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Ann Elise Widding Isaksen

Professor
Department of Sociology
  • E-maillise.isaksen@uib.no
  • Phone+47 55 58 91 57
  • Visitor Address
    Rosenberggaten 39
    Bergen
    Room 
    Rom nr 200
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7802
    5020 Bergen

I am doing research on the institutional interaction between the state, the family and (global)markets from a gender,class and ethnicity perspective. Recently I have been working with projects on gender, globalization, citizenship, transnational care and the transformations of the Nordic welfare states.

The Nordic welfare states have a long history of active politicies on gender equality and social welfare for all. Today welfare states "outsources" gender eqaulity conflicts to the global markets and on the national level migration authorities use migration policy to adjust to the needs of the labour market.

Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2019). Mobile likestillingsaktører: Fra 'stivnet til 'villet' likestilling. Italienske kvinners erfaringer med arbeid og familie i Italia og Norge. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. 26-43.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Local loops and micro-mobilities of care: Rethinking care in egalitarian contexts. Journal of European Social Policy. 593-599.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Egalitarian ideologies on the move: Changing care practices and gender norms in Norway. Journal of European Social Policy. 627-639.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Transnational Spaces of Care: Migrant Nurses in Norway. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society. 58-77.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Patients with major depression show intact memory performance- given optimal conditions. Applied Neuropsychology. 191-196.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Die Global Fursorgekrise 2009. WestEnd Neue Zeitschrift fur Sozialforschung. 56-81.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Global Care Crisis: Mother and Child's Eye View. Sociologia Problemas e Praticas. 61-85.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Global Care Crisis: A Problem of Capital, Care Chain, or Commons? American Behavioral Scientist. 405-425.
  • Show author(s) (2007). "Omsorgsnomader". Om globalisering av kroppens forgjengelighet. Sosiologi i dag. 83-107.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Tilpasning til tomme rom. Om globale omsorgskrisers relasjonsøkologi. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. 20-35.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Dristige damer i internasjonalt farvann. Tidsskrift for kulturforskning. 61-74.
  • Show author(s) (2004). "I am not the kind of woman who complains of everything" - Illness stories on self and shame in women with chronic pain. Social Science and Medicine. 1035-1045.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Toward a Sociology of (Gendered) Disgust. Images of Bodily Decay and the Social Organization of Care Work. Journal of Family Issues. 791-812.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Sjukvård som maskulinitetsprosjekt. Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift. 75-93.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Moderlige og/eller moderne bryster. Noen refleksjoner rundt kosmetisk-kirurgiske brystforstørrelser. Kvinneforskning. 76-89.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Masculine dignity and the dirty body. NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. 137-147.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Kroppsutsondringers symbolske makt. Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 79-81.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Sjukvård som maskulinitetsprosjekt. Kvinnovetenskaplig tidskrift. 75-95.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Kommer din praktikant også fra Lithauen Om nye løsninger på gamle problemer. Kvinneforskning. 63-71.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Kommer din praktikant også fra LIthauen? Kvinnejournalen. 17-20.
Lecture
  • Show author(s) (2022). 'Emosjonelt arbeid' - en presentasjon av Arlie Hochschild's emosjons-sosiologi.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Gender and Care in Transnational Families: Empowerment, Change and Tradition.
  • Show author(s) (2016). 'Fake' og 'real' likestilling i neoliberalismens tidsalder.
Popular scientific lecture
  • Show author(s) (2008). Internasjonalisering av familien.
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Globale omsorgskjeder,Latviske sykepleiere i Norge".
  • Show author(s) (2007). Økonomisk selvstendighet for kvinner.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Klasse, kjønn og etnisitet i sosiologien – behov for mer eurosentrisk kritikk?
  • Show author(s) (2007). Globale helsearbeidere.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Global fødsel - shopping?
  • Show author(s) (2005). Tidsklemmen i globalt perspektiv.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Tidsklemmen i et globalt perspektiv.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Globale omsorgskjeder. Om globalisering og sosialpolitikk.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Om skam og individualisering.
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) (2023). Crises of Care in the Nordics.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Toward a Northern, Central and Eastern European Dialogue on Gender, Mobility and Care .
  • Show author(s) (2022). Care Mobilities in Transforming Welfare States.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Between Hierarchy and Equality: The Au Pair Arrangement in Norway.'.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Kroppens sosiologi. Norbert Elias og sivilisasjonsprosessen.
  • Show author(s) (2018). 'Multicultural Families in Norway:Polish and Italian Mothers' Care Strategies.'.
  • Show author(s) (2018). 'Egalitarian Ideologies on the Move: Changing Care Practices and Gender norms in Norway.'.
