J F Rye
Biographic Data
| ID | 56696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J F Rye |
| GIVEN NAMES | J F |
| FAMILY NAME | Rye |
| SIGNATURE | RYE J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5252-359X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 332 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Challenging the sociological canon
In recent years, the sociological canon has come under scrutiny from various perspectives advocating for greater theoretical diversity, including calls to demasculinize and decolonize the discipline’s theoretical repertoire, and urging for an updated and more relevant theoretical toolbox to understand contemporary societies. This article critically examines the canon and its role within the discipline by mapping out all entries in sociology readi…
The Alienation-Insulation Dynamic and the Low-Wage Migrant Work Ethic
Low-wage labour migrants moving from lower- to higher-income countries have been celebrated for their strong work ethic over recent decades. The paper draws on qualitative insights from European horticulture to explore why low-wage migrants work as hard as they do. We centre our analysis on an 'alienation-insulation' dynamic. Specifically, we show how migrants are particularly alienated in ways that are different to that of the immobile working c…
The Mobility-Immobility Dynamic and the 'Fixing' of Migrants' Labour Power
Low-wage labour migration from lower- to higher-income economies has become a precondition for capital accumulation. As a part of this, neoliberal actors (businesses and states) strive to actively produce migrants with a strong work ethic. They do this in numerous ways. In this paper, we draw upon labour process theory to argue that a 'mobility-immobility dynamic' is a major way capital now controls precarious workers. The mobility-immobility dyn…
Practises and Processes of Symbolic Reproduction of Racial, Ethnic and National Boundaries in Low-Waged Workplaces
The introduction present key research questions addressed by the Special Issue: What is the character of the symbolic reproduction of racial, ethnic and/ or national boundaries and how are they interwoven into international migrants’ practices, experiences, and strategies within Europe’s low-waged workplaces? The four IS papers address this question from different perspectives; three of them by drawing on materials from the food production indust…
Gray Racialization of White Immigrants
The literature on racialization has typically focused on the situation of people of color in the Western world. In this article, we explore the analytical value of extending the concept of racialization to analyze symbolic boundaries that rely on and fortify the ascription of the specific skills and identities of white immigrants. The discussion builds on a review of the emerging literature on Polish immigrants in Norway since 2004. It reveals ot…
From panic to business as usual
This article focuses on migrant labour in Nordic agriculture, wild berry picking and food processing. The starting point is the fear of a food crisis at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic (2020) because of the absence of migrant workers. The question was raised early in the pandemic if food systems in the Global North are vulnerable due to dependence on precarious migrant workers. In the light of this question, we assess the reactions of f…
Social order in the de-differentiated society
The article problematises the assumption that modern society is characterised by institutional differentiation as a unidirectional process. Inspired by Deleuze's sketch of the 'society of control', in this article the authors explore institutional de-differentiation in contemporary society. They illustrate the process of de-differentiation by developments in the penal institution, employing empirical materials from the Norwegian prison system. Th…
Labour migration, precarious work and liminality
Liminality, as originally conceived by anthropologists, is a temporary ‘in-between’ state that acts as a bridge, connecting old roles to new roles, and resulting in a desired new state. The article applies this concept to precarious migrant work. We argue, specifically, that migrants in low-wage and insecure work occupy four main liminal realms following their cross-border mobility: the temporal, the financial, the social and the legal. We explor…
Praised, prized, yet penalised
The new geography of labour migration
Historically, immigration to Western countries has been an urban phenomenon, but in recent decades, larger immigrant populations have also arrived in rural destinations. In this paper, we address the dynamics of inbound flows and geographical distribution of labour migrants within rural regions: While some rural localities have received large numbers of migrants, others have seen just a few. Specifically, we explore the case of Eastern and Centra…
Marte Rua og Peter Scharff Smith (red.)
