Cathrine Talleraas

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.

Research Groups

• Migration
• Media

• Governance

PRIO Departments

• Social Dynamics

PRIO Projects

• International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe (IMISCOE)

• Concept, themes and methodology for policy-relevant research on sustainable migration from poor to rich countries
• Negotiating the Nation: Implications of Ethnic and Religious Diversity for National Identity (NATION)
• Possibilities and Realities of Return Migration (PREMIG)
• Transnational Lives in the Welfare State (PhD) (project leader)
• Transnational Lives in the Welfare State (TRANSWEL)
• Understanding the Root Causes and Drivers of Migration

Events

• Mon, 28 Oct 2019 08:30-10:00 – Transnational Lives in the Welfare State: Presentation of Findings
• Tue, 12 Dec 2017 08:30-10:00 – Ten Years of Migration Research at PRIO
• Thu, 20 August 2015 – Thinking About Going 'Home'
• Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:15-10:00 – What's Time Got to Do With It? Integration in a Temporal Perspective
• Thu, 19 Jun 2014 08:15-10:00 – Norway's Readmission Agreement with Ethiopia: What Happened?

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