  • Show author(s) (2018). 'Connecting places. Care loops in Egalitarian Landscapes of Care.'.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Transnational Migration: Children's Reflections on Parental Absence and proximity.
  • Show author(s) (2017). 'Migration and Social Reproduction: Polish and Italian Mothers in Norway'.
  • Show author(s) (2017). 'Migrant Care Workers: Intersections of Gender and Ethnicity in Transforming Welfare Institutions.'.
  • Show author(s) (2017). 'Changing Welfare Regimes and Migrant Care Work'.
  • Show author(s) (2016). 'Velferdsstatens transnasjonale omsorgsrom'.
  • Show author(s) (2016). 'The Politics of Care Work: Rethinking the Private and the Public'.
  • Show author(s) (2016). 'Migration, Trust and Care: Warm and Cold Care Models'.
  • Show author(s) (2016). 'Comparing Care Strategies: European Migrant families in Europe'.
  • Show author(s) (2016). 'Ambivalence and Inclusion: Italian Middle Class Mothers in Norway'.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Mediterranean Familism in a Gender Egalitarian Context: Italian Mothers in Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2015). "Transnational Family Dynamics: Recent South-North Migrations in Europe in a Gender Perspective".
  • Show author(s) (2015). "Transnational Family Dynamics and Social Change: Migration, care and gender." in collaboration with Senior researcher Elsbieta Czapka, NAKMI, Oslo.
  • Show author(s) (2014). "The Role of Institutions: Italian Women between Familialism and Feminism in Norway.".
  • Show author(s) (2014). "Mobilitet, moral og migrasjon: "Familisme"-begrepet i norske og italienske kontekster.".
  • Show author(s) (2014). "Metaphorical Concepts in Research on Migrant Families: Care Deficits, Social Capital and the Care Commons".
  • Show author(s) (2013). Simmel og finanskrisen i Italia.
  • Show author(s) (2013). "Strangers in Paradise? Images of Care among Norwegians in Italy and Italians in Norway.".
  • Show author(s) (2013). "Comments to the North-South Divide in Europe".
  • Show author(s) (2012). "Modernization, Gender and Equality: The Moral Economy of Domestic Work" i samarbeid med Vera Galondabaeva, European University, St. Petersburg, Russland.
  • Show author(s) (2011). "Incorporation and Segregation: Domstic Work and Political Agency".
  • Show author(s) (2011). "Global Care Work: Is there a Nordic Model?".
  • Show author(s) (2011). "Global Care Work: Is There a Nordic Model?" Paper to the Conference: "Imbalance? Diversity in Work-care Relations and Migrant Care Workers".
  • Show author(s) (2011). "Gender and Migration in Nordic Societies".
  • Show author(s) (2011). "Domestic Workers and Political Agency".
  • Show author(s) (2010). The Politics of Recognition: from Cultural Exchange to Domestic Work.
  • Show author(s) (2010). The Global Care Crisis:International Migration and Left Behind Families.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Global Care Chains: Examples from the Global South.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Domestic Workers: Recognition and Social Invisibility.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Norges rolle i de globale omsorgskjedene.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Migrant Carers in a Norwegian Context.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Global Omsorgsmigrasjon: Nye utfordringer for ILO.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Au Pair Placement: Cultural Exchange or Domestic Work?
  • Show author(s) (2009). "Nordic Migration in the Global Economy of Care: A Norwegian - Latvian Experience".
  • Show author(s) (2009). "Global intimitetsproduksjon og internasjonal helse: Nye forskningsutfordringer".
  • Show author(s) (2009). "Global care in Nordic Welfare Societies".
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Nordisk migrasjon i den globale omsorgsøkonomien: Et norsk-baltisk eksempel".
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Morstyverier".
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Migration in Norway: Upstairs and downstairs.".
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Masculinities in Global Care Work".
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Inscribing Global Inequalities in Women's Bodies".
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Hva er en au pair familie?".
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Global Care Chains: The Concept and Empirical Variations".
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Global Brain Drains and Care Drains: Examples from North and South".
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Gendering the Stranger: Care Workers in Europe".
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Gender and Migration in Nordic Countries: Latvian Families Left Behind".
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Gender and Globalization:Care Across Borders".
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Forskeren og dokumentarfilmen".
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Female Marginalization and International Migration: A Latvian Example".
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Care Workers in the Global Economy: A Polish-Italian Example".
  • Show author(s) (2007). Nye sosiale bevegelser: Den internasjonale abortbåten.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Gendering “The Stranger”.
  • Show author(s) (2007). "Gendering The Stranger: Transnational Care Workers in Europe".
  • Show author(s) (2006). Velferdsstatens globalisering: Nye utfordringer.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Transnational Health Care Workers: Polish Women in Sicily.
