Avhandlingen framstiller innvandring til Norge fra ca. 900 til 1537, dvs. en periode på drøyt 600 år. Tidsperioden er avgrenset ut fra rikspolitiske hendelser. Rikssamlingen under Harald Hårfagre, som la grunnlaget for dannelsen av det norske kongeriket, begynte rundt år 900, mens 1537 var året da Kristian 3. av Danmark oppnådde full kontroll over Norge. Menneskers mobilitet i middelalderen og ...

The focus of this thesis, Spatial inequalities in education in Northern Norway -Exploring rural-urban differences in teacher’s work experiences, is on teachers’ work experiences in different geographic contexts in Norway. It explores the constraints and enablements that teachers may experience due to unequal structural conditions for education. The theoretical framework is based on critical realism ...

The growing hostility against immigrants around the world has brought the debate on immigration and borders back to the core of moral and political philosophy. On the one hand, there is increasing pressure for international human mobility driven by, for example, globalisation, war and conflicts, economic development, family union, career development, and climate change. On the other hand, there are ...

This study investigates small-scale tourism in rural and peripheral areas from a knowledge perspective. It aims to contribute to reflections on relevant theoretical concepts, the identification of critical factors and the development of conceptual tools for tourism development and management practice. This study is organized into four more delimited studies. The first study discusses Wenger’s theory ...

In this thesis I investigate how syntactic forms are represented and accessed in the mind of bilingual children. In particular, I explore the role of executive control and pragmatics in the selection and use of these representations. To do so, I tested a group of Norwegian-English bilingual children and a group of Norwegian age-matched monolinguals in a priming paradigm and in a cognitive task (the ...

The goal of this thesis was to explore, collect and highlight various strategies that British, German and Norwegian documentaries and museum exhibitions use to mediate different cultural memories about the same historical event. By examining the story of the German battleship Tirpitz that was sunk by the British in Norway during World War II, this thesis analyses the production of memory potentials ...

The main empirical contribution of this thesis is the unearthing of two overlooked constructions in Hungarian: the 2DPC and the half-passive. These constructions spice up the verbal domain with their hybrid characteristics, and much of the work was spent to pinpoint the data and establish the relevant generalizations. At the end of the day, an (in)transitivity scale emerged, and constructions with ...

Avhandlingen består av en historiografisk og en realhistorisk del. Den historiografiske delen inneholder en analyse av de ulike fortolkningene av tatere og sigøynere i Vest-Europa fra 1400-tallet og opp til vår tid. Sentralt i denne delen er en kritisk gjennomgang av den sosio-økonomiske fortolkningsmodellen som har forstått taterne som en innenlandsk gruppe som har fått sitt særpreg gjennom en ...

Avhandlinga undersøker føresetnadar for arbeid med samansette samtidsuttrykk i kunst og handverksfagets undervisningspraksis. Den tek for seg kva betyding eksisterande tankesett, omgrep, kvalitetsforståingar og vurderingskriterium har i den fagdidaktiske praksisen. Studien kastar òg lys over korleis eksisterande fagideologiar og institusjonelle mønster påverkar bestemmingar og forståingar av skapande ...

The dissertation aims to establish the hierarchy of functional projections in the IP domain of Saamáka. In order to determine this hierarchy, it is important to study the semantic interpretation and syntactic distribution of each individual tense, aspect and modality morpheme. After which the interaction of these morphemes is studied to determine the exact position in the hierarchy of the individual ...