The Migration research group addresses central theoretical aspects of migration and transnationalism, and the ways in which these phenomena are connected with peace and conflict. We seek to understand migration processes, the transnational ties created after migration, and their consequences for individuals and societies.
The HumBORDER project held its closing seminar on 1-2 December 2022 at PRIO. Looking back at the humanitarian borders of Europe from 2015-2022 the first part of the seminar assessed different manifestations and dynamics of these borders.
In two new special issues of Conflict and society and Music and Arts in Action, the editors, PRIO researchers Katarzyna Grabska & Cindy Horst, and Katarzyna Grabska & Roy Huijsmans respectively, bring together important new research contributions.
Following the completion of data collection in 26 research areas, across 10 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, the MIGNEX project has published one Case Study Brief for each of the research areas.
Since the end of August, a thousand young adults in Serekunda, The Gambia, have been interviewed about their lives and dreams.
Rojan Tordhol Ezzati defended her PhD successfully on 10 October 2022 at the University of Oslo. The title of her thesis is: Debating diversity, affirming unity: Contestations over we-hood in post-terror Norway.
Congratulations from all at PRIO!
Lise Endegard Hemat has succesfully defended her thesis ‘Just’ Research: A Case Study of EU-funded Research with Experimental
Artificial Intelligence Technology for Border Control at the University of Oslo.
In an extensive book review published in the journal YOUNG, Katrine Fangen offers a nuanced assessment of Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right, by Cynthia Miller-Idriss (Princeton University Press, 2020).
Successful MIGNEX consortium meeting in Istanbul, with inspiring discussion as the project members continue to build new knowledge on migration, development and policy.
PRIO invites applications for this course, which will be taught in person in Oslo in September 2022. The application deadline is 10 June.
As part of the European Research Council funded 'Migration Rhythms in Trajectories of Upward Social Mobility in Asia' project, PRIO invites bids to develop comics based on family history interviews to be collected in four Asian cities in 2023.
Monograph
Popular Article in Refugee Law Initiative
Popular Article in Refugee Law Initiative
Book Chapter in Handbook on Transnationalism
Book Chapter in Handbook of Return Migration
Book Chapter in Handbook on Transnationalism
PRIO Paper
Report - Other
Report - External Series
Journal Article in Central and Eastern European Migration Review
Jørgen Carling
Research Professor