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Unni Wikan was born on 18 November, 1944 in Ibestad, Troms, Norway, is a Norwegian anthropologist. Discover Unni Wikan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?
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Ibestad, Troms, Norway |
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Norway
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Unni Wikan Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Unni Wikan's Husband?
Her husband is Fredrik Barth
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Unni Wikan Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Unni Wikan worth at the age of 79 years old? Unni Wikan’s income source is mostly from being a successful . She is from Norway. We have estimated Unni Wikan's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Unni Wikan (born 18 November 1944) is professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Wikan has worked as a consultant to UNICEF and the World Food Programme in Bhutan from 1989 to 1994, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation in Palestinian areas in 1999, and United Nations Development Program in Yemen (2004).
For almost ten years, Wikan has campaigned to change Norwegian policies towards immigrants, arguing that generous welfare and a policy of multicultural tolerance are creating a culture of welfare dependence, and destroying self-respect.
A reviewer of her book Generous Betrayal: Politics of Culture in the New Europe claims that she used invalid methodology, not giving "a far more complex social reality" its due.
She has argued that far from being a racist, she has significant empathy for the lives of many of the Muslim men she has portrayed in her most recent books.
In a well-known case in Norway (The Anooshe case), she argued that the state had not taken into account the social expectations of immigrant men, and this had led to rootless men whose social expectations were not met or even acknowledged, arguing that violence is a product of immigrant conditions when host country laws conflict with the "unwritten social rules" of immigrant societies.
Wikan has performed field work in a number of countries (Egypt, Oman, Yemen, Indonesia, Bhutan, Scandinavia) and her research has resulted in ten books being published.
Her works have been translated into Japanese, Arabic, Kurdish, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, German, and Italian.
She has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard University (1995), guest lecturer at Harvard (1987), guest lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (1983) and visiting assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University (1977).
Wikan was awarded the 2004 Fritt Ord Award "for her insightful, outspoken and challenging contribution to the debate on value conflicts in the multi-cultural society."
She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
She has served as visiting professor at the University of Chicago (2011), Harvard University (1999–2000), Goethe University, Frankfurt (2000), London School of Economics (1997), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1996).
