Jørgen Carling
Research Professor
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
Research Interests
News
Thursday, 22 Sep 2022
International PhD Students Participate in Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology Course
As part of the NORHED II project Partnership for Peace: Better Higher Education for Resilient Societies, PRIO hosted a PhD-level course in Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology.
The NORHED II project enabled PRIO to host students from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), Makerere University (Uganda) and Birzeit University (Palestine). Together with students from a range of European universities, they explored practical and principled concerns that arise from pre-fieldwork planning to post-fieldwork representation of data.
News
Monday, 12 Sep 2022
Early-Career Scholars Learn Survey Methods in Migration Research
Survey-based research is widespread but also replete with challenges. Researchers face a range of analytical, technical, managerial, and ethical dilemmas. Drawing on extensive experience, Research Professor Jørgen Carling and PRIO Global Fellow Jessica Hagen-Zanker have developed a new PhD-level course on survey methods, with a focus on migration research.
The course was taught in Oslo 7–9 September and covered the entire survey process, including research design, technical solutions, data management, quality assurance and communication of results. It drew upon ongoing survey research in the MIGNEX and FUMI projects.
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.
Latest publications
All publications
Empirical analyses of determinants of migration aspirations
Report - External Series
Understanding variation and change in migrant transnationalism
Book Chapter in Handbook on Transnationalism
Systematic review of determinants of migration aspirations
Report - External Series
Living in two countries: Transnational living as an alternative to migration
Journal Article in Population, Space and Place
Survey instruments and survey data on migration aspirations
Report - External Series
Climatic conditions are weak predictors of asylum migration
Journal Article in Nature Communications
What makes people want to migrate? One chart sums it up
Popular Article in The Startup
New economics of transnational living
Journal Article in Population, Space and Place
Circumstantial migration: how Gambian journeys to China enrich migration theory
Journal Article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Two-step approaches and the concept of aspirations in migration theory
Book Chapter in Renewing the migration debate. Building disciplinary and geographical bridges to explain global migration (KNAW Academy Colloquium)
Latest news
All news
International PhD Students Participate in Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology Course
As part of the NORHED II project Partnership for Peace: Better Higher Education for Resilient Societies, PRIO hosted a PhD-level course in Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology.
The NORHED II project enabled PRIO to host students from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), Makerere University (Uganda) and Birzeit University (Palestine). Together with students from a range of European universities, they explored practical and principled concerns that arise from pre-fieldwork planning to post-fieldwork representation of data.
Early-Career Scholars Learn Survey Methods in Migration Research
Survey-based research is widespread but also replete with challenges. Researchers face a range of analytical, technical, managerial, and ethical dilemmas. Drawing on extensive experience, Research Professor Jørgen Carling and PRIO Global Fellow Jessica Hagen-Zanker have developed a new PhD-level course on survey methods, with a focus on migration research.
The course was taught in Oslo 7–9 September and covered the entire survey process, including research design, technical solutions, data management, quality assurance and communication of results. It drew upon ongoing survey research in the MIGNEX and FUMI projects.
Next Steps toward New Insights on Migration, Development and Policy from MIGNEX
Successful MIGNEX consortium meeting in Istanbul, with inspiring discussion as the project members continue to build new knowledge on migration, development and policy.
PhD-Level Course: Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology
PRIO invites applications for this course, which will be taught in person in Oslo in September 2022. The application deadline is 10 June.
New PhD-Level Course: Survey Methods in Migration Research
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 Is the New Coordinator of the PRIO Migration Centre
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.
New PhD-Level Course: 'Migration Theory: Perspectives on Time and Temporalities'
PRIO invites applications for this course, which will be taught in person in Oslo in June 2022. The application deadline is 18 April.
Migration-Related PhD Courses
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.
New Handbook Chapter: Understanding variation and change in migrant transnationalism
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".
New Series of Video Portraits from West Africa
The lives and dreams of young adults in three cities are explored in the project Future Migration as Present Fact (FUMI).
Latest events
All events
Transnational lives: the meanings and implications of living in two countries
Ensuring comparability in cross-national research on migration
Translating migration theory into empirical propositions
Visions for research on migrant transnationalism
Sampling respondents in migration surveys: challenges and trade-offs
Transnational Lives in the Welfare State: Presentation of Findings
Ten Years of Migration Research at PRIO
Borders and Art
Here's how to fix the refugee crisis! Or perhaps not?
Hva vet vi om innvandreres bånd til Norge og opprinnelseslandet?
Current projects
All projects
Migration of asylum seekers and the politics of labelling: The discursive construction of the refugee label in the Norwegian government 2016-2021
QuantMig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy
Future Migration as Present Fact (FUMI)
MIGNEX - Aligning Migration Management and the Migration-Development Nexus
Meaning of Migrants
Critical Perspectives on Migrant Smuggling
International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe (IMISCOE)
