A study of the incidence of poverty and social integration of migrant children in Norway

The first article gives the outlook of the dynamics of child poverty in Norway. It considers the different paradigms within which child poverty can be understood: reductionist and complexity approaches. The latter is viewed as a better way of understanding the problem. Complexity theory requires simplification and closer analysis to understand the dialectic between the complexity and the incidence of poverty. The two approaches differ in the case of causation. Whereas the reductionist approach argues for direct linear causation, complexity theory argues for complex causation. Article 2 gives an oversight over the method used in data collection and how these data are analyzed and used in devising a solution to the problem of child poverty. In a complex social world, events cannot be completely controlled but we can utilize complexity to advance our social systems. Modeling within the framework of complexity science can be used to understand and analyze child poverty. Causal loop diagrams and stock and flow diagrams assist us in acquiring a deeper understanding of child poverty by helping to identify the principal variables in the system and show the cause and effect relationships between the variables