Vitenskapens seiere i kampen om virkeligheten
Hva skjer når vitenskap blir relevant? Hvordan forhandler forskerne premissene for sin deltakelse i det offentlige ordskiftet? Mette Anderssons Kampen om vitenskapeligheten. Forskningskommunikasjon i et politisk betent felt analyserer akademias kommunikative utfordringer i møtet med verden utenfor elfenbenstårnet. Bokas case er forskningen på etniske innvandrere1 og denne fagtradisjonens komplekse – og til dels konfliktfylte – forhold til omgivel…
Transnational spaces of class
The sociological study of class, whether Marxist, Weberian or Bourdieusian, has discussed class systems and individuals' location in these systems within the framework of the nation-state and has largely ignored the presence of a growing population of international migrants in western societies. At the same time, the emerging literature on transnational migration has largely neglected the question of social class. This article argues that the sim…
International Labour Migration and Food Production in Rural Europe
Since Hoggart and Mendoza's article on ‘African immigrant workers in Spanish agriculture’ in Sociologia Ruralis in 1999 there has been a proliferation of interest in labour migration to/in rural Europe. It is now clear that the rural realm has been, and is being, transformed by immigration, and that low‐wage migrant workers in the food production industry are playing a particularly prominent role in this transformation. This article takes stock o…
Negotiating Neoliberalism
The flow of flexible and inexpensive low‐skilled manual labour across national borders has become a defining feature of the contemporary global political economy, often accompanied by neoliberalist labour market reforms and growth in the informalisation of labour relations in receiving economies. As a result, immigrant workers experience precarious and deteriorating wage and work arrangements. I discuss whether these are inevitable processes by a…
Labour migrants and rural change
Julia Orupabo
Tormod Øia
Mead, Berger & Luckmann og de signifikante andre
Hans Erik Næss og Willy Pedersen (red.)
Thomas Ugelvik
Second home owners, locals and their perspectives on rural development
Lost in Transnational Space? Migrant Farm Workers in Rural Districts
In recent decades, theories of transnationalism have emerged as key perspectives for analysis of international migration. Drawing on Glorius and Friedrich’s (2006 Glorius, B. and Friedrich, K. 2006. Transnational social spaces of Polish migrants in Leipzig. Migracijske i enticke teme, 22(1–2): 163–180. [Google Scholar]) model of transnationalism, the paper analyses the case of migrant farm labour in rural Norway and demonstrates how the social co…
Youth migration, rurality and class
Drawing on Bourdieusian social theory, the paper combines class and social constructionist perspectives to reconceptualize youth’s rural-to-urban migration. It discusses how structural properties of everyday lives, e.g. class background, inform rural youth’s evaluations of rurality, and how these evaluations generate specific rural/urban residential preferences and migration practices. The theoretical discussion is informed by a survey study amon…
Conflicts and contestations. Rural populations’ perspectives on the second homes phenomenon
Rural youths’ images of the rural
The structural disempowerment of Eastern European migrant farm workers in Norwegian agriculture
Transnational spaces of class
The sociological study of class, whether Marxist, Weberian or Bourdieusian, has discussed class systems and individuals' location in these systems within the framework of the nation-state and has largely ignored the presence of a growing population of international migrants in western societies. At the same time, the emerging literature on transnational migration has largely neglected the question of social class. This article argues that the sim…
Labour migrants and rural change
Youth migration, rurality and class
Drawing on Bourdieusian social theory, the paper combines class and social constructionist perspectives to reconceptualize youth’s rural-to-urban migration. It discusses how structural properties of everyday lives, e.g. class background, inform rural youth’s evaluations of rurality, and how these evaluations generate specific rural/urban residential preferences and migration practices. The theoretical discussion is informed by a survey study amon…
Leaving the Countryside
Depopulation is considered a problem for rural societies because it depletes the countryside of human capital and symbolizes the decay of the rural. In this article, however, rural-to-urban migration is analysed from the perspective of the rural migrants rather than from that of the rural societies: Does rural-to-urban migration represent a problem for the individual migrants in terms of the long-term effects of migration? This research question …
Second home owners, locals and their perspectives on rural development
Praised, prized, yet penalised
The new geography of labour migration
Historically, immigration to Western countries has been an urban phenomenon, but in recent decades, larger immigrant populations have also arrived in rural destinations. In this paper, we address the dynamics of inbound flows and geographical distribution of labour migrants within rural regions: While some rural localities have received large numbers of migrants, others have seen just a few. Specifically, we explore the case of Eastern and Centra…
Conflicts and contestations. Rural populations’ perspectives on the second homes phenomenon
Lost in Transnational Space? Migrant Farm Workers in Rural Districts
In recent decades, theories of transnationalism have emerged as key perspectives for analysis of international migration. Drawing on Glorius and Friedrich’s (2006 Glorius, B. and Friedrich, K. 2006. Transnational social spaces of Polish migrants in Leipzig. Migracijske i enticke teme, 22(1–2): 163–180. [Google Scholar]) model of transnationalism, the paper analyses the case of migrant farm labour in rural Norway and demonstrates how the social co…
