
Evaluating the participatory opportunities for service users within social welfare institutions is a pressing issue. In this article, we explore a group of ethnic minority parents' experiences with child welfare services (CWS) in Norway. A strong narrative theme was deficiency positioning—how lacking a Norwegian normative set of knowledge and skills challenged the parents' opportunities to participate. We analysed how deficiency positioning was p…
Negotiating deficiency: Exploring ethnic minority parents' narratives about encountering child welfare services in Norway
Evaluating the participatory opportunities for service users within social welfare institutions is a pressing issue. In this article, we explore a group of ethnic minority parents' experiences with child welfare services (CWS) in Norway. A strong narrative theme was deficiency positioning—how lacking a Norwegian normative set of knowledge and skills challenged the parents' opportunities to participate. We analysed how deficiency positioning was p…
Family-like Relationships and Wellbeing of Young Refugees in Finland, Norway, and Scotland
In this article, we explore the role of family-like relationships in creating wellbeing for unaccompanied minor refugees (UMRs) to Europe. Our theoretical point of departure is a relational approach to wellbeing as conceptualized by Sarah C. White. The data comprises interviews with 51 settled UMRs in Finland, Norway, and Scotland, focused on their social networks, and a selection of paired interviews with young people alongside someone they defi…
Precarious participation: Exploring ethnic minority youth's narratives about out-of-home placement in Norway
A Space for Motherhood? Contact Visits from the Perspectives of Mothers with Migration Experiences
When a child is placed in out-of-home care, parents must adapt their parenting to a unique situation governed by Child Welfare Services (CWS). Contact arrangements between parents and children are particularly important, as they provide the primary opportunity for parents to maintain a meaningful connection and participate in their children's lives. This article explores how mothers with migration experiences navigate their motherhood when it is …
Forced Migration: A Relational Wellbeing Approach
In this Special Issue, we consider the ways in which a relational wellbeing approach can be used to understand the lives and trajectories of refugees in general and young refugees in particular
Listening to Advice from Young People in Foster Care—From Participation to Belonging
Ensuring that young people in foster care receive the support they need at the right time, is a pressing issue across health- and social services. In this study, we aim to broaden the knowledge base on what constitutes appropriate help and support from the perspective of young people in long-term foster care in Norway. As part of a larger survey, young people in foster care (N = 178) aged eleven to eighteen years provided written accounts on the …
Negotiating deficiency: Exploring ethnic minority parents' narratives about encountering child welfare services in Norway
Evaluating the participatory opportunities for service users within social welfare institutions is a pressing issue. In this article, we explore a group of ethnic minority parents' experiences with child welfare services (CWS) in Norway. A strong narrative theme was deficiency positioning—how lacking a Norwegian normative set of knowledge and skills challenged the parents' opportunities to participate. We analysed how deficiency positioning was p…
Precarious participation: Exploring ethnic minority youth's narratives about out-of-home placement in Norway
Listening to Advice from Young People in Foster Care—From Participation to Belonging
Ensuring that young people in foster care receive the support they need at the right time, is a pressing issue across health- and social services. In this study, we aim to broaden the knowledge base on what constitutes appropriate help and support from the perspective of young people in long-term foster care in Norway. As part of a larger survey, young people in foster care (N = 178) aged eleven to eighteen years provided written accounts on the …
Keeping Each Other Safe: Young Refugees’ Navigation Towards a Good Life in Finland, Norway, and Scotland
The metaphor of navigation has been used to investigate the social and moral movements people make in changeable or fluctuating circumstances, as well as to shed light on the intersection of people, practices and the changing contexts and social forces around them. In this chapter, we first provide a short overview of navigation as a metaphor, and how the situations of young refugees might add to the multiple meanings of navigation. Using empiric…
Family-like Relationships and Wellbeing of Young Refugees in Finland, Norway, and Scotland
In this article, we explore the role of family-like relationships in creating wellbeing for unaccompanied minor refugees (UMRs) to Europe. Our theoretical point of departure is a relational approach to wellbeing as conceptualized by Sarah C. White. The data comprises interviews with 51 settled UMRs in Finland, Norway, and Scotland, focused on their social networks, and a selection of paired interviews with young people alongside someone they defi…
Forced Migration: A Relational Wellbeing Approach
In this Special Issue, we consider the ways in which a relational wellbeing approach can be used to understand the lives and trajectories of refugees in general and young refugees in particular
To Feel at Home Is to Feel Safe’: Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (Re)Creating a Sense of Home in Foster Care over Time
This study explores what unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) emphasise as important to (re)create a sense of home in foster care over time. Through a longitudinal design consisting of semi-structured, photo-elicitation interviews and by drawing on the concept of homing, we clustered young people’s experiences into three intertwined aspects that contribute to (re)creating a sense of home in foster care: security, familiarity, and autonomy. The stu…
Navigating Family Relationships and a Sense of Home in Foster Care: The Experiences of Children With Migration Backgrounds
Establishing a sense of belonging and home in foster care can be demanding for children, as placement involves discontinuities such as ruptures with family and networks. For children with migration backgrounds, this can include adapting to new languages, traditions, religious and cultural practices. In this study, we shed light on how children with migration backgrounds in foster care experience and navigate contact with their birth family and ho…
A Space for Motherhood? Contact Visits from the Perspectives of Mothers with Migration Experiences
When a child is placed in out-of-home care, parents must adapt their parenting to a unique situation governed by Child Welfare Services (CWS). Contact arrangements between parents and children are particularly important, as they provide the primary opportunity for parents to maintain a meaningful connection and participate in their children's lives. This article explores how mothers with migration experiences navigate their motherhood when it is …
Independence through a safety net: Aftercare experiences of young adults with cross-cultural backgrounds in the child welfare services
This article explores how young adults with cross-cultural backgrounds experience aftercare support from the Norwegian child welfare services, and how such support shapes their transitions to adulthood. Drawing on the Capabilities Approach, the study applies reflexive thematic analysis to analyze in-depth interviews with ten young adults aged 19–23 who received aftercare. Findings show that accessible, responsive and context-aware aftercare, enab…
My heritage language defines me in a way”: Exploring the meaning of language in foster care
The article explores how children with migrant backgrounds, placed in foster care, perceive and navigate heritage language maintenance. We analyse qualitative interviews with 14 children and 27 foster carers in Norway and Sweden. Findings indicate that language is significant for children’s social identity and opportunities to establish a sense of home, across foster and birth families. Heritage language maintenance, however, may be hindered due …
Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (6 works) · Refugee (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Foster care (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)