Blar i Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap på forfatter "Valenta, Marko"
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A comparative analysis of changes in anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim attitudes in Europe: 1990–2017
Bell, David Andreas; Valenta, Marko; Strabac, Zan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Muslims and immigrants have both been subjected to negative attitudes over the past several decades in Europe. Using data from the European Values Study, this study analyses the changes in these attitudes in the period ... -
Conceptualising Syrian war migrations: displacements, migrants’ rights and the major reception regimes
Valenta, Marko; Jakobsen, Jo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article focuses on the migration of people from Syria after the outbreak of the civil war. The ambition of the article is to develop and nuance the typology of migrations of Syrians and relate the categories of ... -
European Asylum Policies and the Stranded Asylum Seekers in Southeastern Europe
Valenta, Marko; Lønning, Moa Nyamwathi; Jakobsen, Jo; Zuparic, Drago (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article focuses on the restrictive European asylum policies and on their humanitarian consequences in Southeastern Europe. We discuss two interrelated topics: (i) the dynamic of the migration of asylum seekers to ... -
Finding friends after resettlement: A study of the social integration of immigrants and refugees, their personal networks and self-work in everyday life
Valenta, Marko (Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2008:32, Doctoral thesis, 2008)The social integration of first generation immigrants in Norway is the main topic of this study. Although most immigrants in Norway receive generous resettlement and welfare assistance from the state, experiences of ... -
The Importance of Skin Colour in Central Eastern Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Racist Attitudes in Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic
Bell, David Andreas; Strabac, Zan; Valenta, Marko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The importance of skin colour is often neglected in empirical studies of negative attitudes towards minorities. In this study we use data from the 2014/2015 wave of the European Social Survey to analyse explicitly racist ... -
Labour Migrations to Resource-rich Countries: Comparative Perspectives on Migrants’ Rights in Canada, Norway and the United Arab Emirates
Valenta, Marko; Strabac, Zan; Jakobsen, Jo; Reitz, Jeffrey; Mouawiya, Al Awad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article compares migrants’ rights and labour-migration policies of three resource-rich receiving countries located in the Persian Gulf, North America and Europe, respectively. The wealthy economies of Canada, Norway ... -
Nexus of armed conflicts and migrations to the Gulf: migrations to the GCC from war-torn source countries in Asia, Africa and the Arab neighbourhood
Valenta, Marko; Jakobsen, Jo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article provides an analysis of migrations from war-torn countries to the Persian (Arabian) Gulf. A growing number of studies focus on labour migrations to the oil-rich countries in the Gulf; yet, migrations from ... -
Nordic welfare chauvinism: A comparative study of welfare chauvinism in Sweden, Norway and Finland
Bell, David Andreas; Valenta, Marko; Strabac, Zan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This study analyses welfare chauvinist attitudes in the generous welfare states of Sweden, Norway and Finland. We find that strict forms of exclusionary welfare chauvinism are near non-existent. However, Finland, Norway ... -
Norway’s Immigrant Population and the Educational System: Grounds for Optimism?
Strabac, Zan; Valenta, Marko (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)In this study, we analyse changes in the composition of the immigrant population in Norway and the educational achievements of various groups of immigrants. Our analyses use quantitative indicators to distinguish between ... -
Perceptions and realities: Explaining welfare chauvinism in Europe
Bell, David Andreas; Valenta, Marko; Strabac, Zan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Welfare chauvinism is largely understood as the view that the benefits of the welfare state should primarily be given to the native population, and not shared with the immigrant populations. Using a multilevel approach, ... -
Syrian Refugee Migration, Transitions in Migrant Statuses and Future Scenarios of Syrian Mobility
Valenta, Marko; Jakobsen, Jo; Zuparic, Drago; Halilovich, Hariz (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article analyses the international migrations and statuses of people who left Syria after the outbreak of the civil war. In addition to exploring the dynamics of Syrian refugee migrations since 2011, we also discuss ... -
Temporary labour migration to United Arab Emirates: a complex story
Strabac, Zan; Valenta, Marko; Mouawiya, Al Awad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)In this study, we take a point of departure in two recently available large quantitative sources of data from the United Arab Emirates(UAE) in order to analyse social and economic aspects of temporary labour migration to ... -
Temporary Labour-Migration System and Long-term Residence Strategies in the United Arab Emirates
Valenta, Marko; Kaley, Knowlton; Jakobsen, Jo; Al Awad, Mouawiya; Strabac, Zan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The United Arab Emirates’ migration system, the sponsorship–based kafala system, is defined as a temporary labour–migration regime. Although there are policies making permanent residence unattainable for virtually all ...