Karolina Nikielska-Sekula

• PhD
• University of South-Eastern Norway

This paper discusses the importance that cultural heritage has for Norwegians of Turkish decent when it comes to negotiating both their belonging and the concept of home. The role of heritage in making and crossing the boundaries of ethnicity is also discussed here. I argue that Norwegian Turks have developed a multi-layered sense of belonging base...

This paper problematises the engagement with heritage of immigrants and their new-homeland-born children, bringing together heritage and migration studies. It discusses the use of ancestral heritage in group identity maintenance strategies, and sheds light on minorities’ participation in the heritage of the dominant population. The paper investigat...

Abstract The purpose of this brief is to reflect critically on the use of visual methods in migration studies and to provide concrete examples of their application. We propose to think of the adoption of a visual methodology as a way to access and produce knowledge within the field of migration studies, rather than relying on disciplinary framing....

FULL TEXT IN OPEN ACCESS: http://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/5-Sekula.pdf Employing visual methods of sociology, this article discusses the aspects of transnational space with which migrants and their descendants engage. It looks upon transnationality as being localised and material, rather than abstract and suspen...

Building on current scholarship and empirical evidence from the research conducted by the author on Norwegian Turkish communities in the city of Drammen, Norway, this paper discusses the process of home-making by the descendants of Turkish immigrants in Norway, the so-called second- and third-generation. By doing so it develops a model of a transdi...

This article, based on a collection of 53 interviews with people who migrated from Poland to Norway, discusses how transnational sentiments, nostalgia, and attachments to places and people materialize through the bodily experiences of the mobile subjects. It conceptualizes the notion of embodied transnational belonging, understood as a dynamic, bod...

Presenting the engagement of immigrants, their descendants and native Norwegians with Norwegian Constitution Day celebrations, this chapter discusses how people de facto change elements of national culture through their micro practices. It explores data collected between 2013 and 2020 during the Norwegian Constitution Day celebrations in the area o...

This paper aims at discussing the value of researcher-generated visual methods in studying migration. It focuses on photography as a data collection method, and the problem is presented in the context of researching urban and rural arenas of exercising transnational belonging by migrants and their descendants in new and ancestral homelands. Photogr...

This open access book explores the use of visual methods in migration studies through a combination of theoretical analyses and empirical studies. The first section looks at how various visual methods, including photography, film, and mental maps, may be used to analyse the spatial presence of migrants. The second section addresses the processual b...

This thesis analyses belonging, translocational positionality, and the cultural heritage of people of Turkish descent inhabiting Drammen. In light of the settlement in this mid-sized Norwegian city, it discusses the ways Norwegian Turks use and create spaces and places in Drammen, influencing its landscape. The thesis explores respondents’ expressi...

This paper discusses the functions and meaning of Norwegian-Turkish vernacular space in Norway. Employing the Foucauldian concept of heterotopia, it analyzes Turkish ethnic clubs in Drammen - a midsized city situated in the western part of Norway. In 2013, 25% of the city’s inhabitants were of an immigrant background with the majority (13.5%) being...

This article, through the prism of immigration policy models proposed by Stephen Castles (1995), Steven Weldon (2005) and Liah Greenfeld (1998), discusses those aspects of Norwegian immigration policy that refer directly to children. Areas such as employment, education, housing and health care influence the situation of an immigrant family, which i...

Celem artykułu jest zaprezentowanie sposobów konstruowania kobiecości przez siostry zakonne na podstawie analizy wywiadów biograficznych przeprowadzonych z mieszkankami jednego ze zgromadzeń zakonnych w Polsce. Zakonnice przyjmują styl życia zakładający między innymi wyłączenie z ról matki i żony - trady­cyjnie postrzeganych jako centralne role kob...