  • Show author(s) (2006). The Global Care Crisis: A question of Capital or of Commons.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Kroppen - en humanøkologisk almenning eller en bioteknologisk shoppingmall.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Kjønn, kropp og rom. Nye perspektiver.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Kjønn og globalisering: Omsorg over grenser.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Gender, Migration and Integration in Europe: How Polish Women in Sicily use Public and Private Spaces.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Gender, Care and Globalisation: "Adjustment to Emptied Spaces". Health consequences for the families left behind.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Driftige damer i internasjonalt farvann: Abortbåten.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Dokumentarfilm som forskningsformidling.
  • Show author(s) (2005). The Global Care Crisis: A Question of Capital or of Commons?
  • Show author(s) (2005). Russisk identitet - finnes det?
  • Show author(s) (2005). Globale omsorgskjeder.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Fruktbarhetens marked eller markedets fruktbarhet. Abort anno 2005.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Comment to Jane Ussher.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Health Care Migration and Transnational Families: The Management of Stigama and Identity among Polish Health Workers in Italy.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Gender and the Welfare State.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Feminism and The Body: Interaction between Trade Unions and Social Movements in Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Bodies, Care and Masculinities in a global perspective: Homo Faber as a cultural role model.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Omsorg over grenser. Teoretiske og empiriske utfordringer ved prosjektet.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Kjønn og globalisering: Omsorgsarbeidere på vandring.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Gender, Globalization and the Welfare State - as seen from Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Gender and the Welfare State. The Case of Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Gender and Globalization: The Case of Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2003). A New Paradigm in Care Research? Comments to Selma Sevnhuijsen.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Lavmælt åpenhet om lukt.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Velferdsstatens kjønnsdimensjoner-mulige teoretiske vinklinger.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Velferdsstatens kjønnsdimensjoner - omsorgens globalisering.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Omsorgens globalisering.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Norwegian Feminist Research - A Presentation of the Norwegian Feminist Journal.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Mors og fars tid sammen med barna.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Globalisering av omsorgskulturer.
Editorial
  • Show author(s) (2002). kommunikasjon.no. Kvinneforskning. 1-2.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Subjektivitet, kropp og kjærlighet. Kvinneforskning. 1-1.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Reiser i tid og rom. Kvinneforskning. 1-1.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Om Hannah Arendt. Kvinneforskning. 1-1.
Book review
  • Show author(s) (2017). Triandafyllidou, Anna and Marchetti, Sabrina, 2015, 'Employers, Agencies and Immigration. Paying for Care.'. Nordic Journal of Migration Research.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Arlie Russell Hochschild: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. A Journey to Our Political Divide. Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift. 406-409.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Au Pair. Acta Sociologica. 295-296.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Genus och functionshinder (Gender and Disability) av Karin Barron (ed.). Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research. 243-245.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Show author(s) (2022). Care Loops and Mobilities in Nordic, Central and Eastern European Welfare States. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Show author(s) (2016). 'Strangers in Paradise?' Italian Mothers in Norway. Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Global care work : gender and migration in Nordic societies. Nordic Academic Press.
Popular scientific article
  • Show author(s) (2021). The Loneliness of The Dying. Cambio: Rivista sulle trasformazioni sociali. 5 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Intervju om import av omsorgsarbeidskraft. LO-aktuelt : organ for Landsorganisasjonen i Norge. 19-23.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Intervju "Den skammelige kroppen". NRK Puls Helsemagasin. 24-24.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Velferd og (kjønns)ulikhet i det nye Europa. Nei til EUs Skriftserie.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Kroppsutsondring og normalitet. Replikk. 2-8.
Feature article
  • Show author(s) (2022). Women's Biocapital- The Uses and abuses by technology and the market. Current Sociology.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Englene fra Øst. Klassekampen.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Vinterseminaret 2022: En renessanse for 1960-tallets arbeidsbegrep? sosiologen.no.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Nye sosiologiske refleksjoner om pandemien. sosiologen.no.
  • Show author(s) (2020). 'We are all affected, but not equally: Migrant Domestic Workers in Pandemic Times.'. Discoversocieties.org.
  • Show author(s) (2020). 'De tause hjelperne' Italias velferdsstat er i ferd med å rakne. Klassekampen. 3-3.
  • Show author(s) (2015). "Barbereren på Sicilia". Bergens Tidende.
  • Show author(s) (2012). "De må forlate sine egne". Kronikk. Bergens Tidende. 35-35.
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Kjøpt (hus)hjelp". Dagbladet.
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Global intimitetsproduksjon". Klassekampen. 17-17.
