Background
Cathrine Talleraas is currently working on projects related to migration, transnational living and migration management. At PRIO, she is contributing to the H2020 project "Cross-Migration" where she has co-led one of the project work packages and contributed to creating the architecture of the Migration Research Hub. At CMI, Cathrine is project coordinator of the newly funded project "Effects of Externalisation: EU Migration Management in Africa and the Middle East". In the project, she will carry out research on migration management in West Africa.
Cathrine holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Oslo (2020). In her PhD research, she studied how state institutions engage with people who lead transnational lives. Her doctoral thesis "Institutionalising transnationalism: The national welfare system’s encounter with people who lead transnational lives" is available here. She is currently co-chair of the IMISCOE Standing Committee "Migration Politics and Governance" and a board member in the Standing Committee "Reflexive Migration Studies". In 2017-2018 she coordinated the IMISCOE PhD-Network.
Cathrine holds an MSc in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford, where her thesis focused on the effects and consequences of migration policy, using the readmission agreement between Ethiopia and Norway as a case study. She holds an MA in Human Geography from the University of Oslo, where she wrote about migration policy in Senegal and the role of policies in determining patterns of migration.
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All Publications
Peer-reviewed Journal Article
PRIO Policy Brief
Erdal, Marta Bivand & Cathrine Talleraas (2015)
Becoming One of Us?,
PRIO Policy Brief, 11. Oslo: PRIO.