Helga Katrín Trygvadóttir
Doctoral student
Helga Tryggvadóttir is a PhD student at the University of Iceland. In her current research, which is part of the Mobilities and Transnationalism in Iceland project, she is focusing on the experience of asylum seekers in Iceland. Her MA dissertation is called the Discourse of Development, and was a comparison on discourses of development in Iceland and abroad. As part of her undergraduate degree she did a research on the experience of seawomen in Iceland. She worked as a database programmer and research assistant on Icelandic censuses with Professor Ólöf Garðarsdóttir from 2010-2016. She is a co-founder and chairman of the programming association Kóder.is and has worked with a number of volunteer and activist organisations in Iceland.Publications & Public presentations (Recordings)
Aðgengi hælisleitenda að íslenskum vinnumarkaði.
Helga Tryggvadóttir. (2019). Aðgengi hælisleitenda að íslenskum vinnumarkaði. Íslenska þjóðfélagið, 10(2), 113-128. http://www.thjodfelagid.is/index.php/Th/article/view/156
Being Unknown: The securitization of asylum seekers in Iceland.
Tryggvadóttir, H. (2019). Being Unknown: The securitization of asylum seekers in Iceland. In Keskinen, S., Skaptadóttir, U.D. & Toivanen, M. (Eds). Undoing Homogeneity in the
Borders, boundaries, and exclusion in the Icelandic asylum system.
Tryggvadóttir, H. K. & Skaptadóttir, U. D. (2018). Borders, boundaries, and exclusion in the Icelandic asylum system. Refuge, 34(2), 16–27. https://doi.org/10.7202/1055573ar
Innflytjendur og einstaklingar með erlendan bakgrunn.
Ólöf Garðarsdóttir, Guðjón Hauksson og Helga Katrín Tryggvadóttir. (2009). Innflytjendur og einstaklingar með erlendan bakgrunn. Hagtíðindi, 94(4), 1–24. Sótt af https://hagstofa.is/media/43482/hag_090120.pdf
Orðræða þróunar og andóf gegn henni: Samanburður á birtingarmyndum þróunarorðræðu á Íslandi og erlendis.
Helga Tryggvadóttir. (2011). Orðræða þróunar og andóf gegn henni: Samanburður á birtingarmyndum þróunarorðræðu á Íslandi og erlendis. (Lokaverkefni til MA-gráðu í þróunarfræðum við Háskóla Íslands).
The word I hate: Racism, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Iceland.
Tryggvadóttir, H. & Loftsdóttir, K. (2020). The word I hate: Racism, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Iceland. Stjórnmál og Stjórnsýsla, 16(1), 23-42. http://www.irpa.is/article/view/a.2020.16.1.2/pdf