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Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag

PhD Research Fellow
Faculty of Social Sciences
Email
alyssa.m.kvalvaag@nord.no
Phone
+4775517518
Study location
Bodø
Office
Bodø, Hovedbygning E324
Areas of expertise
Migration Studies, Social Work, Qualitative Research, Migrant Integration, Critical Theory

Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag is a PhD Research Fellow in Sociology researching re/presentations of migrant integration in northern Norway with a local focus on policy, media, and migrant perspectives. She is affiliated with the research division Welfare and Social Relations. Kvalvaag is the Responsible Book Review Editor at the Nordic Journal of Migration Research and a member of the inaugural cohort of the IMISCOE PhD Academy.

Education: MSc Human Rights and Multiculturalism, University of South-Eastern Norway. BA Social Work, Cornerstone University.

Membership: IMISCOE PhD Academy. PROFRES Research School. International Sociological Association. European Sociological Association. Norsk sosiologforening. Social Work Research Group, Nord University. Gender, Ethnicities, and Equality (KEL) Research Group, Nord University.

Committee: Research Committee, Faculty of Social Sciences (2022)

ORCiD: 0000-0001-5026-4475

2024
Integration as a Solution to Depopulation? Producing the Moral and Loyal Resident in Policies Aiming to Attract and Retain International Migrants 2024, Nordic Journal of Migration Research: Volum 14 s. 1-17 Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
2023
Categorization and Racialization in Integration Discourses: Who is Framed as “Needing” Integration in Regional and Local Newspaper Articles Rethinking Integration: Challenging Oppressive Practices and Pointing to Ways Forward 2023, Siirtolaisuusinstituutti: s. 127-147 Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
International Human Rights Frameworks in Relation to National Family Reunification Policy and Administrative Practice Forced Migration and Separated Families: Everyday Insecurities and Transnational Strategies 2023, Springer: s. 15-40 Palander, Jaana; Baraka, Usumain; Gustafsson, Hilda; Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie; Lokot, Michelle; Martuscelli, Patrícia Nabuco
What Integration Discourses “Do”: The Gendered Migratization of Policy Issues and Justification of Welfare Retrenchment 2023, NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research: Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
2022
Power, Vulnerability, and the Effects of COVID-19 on Migrants Held by the Detention Industry in the United States The Global and Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ethical and Philosophical Reflection 2022, Springer: s. 269-290 Mezzanotti, Gabriela; Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
Indigenous Peoples on the Move: Intersectional Invisibility and the Quest for Pluriversal Human Rights for Indigenous Migrants from Venezuela in Brazil 2022, Nordic Journal of Human Rights: Volum 40 s. 461-480 Mezzanotti, Gabriela; Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
Forced Migration and the Detention of Indigenous Asylum Seekers in the United States: a critical analysis of the intersectional nature of the oppression of Indigenous migrants Direitos Humanos e Vulnerabilidade e Migrações Forçadas 2022, Editora da Universidade Federal de Roraima (UFRR): s. 1016-1050 Mezzanotti, Gabriela; Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
2021
A Quest for Justice: Recognition and Migrant Interactions with Child Welfare Services in Norway Migration, Recognition and Critical Theory 2021, Springer Nature: s. 229-253 Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie; Mezzanotti, Gabriela
Neither Durable nor a Solution: a critical analysis of broken policies of return between the EU and Afghanistan Direitos Humanos e Vulnerabilidade e o Direito Internacional dos Refugiados 2021, s. 898-936 Mezzanotti, Gabriela; Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie; Omar, Maira
2023
A Means to an End? Integration as a Solution to Depopulation in Resident Recruitment Policies in the North of Norway 2023, Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
Book review of Favell, Adrian 2022. The Integration Nation: Immigration and Colonial Power in Liberal Democracies. Cambridge: Polity Press, 226 pp. 2023, Nordic Journal of Migration Research: Volum 13 Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
Interlocking Oppressions, Crossing Categories, and Rights: A Critical Analysis on the Impact of Categorization Defining Human Rights of Indigenous Migrants from Latin America 2023, Mezzanotti, Gabriela; Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
Racialized Human Rights: Discriminatory Responses and Everyday Coloniality in Migration Governance in the Global North 2023, Mezzanotti, Gabriela; Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
2022
Rights, Categories, and Invisibility: The Role of Categorization in Defining Human Rights of Indigenous Migrants from Venezuela in Brazil 2022, Mezzanotti, Gabriela; Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
On Remoteness and Migration: Precariousness, Possibilities, and the Role(s) of Migrant Organizations in the North of Norway 2022, Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
Critical Perspectives on Integration 2022, Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
Book review of Gullikstad, Berit, Kristensen, Guro Korsnes and Sætermo, Turid Fånes (eds.) 2021. Fortellinger om integrering i norske lokalsamfunn [Narratives of Integration in Norwegian Local Communities]. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. 292 pp. 2022, Nordic Journal of Migration Research: Volum 12 s. 251-254 Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
Integration Talk: How Do Local Newspapers Use the Concept Integration in the Context of a 'Shrinking' Area? 2022, Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
Invisible Indigeneity: Challenges of Indigenous Migration from Latin America to the United States 2022, Mezzanotti, Gabriela; Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
Reflections on Migrants in Privatized Detention in the United States and the Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic The Global and Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ethical and Philosophical Reflection 2022, Springer: s. 333-335 Mezzanotti, Gabriela; Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
Living Coloniality: A Critical Analysis on the Struggles for Recognition and Implementation of Indigenous Migrants' Rights 2022, Mezzanotti, Gabriela; Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
2021
Immigrant Integration Policy: A Simultaneous Source of Agreement and Conflict 2021, Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
Legal Frameworks for Refugee Protection in Latin America Latin America and Refugee Protection: Regimes, Logics and Challenges 2021, Berghahn Books: Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
Who needs immigrant integration? Insights from local newspaper articles 2021, Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
Power, Vulnerability, and the Effects of COVID-19 on Migrants Held by the Detention Industry in the United States 2021, Mezzanotti, Gabriela; Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
2020
Family (im)mobility during the holidays: The Norwegian government’s COVID-19 containment measures and the Facebook activism of families separated by borders 2020, Routed - Migration & (Im)mobility Magazine: Volum 13 Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
Keskinen, Suvi, Skaptadóttir, Unnur Dís, and Toivanen, Mari. 2019. Undoing Homogeneity in the Nordic Region: Migration, Difference, and the Politics of Solidarity. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 210 pp 2020, Nordic Journal of Migration Research: Volum 10 s. 115-117 Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie
A Quest for Justice: Recognition and Migrant Interactions with Child Welfare Services in Norway 2020, Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie; Mezzanotti, Gabriela
2019
The Convention on the Rights of the Child: Preventing Discrimination and Ensuring Children’s Rights in a Culturally Diverse Environment 2019, Mezzanotti, Gabriela; Kvalvaag, Alyssa Marie; Coleman, Becky; Hjukse, Susanne Holter