Ansattbilde: Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag

Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag

Førsteamanuensis
Fakultet for samfunnsvitenskap
E-post
alyssa.m.kvalvaag@nord.no
Telefon
+4775517518
Mobil
+4792273326
Studiested
Bodø
Kontor
Bodø, Hovedbygget, E327B
Kompetanseområder
Migrasjonsstudier, Sosialt arbeid, Kvalitative metoder, Integrering, Kritisk teori

Utdanning: Ph.d. i sosiologi, Nord universitet. Master i menneskerettigheter og flerkulturalitet, Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge. Bachelor i sosialt arbeid, Cornerstone University (USA).

Medlemskap: International Sociological Association. European Sociological Association. Norsk sosiologforening. Forskningsgruppe i sosialt arbeid, Nord universitet. Forskningsgruppe i kjønn, etnisitet og likestilling (KEL), Nord universitet. Forskningsgruppe for velferdsstudier (WELCOM), Nord universitet.

ORCiD: 0000-0001-5026-4475

Underviser innenfor sosialt arbeid, sosiologi og samfunnsanalyse. Emneansvarlig for SOA1005 Sosialt arbeid rettslige og teoretiske perspektiver - sosionom og PRA1025 Mentorskap i flerkulturell kontekst. Tidligere emneansvarlig for SOS1004 Mangfold og kjønn.

Forsker WELBOUND (finansiert av Norges forskningsråd)

Forsker PrepChild (finansiert av Norges forskningsråd)

Forsker ROBUST - krisestyring i turbulente tider - tankesett, bevis, strategier (finansiert av EU Horizon 2020)

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 - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
Re/Presentations of Migrant Integration Discourses in Northern Norway 2024 - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag, Yan Zhao, Marit Anne Aure
Contesting integration discourses: migrant organizations and epistemic resistance in northern Norway 2024 Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
From transnational to trans-Indigenous: a critical analysis of the role of categorization and everyday coloniality in Indigenous mobilities 2024 Ethnic and Racial Studies - Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag, João Carlos Jarochinski Silva
2023
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 - Jaana Palander, Usumain Baraka, Hilda Gustafsson, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag, Michelle Lokot, Patrícia Nabuco Martuscelli, Hadas Yaron Mesgena, Irene Tuzi, Helena Wray
What Integration Discourses “Do”: The Gendered Migratization of Policy Issues and Justification of Welfare Retrenchment 2023 NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
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 - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
2022
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 - Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
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 - Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
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 - Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
2021
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 - Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag, Maira Omar
A Quest for Justice: Recognition and Migrant Interactions with Child Welfare Services in Norway Migration, Recognition and Critical Theory 2021 - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag, Gabriela Mezzanotti
2025
Inkludering av barn og unge i utsatte livssituasjoner under pandemien - tiltak i to norske kommuner 2025 FORSA - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag, Janne Paulsen Breimo
Hvorfor lukker vi øynene for ærsrelatert vold? 2025 - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
A Trans-Indigenous Analysis of Im/mobility: Advancing Pluriversal Eco-Social Transitions Against Brutalism 2025 Norwegian Association of Latin American Studies (NALAS) Conference - Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
Different pathways to robust governance in Northern and Southern Europe? 2025 IRSPM Conference 2025 - Lara Ripoll, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag, Jaime García Rayado, Berit Irene Vannebo, Javier García-Lacalle, Ann-Torill Tørrisplass
2024
Contesting Social Imaginaries of Integration: Migrant Organizations and Epistemic Resistance in Northern Norway 2024 IMISCOE Annual Conference 2024 - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
Migrant Organizations as Arenas and Actors of Homemaking: Conceptualizing Integration from Below 2024 ‘Being SEA-EU’ Conference - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag, Yan Zhao
Contesting Integration Discourses: Migrant Organizations and Epistemic Resistance in Northern Norway 2024 22nd Nordic Migration Research Conference - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
2023
A Means to an End? Integration as a Solution to Depopulation in Resident Recruitment Policies in the North of Norway 2023 IMISCOE Annual Conference 2023 - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
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 - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
Racialized Human Rights: Discriminatory Responses and Everyday Coloniality in Migration Governance in the Global North 2023 XX ISA World Congress of Sociology - Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
Interlocking Oppressions, Crossing Categories, and Rights: A Critical Analysis on the Impact of Categorization Defining Human Rights of Indigenous Migrants from Latin America 2023 XX ISA World Congress of Sociology - Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
2022
Rights, Categories, and Invisibility: The Role of Categorization in Defining Human Rights of Indigenous Migrants from Venezuela in Brazil 2022 IMISCOE Annual Conference 2022 - Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
Critical Perspectives on Integration 2022 National Policies and Theoretical Models of Integration, Multiculturalism and Human Rights Protection (MHRMC701) - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
On Remoteness and Migration: Precariousness, Possibilities, and the Role(s) of Migrant Organizations in the North of Norway 2022 21st Nordic Migration Research Conference - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
Integration Talk: How Do Local Newspapers Use the Concept Integration in the Context of a 'Shrinking' Area? 2022 IMISCOE Annual Conference 2022 - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
Reflections on Migrants in Privatized Detention in the United States and the Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic 2022 - Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
Invisible Indigeneity: Challenges of Indigenous Migration from Latin America to the United States 2022 Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) Annual Conference 2022 - Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
Living Coloniality: A Critical Analysis on the Struggles for Recognition and Implementation of Indigenous Migrants' Rights 2022 IASFM19: Global Issues, Regional Approaches (International Association for the Study of Forced Migration) - Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
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 - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
2021
Immigrant Integration Policy: A Simultaneous Source of Agreement and Conflict 2021 Young Researchers Night - Bodø - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
Power, Vulnerability, and the Effects of COVID-19 on Migrants Held by the Detention Industry in the United States 2021 Ethical Perspectives on the Social and Economic Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic - Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
Who needs immigrant integration? Insights from local newspaper articles 2021 ELSA-webinar - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
2020
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 - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
Family (im)mobility during the holidays: The Norwegian government’s COVID-19 containment measures and the Facebook activism of families separated by borders 2020 - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
A Quest for Justice: Recognition and Migrant Interactions with Child Welfare Services in Norway 2020 Recognition, Migration, and Critical Theory - Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag, Gabriela Mezzanotti
2019
The Convention on the Rights of the Child: Preventing Discrimination and Ensuring Children’s Rights in a Culturally Diverse Environment 2019 Conference celebrating 30 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child - Gabriela Mezzanotti, Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag, Becky Coleman, Susanne Holter Hjukse