The class structure of rural-to-urban migration The case of Norway
This article discusses the rural-to-urban migration of young people in Norway from a class perspective: To what extent do youth in different social classes have distinct migration patterns? Based on data from the decennial Norwegian Censuses (1960–90) and the Norwegian Migration Register (the Generation Database), the analysis traces the migration pattern of all Norwegians born in 1965 who grew up in a rural part of the country. The theoretical p…
The Mobility-Immobility Dynamic and the 'Fixing' of Migrants' Labour Power
Low-wage labour migration from lower- to higher-income economies has become a precondition for capital accumulation. As a part of this, neoliberal actors (businesses and states) strive to actively produce migrants with a strong work ethic. They do this in numerous ways. In this paper, we draw upon labour process theory to argue that a 'mobility-immobility dynamic' is a major way capital now controls precarious workers. The mobility-immobility dyn…
Negotiating Neoliberalism
The flow of flexible and inexpensive low‐skilled manual labour across national borders has become a defining feature of the contemporary global political economy, often accompanied by neoliberalist labour market reforms and growth in the informalisation of labour relations in receiving economies. As a result, immigrant workers experience precarious and deteriorating wage and work arrangements. I discuss whether these are inevitable processes by a…
Amenities, Affluence, and Ideology
In this paper we analyse how conceptions of nature and rural space, combined with broader structural influences—particularly rural restructuring and neoliberal ideology—impact community development in rural amenity areas. Building on qualitative data (in-depth interviews, photo-elicitation, and participant observation), the paper applies interactional theory of community to analyse the amenity-based restructuring narratives of two rural communiti…
Social order in the de-differentiated society
The article problematises the assumption that modern society is characterised by institutional differentiation as a unidirectional process. Inspired by Deleuze's sketch of the 'society of control', in this article the authors explore institutional de-differentiation in contemporary society. They illustrate the process of de-differentiation by developments in the penal institution, employing empirical materials from the Norwegian prison system. Th…
Rural youths’ images of the rural
Leaving the Countryside
Depopulation is considered a problem for rural societies because it depletes the countryside of human capital and symbolizes the decay of the rural. In this article, however, rural-to-urban migration is analysed from the perspective of the rural migrants rather than from that of the rural societies: Does rural-to-urban migration represent a problem for the individual migrants in terms of the long-term effects of migration? This research question …
The class structure of rural-to-urban migration The case of Norway
This article discusses the rural-to-urban migration of young people in Norway from a class perspective: To what extent do youth in different social classes have distinct migration patterns? Based on data from the decennial Norwegian Censuses (1960–90) and the Norwegian Migration Register (the Generation Database), the analysis traces the migration pattern of all Norwegians born in 1965 who grew up in a rural part of the country. The theoretical p…
The Political Economy of Rural Development
Brox, O 2006 ) The Political Economy of Rural Development: Modernisation Without Centralisation? ( Delft : Eburon Academic Publishers ) 133 pages Norwegian rural sociologist Ottar Brox (b. 1932) is one of the most prominent social scientists in Norway and has influenced the country's academic, political and lay discourses on rural development for close to half a century. He has published a large number of academic works on a wide range of sociolo…
The structural disempowerment of Eastern European migrant farm workers in Norwegian agriculture
Youth migration, rurality and class
Drawing on Bourdieusian social theory, the paper combines class and social constructionist perspectives to reconceptualize youth’s rural-to-urban migration. It discusses how structural properties of everyday lives, e.g. class background, inform rural youth’s evaluations of rurality, and how these evaluations generate specific rural/urban residential preferences and migration practices. The theoretical discussion is informed by a survey study amon…
Conflicts and contestations. Rural populations’ perspectives on the second homes phenomenon
Amenities, Affluence, and Ideology
In this paper we analyse how conceptions of nature and rural space, combined with broader structural influences—particularly rural restructuring and neoliberal ideology—impact community development in rural amenity areas. Building on qualitative data (in-depth interviews, photo-elicitation, and participant observation), the paper applies interactional theory of community to analyse the amenity-based restructuring narratives of two rural communiti…
Thomas Ugelvik
Second home owners, locals and their perspectives on rural development
Lost in Transnational Space? Migrant Farm Workers in Rural Districts
In recent decades, theories of transnationalism have emerged as key perspectives for analysis of international migration. Drawing on Glorius and Friedrich’s (2006 Glorius, B. and Friedrich, K. 2006. Transnational social spaces of Polish migrants in Leipzig. Migracijske i enticke teme, 22(1–2): 163–180. [Google Scholar]) model of transnationalism, the paper analyses the case of migrant farm labour in rural Norway and demonstrates how the social co…
Mead, Berger & Luckmann og de signifikante andre
Hans Erik Næss og Willy Pedersen (red.)
