Additional positions:
Researcher at CMI, Bergen
Cathrine Talleraas’ research interests span migration policy, management, transnationalism and humanitarianism. At PRIO, she is currently contributing to the H2020 project "QuantMig" and the "CONMIG" project. At the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Cathrine is PI of the NordForsk funded project "Effects of Externalisation: EU Migration Management in Africa and the Middle East " where she focuses on migration policy in West Africa
Cathrine holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Oslo (2020). In her PhD research, she studied how state institutions engage with people who lead transnational lives. Her doctoral thesis "Institutionalising transnationalism: The national welfare system’s encounter with people who lead transnational lives" is available here. She is currently co-chair of the IMISCOE Standing Committee "Migration Politics and Governance" and a board member in the Standing Committee "Reflexive Migration Studies". In 2017-2018 she coordinated the IMISCOE PhD-Network.
Cathrine holds an MSc in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford, where her thesis focused on the effects and consequences of migration policy, using the readmission agreement between Ethiopia and Norway as a case study. She holds an MA in Human Geography from the University of Oslo, where she wrote about migration policy in Senegal and the role of policies in determining patterns of migration.
Journal Article in Population, Space and Place
PhD Thesis
Book Chapter in Institutional Ethnography in the Nordic Region
Journal Article in Ethnic and Racial Studies
PRIO Paper
PRIO Policy Brief
PRIO Policy Brief
Journal Article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
PRIO Paper
PRIO Policy Brief
PRIO congratulates Cathrine Talleraas, who has successfully defended her doctoral thesis at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography in the Faculty of Social Sciences at UiO.
The Migration Research Hub collects research on migration and makes it easily searchable and shareable. For the first time, information on publications, research projects, datasets and experts has been brought together in one fully-searchable database, underpinned by a taxonomy created and refined by experts in migration from a wide range of angles.
The 15th Annual Conference of IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe), Barcelona, 2–4 July 2018
We invite abstracts for an exploratory workshop in Oslo, 11-12 January 2018, that will examine the significance and implications of leading life in two (or more) countries.
Proposed changes in Norway's immigration could have adverse effects on integration, discriminate against persons with disabilities, and undermine democratic control.