Academic interests
Arnfinn H. Midtbøen is a professor of sociology at the University of Oslo. His research lies in the intersection of social stratification, race/ethnicity, and the sociology of immigration, including topics such as ethnoracial discrimination, patterns of second-generation incorporation, and citizenship policies and practices. Midtbøen combines a range of methods in his research, such as field and survey experiments, qualitative interviews, document analysis and traditional surveys.
Courses taught
Midtbøen coordinates the department's introductory course in sociology as well as the BA course on migration, integration and inequality. He also teaches on the use of field and survey experiments in the social sciences, in a PhD course on advanced statistical methods.
- SOS1004: Innføring i sosiologi
- SVLEP1000: Innføringsemne i samfunnsvitenskapene for lektorstudenter
- SOSGEO2800: Migrasjon, integrasjon og ulikhet
- SOS9009: Advanced statistical methods
Background
Midtbøen holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Oslo (2013). From 2008 to 2022 he was employed at the Institute for Social Research (ISF) in Oslo. He has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Oslo since September 2021.
Midtbøen has been a visiting scholar at Princeton University (2012), The Graduate Center, City University of New York (2017), and Sciences Po in Paris (2023 and 2024). He is an Associate Editor of International Migration Review and a Norway Country Expert for Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBACIT) at the European University Institute in Florence. In 2015, Midtbøen established the IMISCOE research cluster Discrimination in Cross-National Perspective in collaboration with Rosita Fibbi and Patrick Simon.
Midtbøen is a board member of the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO) and the Centre for Gender Research at the University of Oslo. When The Young Academy of Norway was established in 2015, Midtbøen was picked out as one of the 20 first members, and he was member of the Young Academy board in 2017-18. In 2021-22, Midtbøen headed a government-appointed commission on the integration of labour migrants in Norwegian society. The committee submitted its report to the Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion in December 2022.
Midtbøen's research has appeared in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences (PNAS), Annual Review of Sociology, Social Forces, European Sociological Review, Journal of Politics, International Migration Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.