Tormod Øia
Julia Orupabo
Negotiating Neoliberalism
The flow of flexible and inexpensive low‐skilled manual labour across national borders has become a defining feature of the contemporary global political economy, often accompanied by neoliberalist labour market reforms and growth in the informalisation of labour relations in receiving economies. As a result, immigrant workers experience precarious and deteriorating wage and work arrangements. I discuss whether these are inevitable processes by a…
Labour migrants and rural change
International Labour Migration and Food Production in Rural Europe
Since Hoggart and Mendoza's article on ‘African immigrant workers in Spanish agriculture’ in Sociologia Ruralis in 1999 there has been a proliferation of interest in labour migration to/in rural Europe. It is now clear that the rural realm has been, and is being, transformed by immigration, and that low‐wage migrant workers in the food production industry are playing a particularly prominent role in this transformation. This article takes stock o…
Vitenskapens seiere i kampen om virkeligheten
Hva skjer når vitenskap blir relevant? Hvordan forhandler forskerne premissene for sin deltakelse i det offentlige ordskiftet? Mette Anderssons Kampen om vitenskapeligheten. Forskningskommunikasjon i et politisk betent felt analyserer akademias kommunikative utfordringer i møtet med verden utenfor elfenbenstårnet. Bokas case er forskningen på etniske innvandrere1 og denne fagtradisjonens komplekse – og til dels konfliktfylte – forhold til omgivel…
Transnational spaces of class
The sociological study of class, whether Marxist, Weberian or Bourdieusian, has discussed class systems and individuals' location in these systems within the framework of the nation-state and has largely ignored the presence of a growing population of international migrants in western societies. At the same time, the emerging literature on transnational migration has largely neglected the question of social class. This article argues that the sim…
The new geography of labour migration
Historically, immigration to Western countries has been an urban phenomenon, but in recent decades, larger immigrant populations have also arrived in rural destinations. In this paper, we address the dynamics of inbound flows and geographical distribution of labour migrants within rural regions: While some rural localities have received large numbers of migrants, others have seen just a few. Specifically, we explore the case of Eastern and Centra…
Marte Rua og Peter Scharff Smith (red.)
Praised, prized, yet penalised
Labour migration, precarious work and liminality
Liminality, as originally conceived by anthropologists, is a temporary ‘in-between’ state that acts as a bridge, connecting old roles to new roles, and resulting in a desired new state. The article applies this concept to precarious migrant work. We argue, specifically, that migrants in low-wage and insecure work occupy four main liminal realms following their cross-border mobility: the temporal, the financial, the social and the legal. We explor…
Practises and Processes of Symbolic Reproduction of Racial, Ethnic and National Boundaries in Low-Waged Workplaces
The introduction present key research questions addressed by the Special Issue: What is the character of the symbolic reproduction of racial, ethnic and/ or national boundaries and how are they interwoven into international migrants’ practices, experiences, and strategies within Europe’s low-waged workplaces? The four IS papers address this question from different perspectives; three of them by drawing on materials from the food production indust…
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Economics (15 works) · Geography (14 works) · Norwegian (13 works) · Rural development and sustainability (12 works) · Rural area (9 works) · Economic geography (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works)