About the project
The PhD study is based on fieldwork and interviews in a multi-ethnic high school in Norway. Using psychosocially informed narrative theory, I focus on the period when the students started the first year of high school. I discovered an ethnic and racialized process through which, starting on the first day, the students split into two main groups which they called 'the Norwegians' and 'the Foreigners'.
The project investigates this process: how they claimed, asserted and were ascribed with qualities belonging to the "ethnic packages" of 'the Norwegians' and 'the Foreigners' respectively, revolving around two main axes of identity and group belonging: in-class behaviour and sexual mores.
Financing
The Norwegian Research Council and University of Oslo. Period: 2008-2012.