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Selected publications:
Christensen, K. & D.Pilling (2014): Policies of personalisation in Norway and England: On the impact of political context. Journal of Social Policy, 43(3): 479-496.
Guldvik, I., K. Christensen & M. Larsson (2014): Towards solidarity: working relations in personal assistance. Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 16: sup1, 48-61.
Christensen, K., I. Guldvik & M. Larsson (2013): Active social citizenship: the case of disabled peoples’ rights to personal assistance, Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research,16:sup1,19-33.
Christensen, K. & L.J. Syltevik (2013): Lønnsarbeid og kvinnearbeid – Tilbake til diskusjonen om arbeid, Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning, 2: 157-170.
Christensen, K. (2013). Disability, Independence and Care (DIC): A cross national study of cash-for-care in the UK and Norway. In J. Brannen, L. Hantrais and D. Filipović-Carter, Databank of International Social Research Methods Case Studies, ESRC National Centre for Research Methods, Southampton University, http://www.restore.ac.uk/ISResMeth/
Christensen, K. & I. Guldvik (2013): Migrant care workers' lived experiences in the UK and Norway. Report based on preliminary findings of the project: Welfare policy and care work: a cross-national Norwegian/UK study of migrants in care work. London: Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King's College London. Available at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/kpi/scwru/res/rowm/projects/norwayuk.aspx
Christensen, K. (2012): Turbulente velferdsrelasjoner: Om ulike norske og britiske erfaringer med personlig assistanse, Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning, 15(4): 263-274.
Christensen, K. (2012): Når velferdstjenester møter ny velferdsstyring: om implementeringen av IPLOS, Sosiologi i dag, 42(2): 48-69.
Christensen, K. (2012): Towards a mixed economy of long-term care in Norway? Critical Social Policy, 32(4): 577-596. Online version available at: http://csp.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/04/19/0261018311435028
Christensen, K. (2012): Towards sustainable hybrid relationships in cash-for-care systems, Disability & Society, 27(3): 399-412.
Christensen, K. (2012): Aldring sett i et sosiologisk perspektiv, pp.33-49 i Bondevik & Nygaard (eds.) Tverrfaglig geriatri. En innføring. (3.utgave) Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.
Christensen, K. (2010): Caring about independent lives, Disability & Society, 25(2): 241-252.
Christensen, K. (2009): In(ter)dependent lives, Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 11(2): 117-130.
Christensen, K. & L.J. Syltevik (2009): Kvinners arbeid. Oslo: Unipub.
Christensen, K. (2008): Social Capital in Public Home Care Services, pp.249-271 in Wrede, Henriksson, Høst, Johansson & Dybbroe (eds.) Care Work in Crisis. Reclaiming the Nordic Ethos of Care. Malmö: Studentlitteratur.
Christensen, K. & E. Nilssen (2006): Omsorg for de annerledes svake. Et overvåket hverdagsliv. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk.
Christensen, K. (2006): A Stark Choice, Community Care (UK magazine: The Voice of Social Care), 6-12 July, pp.32-33.
Christensen, K. (2005): The Modernisation of Power in Norwegian Home Care Services, pp.33-47 in Dahl & Eriksen (eds.) Dilemmas of Care in the Nordic Welfare State. Continuity and Change. Aldershot, Burlington: Ashgate.
Christensen, K. (2004): Silent Voices - on gender-related power in public care services, in Wærness (ed.): Dialogue on Care. University of Bergen: Centre for Women's and Gender Research.
Christensen, K. (2001): De sociale tjenesters græsrodsbureaukrater og deres fordelingspraksis – mellem politikken og folket, i Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning, 4: 222-238.
Christensen, K. & S. Næss (1999): Kunnskapsstatus om de offentlige omsorgstjenestene. Bergen: Senter for samfunnsforskning (SEFOS).
Christensen, K. (1998): Omsorg og arbejde. En sociologisk studie af ændringer i den hjemmebaserede omsorg, Sosiologisk institutt, Universitetetet i Bergen: Skriftserien. Avhandling for dr.polit.graden.
Christensen, K. (1998): Andre-orientering og omsorgsarbejde, Tidsskrift for Velferdsforskning, 2: 82-97. (Andengangspublicering i det danske tidsskrift Social kritik, 63: 56-72.
Christensen, K. (1998): I skyggen af Hellevik. Om udfordringer ved at arbejde empirinært, pp.68-87 i Christensen, Jerdal, Møen, Solvang & Syltevik: Prosess og metode, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
Christensen, K. (1994): Hvad indebærer det at udvikle empiristyret sociologisk teori?, Sosiologisk tidsskrift, 4: 243-261.
2014-2018. Partner of the project based at Lillehammer University College: Making user participation work - from policy to practice. The Norwegian Research Council.
2011-2012. Welfare policy, migration and care work. A cross-national Norwegian/British social study of migrants in care work. Meltzer.
Research report:
Christensen, K. and I. Guldvik (2013): Migrant care workers’ lived experiences in the UK and Norway. London: Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King’s College London. (See: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/kpi/scwru/res/rowm/projects/norwayuk.aspx)
This Social Care Workforce Research Unit report is based on a preliminary analysis of 47 life course interviews related to a study of migrant care workers in the UK and Norway and it is a contribution to the understanding of migrants’ ways into and experiences of care work. Findings presented in this report are related to migration, care work and gender. The study shows that a ‘migratory mind’ is often developed early on and makes these individuals ready to leave their home country. While settlement seems to be a more widespread option among the study’s participants in Norway, the UK case presents a mixed picture in this matter because many migrant care workers seem to go forth and back between the UK and their home country. One key problem we find – also in Norway in spite of settlement – is related to the host country’s language, because this plays a key role regarding social inclusion in general.
The care work our study focuses on in particular is that organised through cash-for-care schemes, currently called personal budgets in the UK. These are aiming at giving people more influence on the content of the support they pay for and in the employment of ‘their’ care worker(s). We find that this type of care work – which basically takes place in disabled and older people’s homes – has a complex character in terms of attracting migrant women and men from working and middle class, the latter even more in Norway. This means that rather than upwards social mobility, care work implies downwards mobility for many migrant care workers.
Although the majority of workers taking part in the transnational care labour market (including countries outside their home country when looking for work) are women, increasingly care work also attracts migrant men. But for men the choice of doing care work at some point is still a less traditional role and may be one that is not consciously planned. We therefore find higher expectations of how this work should contribute to a personal career among the female migrant care workers, in particular in Norway. Simultaneously, this means that the dissatisfaction with this work seems to be stronger among female workers.
2005-2007. User controlled personal assistance for disabled people in Norway and UK. Contribution to the Stein Rokkan Project: Identity politics among disabled people and public service provisions in a new landscape.