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Fattige lands kvinner". Bergens Tidende.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Globale helsearbeidere – en handelsvare? Bergens Tidende. 12.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Diskresjon – til hvilken pris? Dagbladet. 56.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Det globale tjenerskapet. Klassekampen. 12-13.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Global omsorgskrise: Tapere og vinnere. Tidsskriftet sykepleien.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Østutvidelsen og kvinnene. Bergens Tidende.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Østutvidelsen og kvinnene. Bergens Tidende.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Gavekort på kosmetiske operasjoner? Bergens Tidende.
Doctoral dissertation
  • Show author(s) (2017). The Egalitarian Heart. Global Care Chains in the Filipino Au Pair Migration to Norway.
  • Show author(s) (1995). Den tabubelagte kroppen. Kropp, kjønn og tabuer i dagens omsorgsarbeid. -.
Interview
  • Show author(s) (2004). Sånn er livet.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Globaliseringens pris.
  • Show author(s) (2004). EU utfordrer kvinnene.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Alder.
Documentary
  • Show author(s) (2006). Mammaranet.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Show author(s) (2022). Care Loops, Mobilities and the Neoliberalization of Care in Transforming Welfare States. 19 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Strangers in Paradise? Italian Mothers in Norway. 24 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Lokal likestilling og transnasjonale omsorgsrom. 19 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Children left behind. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2013). "Children Left Behind" i samarbeid med Uma S. Devi og Arlie Hochschild. 19 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). The politics of recognition: from cultural exchange to domestic work.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Gendering the Stranger: Nomadic Care Workers in Europe: A Polish-Italian Example.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Transnational Care. The social dimensions of international nurse recruitment. 23 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). La Crise Mondiale du Care: Point de vue de la mere et de l'enfant. 20 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Introduction: Global care work in Nordic societies. 11 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Uplciowenie Obcego.Wedrujace pracownice opieki:polskowloski pryklad (Gendering the Stranger: Nomadic Care Workers in Europe.A Polish-Italian Example). 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Dynamika globalnego handlu opieka: pielegniarki migrantki w Norwegii (The Dynamics of the Global Care Trade: Mingrant Nurses in Norway).
  • Show author(s) (2009). Dynamica globalnego handlu opieka:pielegniarki migranti w Norwegi (Dynamics of the Global Care Trade.Migrant Nurses in Norway). 16 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2007). gender,care work and globalization: Local problems and transnational in the norwegian welfare state-. 21 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Gender, Care and Globalization as seen from Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Gender and Care: The Role of Cultural Ideas of Dirt and Disgust. 180 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Penger som makt og symbol. 11 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Omsorgskrise og globalisering. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2003). Homo Fabers symbolske makt. Om kropp og maskilunitet i pleiearbeid. 23 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Om lukten og skammen. En historie om kroppens uorden. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2002). Lavmælt åpenhet om lukt - en analyse av kundeinformasjon om urinlekkasjer. 19 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2001). Om angsten for de andres avsky. 30 pages.
Art exhibition
  • Show author(s) (2005). Globalization - bidrag til Kunstkatalog "The Welfare Show" (red.)Michal Almgren & Ingar Dragset, Verlag Water König -under utgivelse.
Foreword
  • Show author(s) (2010). Foreword. 7-7.
Article in business/trade/industry journal
  • Show author(s) (2020). 'De døendes ensomhet'. sosiologen.no.
Chapter
  • Show author(s) (2022). Lunchrooms in the Care Loops:Filipino Au Pair Migrants Between Hierarchy and Equality in Norway. 153-175. In:
    • Show author(s) (2022). Care Loops and Mobilities in Nordic, Central and Eastern European Welfare States. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Show author(s) (2013). "Children Left Behind" i samarbeid med Uma S. Devi. 147-165. In:
    • Show author(s) (2013). So how's the family? : and other essays. University of California Press.
Interview Journal
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Moralklemma". Dagbladet.
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Man stjæler da mødre". Kvinden og Samfundet. 21-23.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Utenlandske sykepleiere opplever hverdagsrasisme. Bergens Tidende.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Strammer inn au pair – reglene. Dagsavisen.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Omsorgsklemma. Kvinnen i skvisen – sandwich generasjoner kvinner og hvordan ny teknologi brukes i kommunikasjon mellom generasjonene. Magasinet EVA. 10-14.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Om au pair ordningen og likestillingspolitikken. Klassekampen.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Kynisk sykepleierimport. På Høyden ( UiBs nettavis).

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)

Lise Widding Isaksen (ed.) "Global Care Work. Gender and Migration in Nordic Societies" Nordic Academic Press, Lund, Sweden 2010

Lise Widding Isaksen and Helle Stenum, 2011, "The Politics of Recognition: From Cultural Exchange to Domestic Work" in Majda Hrzenak (ed) Politics of Care. Peace Institut Press, Ljubljana

Lise Widding Isaksen, 2011, "Gendering the Stranger: Nomadic Care Workers in Europe: A Polish-Italian Example." in Dahl, Keranen, Kovalainen (eds) Europeanization, Gender and Care. Palgrave MacMillan, London