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‘If I get a job, I will just die here’ : An Ethnographic Public Service Study on Refugee Integration in Norway

Høibjerg, Gard Ringen (PhD Dissertations in Innovation in Services in the Public and Private Sectors (INSEPP);17, Doctoral thesis, 2021)

In this study, I examine refugee integration efforts in four rural municipalities in Norway. The aim of the study was to understand how these municipalities work with refugee integration. Through ethnographic fieldwork, I ...
‘We Do Not Use Freezers in Syria’: Realignment and the Pursuit of Belonging Among Refugees in a Norwegian Village

Høibjerg, Gard Ringen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)

In this essay, I introduce a conceptual pair consisting of Bourdieu’s doxa concept and the synchronizing concept entrainment to show how refugee resettlement entails a process of realignment. This realignment, I argue, ...