Book review of Gullikstad, Berit, Kristensen, Guro Korsnes and Sætermo, Turid Fånes (eds.) 2021. Fortellinger om integrering i norske lokalsamfunn [Narratives of Integration in Norwegian Local Communities]. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. 292 pp.

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TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Kvalvaag, AM. 2022. Book review of Gullikstad, Berit, Kristensen, Guro Korsnes and Sætermo, Turid Fånes (eds.) 2021. Fortellinger om integrering i norske lokalsamfunn [Narratives of Integration in Norwegian Local Communities]. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. 292 pp. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 12(2), pp. 251–254. DOI: https://doi. org/10.33134/njmr.530 Studying integration at the local level, Fortellinger om integrering i norske lokalsamfunn provides various perspectives that contextualize, challenge, and nuance national narratives of immigrant integration in Norway. The volume is edited by Professor Berit Gullikstad, Professor Guro Korsnes Kristensen, and postdoc and senior researcher Turid Fånes Sætermo, all of whom are based at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Contributions are the result of five research projects at three Norwegian institutions.1 Each contribution addresses integration, narratives as a methodological term, and local communities and societal formations. In the introductory chapter, the editors position the book within international research on integration and specifically the local turn in integration research (Meissner & Heil 2021). The contributions are based on data collection from smaller cities and towns in rural and coastal municipalities or what is often called ‘District Norway’ (p. 14), which carries a connotation of sparsely populated, rural areas located some distance from the largest cities in Norway: in particular, Oslo (SNL 2019).