Unsettled settlement? Translocal social anchoring and patterns of (im)mobility among Polish families in rural Norway

Stachowski, Jakub

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.09.001

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“…Trust can also be seen as a way of managing uncertainty in life, which can be even more important when resettling and integrating into a new country ( 88 ). Migration is often regarded as a life event that may lead to stressful situations ( 89 , 90 ) as people need to know and adapt to different norms and ways of living and may experience discrimination, and weaker social relations ( 91 , 92 ), It is, therefore, an important finding of our study that trust emerged as a relevant predictor of SHR among Italian immigrants.…”

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Self-Rated Health Among Italian Immigrants Living in Norway: A Cross-Sectional Study

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Rossi

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et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundMost studies on immigrant health focus on immigrant groups coming from extra-European and/or low-income countries. Little attention is given to self-rated health (SRH) in the context EU/EEA migration. To know more about health among European immigrants can provide new insights related to social determinants of health in the migration context. Using the case of Italian immigrants in Norway, the aim of this study was to (i) examine the levels of SRH among Italian immigrants in Norway as compared with the Norwegian and the Italian population, (ii) examine the extent to which the Italian immigrant perceived that moving to Norway had a positive or negative impact on their SRH; and (iii) identify the most important factors predicting SRH among Italian immigrants in Norway.MethodsA cross-sectional survey was conducted among adult Italian immigrants in Norway (n = 321). To enhance the sample's representativeness, the original dataset was oversampled to match the proportion of key sociodemographic characteristics of the reference population using the ADASYN method (oversampled n = 531). A one-sample Chi-squared was performed to compare the Italian immigrants' SRH with figures on the Norwegian and Italian populations according to Eurostat statistics. A machine-learning approach was used to identify the most important predictors of SRH among Italian immigrants.ResultsMost of the respondents (69%) rated their SRH as “good” or “very good”. This figure was not significantly different with the Norwegian population, nor to the Italians living in Italy. A slight majority (55%) perceived that their health would have been the same if they continued living in Italy, while 23% perceived a negative impact. The machine-learning model selected 17 variables as relevant in predicting SRH. Among these, Age, Food habits, and Years of permanence in Norway were the variables with the highest level of importance, followed by Trust in people, Educational level, and Health literacy.ConclusionsItalian immigrants in Norway can be considered as part of a “new mobility” of high educated people. SHR is shaped by several interconnected factors. Although this study relates specifically to Italian immigrants, the findings may be extended to other immigrant populations in similar contexts.

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confidence: 73%

Self-Rated Health Among Italian Immigrants Living in Norway: A Cross-Sectional Study

Terragni

Rossi

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“…Studies indicate how those elements form the position of minority groups oftentimes confining and relegating them to the physical and social margins of the rural communities and magnifying their already precarious position (Lever & Milbourne, 2017; Mešić & Wikström, 2021). Some studies suggest that rural localities may constitute primary settings of immigrant integration and may overshadow the importance of the national context (De Lima, 2012; Stachowski & Bock, 2021). At the same time, local and national contexts are not disembedded from one another, which is reflected by tailoring of national welfare and integration policies to local conditions (Båtevik et al., 2019) or when local ideals of integration mirror national discourses (Gullikstad & Kristensen, 2021).…”

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Growing superdiverse, growing apart—Modes of incorporation of international migrants in rural areas

Stachowski

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2023

Sociologia Ruralis

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This article analyses the perceived impact of international migration on host rural communities from the perspectives of local stakeholders. Based on in‐depth interviews conducted in two rural locales in Norway, we identify a consensus about the indispensability of international labour migrants for the demographic and economic sustenance of the host rural communities. At the same time, the perspectives of stakeholders convey a complex picture of labour migration. The perceived impact of international migration is related to the tempo of migration and to the prior local history of migration that affects how it is represented and handled locally. Depending on the context, international migration may be treated as a common‐place phenomenon or as a force that profoundly affects the conception of the local community. Our findings illustrate a socio‐spatial variation of responses to international migration locally and suggest the emergence of new local social divisions along the growing superdiversity of rural communities.

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“…Et interessant aspekt av fenomenet er arbeidsinnvandreres geografiske spredning, som viser betydningen av rurale områder og lokalsamfunn . Å legge for stor vekt på den nasjonale konteksten kan overskygge viktigheten av det lokale elementet i migrasjonsforskning og lokalsamfunnenes betydning i innvandreres integreringsprosesser, eller vår forståelse av sammenhengen mellom innvandring og sosial ulikhet (Slettebak, 2020;Stachowski & Bock, 2021).…”

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Migrasjon og mobilitet – handlinger, mønstre og forståelser i norsk sammenheng

2022

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The chapter outlines some key developments in the phenomenon of migration and mobility in and to Norway. It reviews how various forms of migration and mobility are addressed in contemporary social science discourses and outlines how the volume's chapters add to the body of knowledge in the field by examining aspects of the phenomenon. The chapter advocates for a more holistic approach to the study of contemporary forms of migration and mobility, which may better integrate and cross-fertilize between the many different thematic, theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of migration and mobility, and outlines some key roads towards such a research strategy.

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Unsettled settlement? Translocal social anchoring and patterns of (im)mobility among Polish families in rural Norway

Cited by 9 publications

References 47 publications

Self-Rated Health Among Italian Immigrants Living in Norway: A Cross-Sectional Study

Self-Rated Health Among Italian Immigrants Living in Norway: A Cross-Sectional Study

Growing superdiverse, growing apart—Modes of incorporation of international migrants in rural areas

Migrasjon og mobilitet – handlinger, mønstre og forståelser i norsk sammenheng

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