I am Co-Director of the PRIO Migration Centre (see separate page).
My research primarily addresses these themes:
- Theories of migration and transnationalism
- Migration aspirations and intentions
- Networks and chain migration processes
- Family and gender in migration
- Immigration policy and migration pressure
- Border control and migrant fatalities
- Undocumented migration and human smuggling
- The demography of immigrant communities
- Remittances and migration-development links
I use diverse methods, often in combination:
- Semi-structured interviews
- Participant observation in multi-sited fieldwork
- Purpose-made sample surveys
- Statistical analysis of existing survey data
- Demographic projection from register data
- Discourse and document analysis
Editorial board memberships
I am an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, the International Migration Review, International Migration, Migration Letters, and Migration Studies.
Personal profiles on other sites
Language skills
- Mother tongue: Norwegian
- Fluency: English, and Cape Verdean Kriol
- Reading proficiency: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, French
- All but forgotten: Esperanto and Japanese
Work experience
- 2014-current: Research Professor, PRIO.
- 2012-2014: Research Professor; Research Director, PRIO.
- 2011-2011: Research Professor; Programme Leader, PRIO.
- 2009-2011: Senior Researcher; Programme Leader, PRIO.
- 2007-2009: Senior Researcher, PRIO.
- 2002-2007: Researcher, PRIO.
- 1999: Research assistant, Statistics Norway.
- 1998: Research assistant, Institute for Social Research.
- 1997: Research assistant, Statistics Norway.
Academic visitorships
- 2016: UNU-MERIT United Nations University and Maastricht University
- 2010: Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
- 2005: COMPAS, University of Oxford
- 2003: Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute
Education
- 2007. PhD (Human geography)University of Oslo, Norway.
- 2001. Cand. polit. (Human geography)University of Oslo, Norway.
- 1998. Cand. mag. (Human geography, demography and economics)University of Oslo, Norway.
- 1993. International Baccalaureate. United World College of the Atlantic, Wales.