Additional positions:
Co-director, PRIO Migration Centre
Email: jorgen@prio.org
Work phone: (+47) 22 54 77 64
Mobile phone: (+47) 47 32 42 42
Twitter: @jorgencarling
Website: jorgencarling.org
I am Co-Director of the PRIO Migration Centre (see separate page).
My research primarily addresses these themes:
I use diverse methods, often in combination:
Editorial board memberships
Personal profiles on other sites
LinkedIn
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.
Book Chapter in Handbook on Transnationalism
Report - External Series
Journal Article in Population, Space and Place
Report - External Series
Journal Article in Nature Communications
Popular Article in The Startup
Journal Article in Population, Space and Place
Journal Article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
PRIO Paper
Book Chapter in Renewing the migration debate. Building disciplinary and geographical bridges to explain global migration (KNAW Academy Colloquium)
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.
PRIO invites applications for this course, which will be taught in person in Oslo in September 2022. The application deadline is 10 June.
Kelly Fisher takes over from Mathias Hatleskog Tjønn as the coordinator of the PRIO Migration Centre. He holds an MA in Gender Studies and is a Research Assistant working on several migration-related projects.
PRIO invites applications for this course, which will be taught in person in Oslo in June 2022. The application deadline is 18 April.
Three migration-related PhD courses will be offered at PRIO in the course of 2022: (1) Migration theory: perspectives on time and temporalities, (2) Survey methods in migration research: design, implementation, and analysis, and (3) Ethnographic fieldwork methodology: approaches, tools, and ethics.
The new Handbook on Transnationalism, edited by Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Francis L. Collins and published by Elgar, includes a chapter by PRIO Research Professor Jørgen Carling, entitled "Understanding variation and change in migrant transnationalism".
The lives and dreams of young adults in three cities are explored in the project Future Migration as Present Fact (FUMI).
Fieldwork for the project Future Migration as Present Fact (FUMI) finally began in Ghana after long COVID-related delays.