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

Personal profiles on other sites
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Academia.edu
Google Scholar Citations

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.