• The arctic migration route: local consequences of global crises 

      Paulgaard, Gry; Soleim, Marianne Neerland (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-01-27)
      This paper addresses peace education focusing on how place-based experiences and collective memories stimulate local mobilisation for refugees fleeing from war. The Arctic Migration Route, located above 69th degree north, became an alternative to dangerous boat trips on the Mediterranean Sea, for people seeking safety and protection in the fall of 2015. During a few months, over 5,500 people from ...
    • Diverse Diversity. Contradictions and Challenges in Norwegian Rural Education. 

      Paulgaard, Gry; Saus, Merete (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-07-26)
      The authors of this paper share a common background from the Northern Norway region, a rural county and the largest and least populated county of Norway. The region is characterised by high out-migration, lower educational levels, and higher drop-out rates from secondary education than in other regions of Norway. Limited educational provision makes it necessary for many young people in rural areas ...
    • Introduction and rationale: An overview of refugee education Europe 

      Gunntorsdottir, Hermina; Douglas, Marcela; Saus, Merete; Paulgaard, Gry (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2020)
      According to the UNHCR’s report Global Trends - Forced Displacement in 2018 (UNHCR, 2019) on changes in UNHCR’s population of concern related to ongoing crises, the number of refugees under UNHCR’s care is almost double that of 2012, with two thirds coming from just 5 countries. Furthermore it is stated that the total global refugee population under UNHCR’s mandate is now at the highest level ever ...
    • RE approaches and strategies in Northern Europe 

      Gunntorsdottir, Hermina; Douglas, Marcela; Saus, Merete; Paulgaard, Gry (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2020)
      In the UNHCR data base on refugees, Northern Europe consists of eight countries, the Nordic countries: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland, and the Baltic countries: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia with a total population of 33,121,044. At the end of year 2017, the total number of refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless persons in Northern Europe was 788,717 (UNHCR, 2019, table 1).
    • Refugees' Encounters With Nordic Rural Areas - Darkness, Wind and "Hygge"! 

      Paulgaard, Gry; Herslund, Lise Byskov (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-15)
      The paper investigates how refugees settled in rural Norway and Denmark experience and interact with their new rural places of residence. Theoretically, the paper finds inspiration in “phenomenology of practices” (Simonsen, Prog. Hum. Geogr., 2012, 37, 10–26), which emphasizes the bodily and sensory experiences of daily life that spur feelings of, for example, “orientation” or “disorientation”. The ...
    • Spørsmål om tid og sted. Mulighetsrom og kvalifiseringsbaner blant ungdom utenfor videregående opplæring i Finnmark 

      Lødding, Berit; Paulgaard, Gry (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2019-12-11)
      Based on individual interviews with young people in Finnmark who have quit or taken a break from upper secondary education, this article addresses the relationship between attachment to place and perception of time. Finnmark is the largest and least populated county in Norway, located in the far North, with only 10 upper secondary schools. The article’s theoretical basis is a criticism of two different ...
    • Spørsmål om tid og sted: Mulighetsrom og kvalifiseringsbaner blant ungdom utenfor videregående opplæring i Finnmark 

      Lødding, Berit; Paulgaard, Gry (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-11)
      Based on individual interviews with young people in Finnmark who have quit or taken a break from upper secondary education, this article addresses the relationship between attachment to place and perception of time. Finnmark is the largest and least populated county in Norway, located in the far North, with only 10 upper secondary schools. The article’s theoretical basis is a criticism of two different ...