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PREMIG is a large-scale research project that explores return migration from Norway and the United Kingdom. The project is premised on the idea that the possibility of return - not just actual return - is an important phenomenon. Many immigrants in Europe are considering returning to their country of origin. In most cases, return is a future option rather than a short-term plan. The possibility of return can nevertheless be important in its own right: experiences of marginalization can stimulate plans for return. Furthermore, the prospect of return might lessen commitment to integration. The possibility of return can also be central to migrants’ transnational relationships with people in their country of origin.
Return migration has many faces: for some migrants it is a dream that they hope to realize. Others live in fear of being returned against their will. PREMIG takes a broad approach and aims to cover the diverse aspects of return migration.
Summary report
Evaluating Assisted Return
Many asylum seekers who opt for assisted return come home to countries ruined by war and conflicts. More than half of the persons who return to countries like Afghanistan and Iraq plan to remigrate. A new evaluation of assisted return programms shows that small and uncostly changes can increase the chances that people stay.
Successful Doctoral Defence by Tove Heggli Sagmo
Today, Tuesday 15 March, Tove Heggli Sagmo has successfully defended her doctoral thesis at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo: Return Migration and Social Change: Creating Distinctions in the Social Field.
Call for papers: Mobilizing value across time and space
We invite abstracts for a session at the RGS-IBG Annual Intrenational Conference (Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers), London, 30 August - 2 September, 2016. Deadline for abstracts: 3 February 2016.
Call for papers: The interactions between integration and migrants’ transnational development activities
We invite abstracts for a session at the 13th IMISCOE conference (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe), Prague 30 June – 2 July 2016. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 18 January 2016.
Call for Papers: Engaging with Scenarios of Return Migration
Engaging with Scenarios of Return Migration
Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) 20–21 August 2015
Always an Immgrant - Never Norwegian
Immigrants have become integrated into Norwegian society with degrees of success that range between two possible extremes: strong attachment and total alienation. In debates about integration, ethnicity and country of origin are often claimed to be the key factors for determining whether or not integration will be successful. Other important factors are seen as secondary. This contributes to the one-track nature of debates about integration.
Why Assisted Return Programmes Must Be Evaluated
Rejected asylum seekers often resist the legal obligation to return. Consequently, European policy makers tasked with migration managament have turned to so-called ‘Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration programmes’ (AVRRs) to incentivize return to and support reintegration in the country of origin. Such programmes are described as less politically costly, more humane, simpler and cheaper than deportation. But with very limited monitoring and evaluation of AVRRs we know little about how well they work and whether the promised support is given. A recent policy brief outlines some of the compelling reasons to monitor and evaluate AVRRs.
Interactions between Integration and Transnationalism
Senior researcher Marta Bivand Erdal and Ceri Oeppen have co-edited a special issue of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Interactions between Integration and Transnationalism. The special issue is the result of a panel organised by Erdal and Oeppen at the Royal Geographic Society/Institute of British Geographers annual conference in 2010.
Blog post on "Migration and New Norwegian Foreign Policy Realities"
In Norway, questions of immigration have traditionally been a domestic affair. However, as an increasing number of Norwegian citizens with a migrant background are engaging in humanitarian aid and development initiatives in their countries of origin, questions of integration are tied to those of foreign policy. How do Norwegian authorities cope with the realities of migrants’ attachment to people and places beyond the Norwegian borders? How is Norwegian development policy to engage with migrants’ contributions to development and peace-building initiatives in their countries of origin?
PRIO researchers Marta Bivand Erdal and Rojan Ezzati discuss these issues in a blog post as part of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Refleks project. To read the blog post (in Norwegian), please follow this link.
A seminar on the same topic will be held at PRIO on Friday 16 November.
Marta Bivand Erdal obtains PhD on Transnationalism and Remittances
Marta Bivand Erdal has successfully defended her PhD in Human Geography at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo. The title of her dissertation is "Transnational ties and belonging: Remittances from Pakistani migrants in Norway".
Forced to return? Agency and the role of post-return mobility for wellbeing among returnees to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Poland
Book Chapter in Return Migration and Wellbeing: Discourses, Policy-Making and Outcomes for Migrants and Their Families
Reproducing, transforming and contesting gender relations and identities through migration and transnational ties
Journal Article in Gender, Place and Culture
Timespaces of return migration: The interplay of everyday practices and imaginaries of return in transnational social fields
Book Chapter in Timespace and International Migration
Moving citizens: Citizenship practices among Polish migrants in Norway and the United Kingdom
Journal Article in Social Identities
Polish migration within Europe: mobility, transnationalism and integration
Journal Article in Social Identities
When Poland became the main country of birth among Catholics in Norway’: Exploring the interface of Polish migrants’ everyday narratives and Church responses to a rapid demographic re-constitution
Book Chapter in Migration, Transnationalism and Catholicism: Global Perspectives
Juxtaposing Pakistani diaspora policy with migrants’ transnational citizenship practices
Journal Article in Geoforum
Liquid migration, grounded lives: considerations about future mobility and settlement among Polish and Spanish migrants in Norway
Journal Article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
The role of corruption in reintegration: experiences of Iraqi Kurds upon return from Europe
Journal Article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Return Imaginaries and Political Climate: Comparing Thinking About Return Mobilities Among Pakistani Origin Migrants and Descendants in Norway and the UK
Journal Article in Journal of International Migration and Integration
Limited but enduring transnational ties? Transnational family life among Polish migrants in Norway
Journal Article in Polish Diaspora Review (Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny)
Remittance-sending among Pakistani taxi-drivers in Barcelona and Oslo: Implications of migration-trajectories and the protracted electricity crisis in Pakistan
Journal Article in Migration and Development
Going Back to Pakistan for Education? The Interplay of Return Mobilities, Education, and Transnational Living
Journal Article in Population, Space and Place
Alder, botid og livsfase: Integrering i et tidsperspektiv
PRIO Policy Brief
Age, life cycle, and length of stay: temporal perspectives on integration
PRIO Policy Brief
The Matrix of Attachment
PRIO Policy Brief
Pakistan as a Return Migration Destination
PRIO Policy Brief
The role of social capital in post-conflict business development: perspectives from returning migrants in Burundi
Book Chapter in Africa's Return Migrants: the New Developers?
Finding Connections: The Nexus between Migration and Corruption
Journal Article in Migration Information Source
'Where are you from' or 'when did you come'? Temporal dimensions in migrants' reflections about settlement and return
Journal Article in Ethnic and Racial Studies
Når foreldre frykter staten
Popular Article in Vårt Land
The social dynamics of remittance-receiving in Pakistan: Agency and opportunity among non-migrants in a transnational social field
Book Chapter in Migrant Remittances In South Asia Social, Economic and Political Implications
Når blir du norsk?
Popular Article in Aftenposten
Can Afghans Reintegrate after Assisted Return from Europe?
PRIO Policy Brief
Tilknytningsmatrisen
PRIO Policy Brief
How Polish Migrants in Norway Consider Return Migration
PRIO Policy Brief
Possibilities and Realities of Return Migration
PRIO Project Summary
Unintended consequences of education for Pakistani immigrants and their descendants in the United Kingdom
PRIO Paper
Evig innvandrer, aldri norsk
Popular Article in Bergens Tidende
The Unintended Effects of Norway’s Readmission Agreement with Ethiopia
PRIO Policy Brief
Return Migration and Transnationalism: How Are the Two Connected?
Journal Article in International Migration
Transnationalism in a Comparative Perspective: An Introduction
Journal Article in Comparative Migration Studies
Elites and emulators: the evolution of an Iraqi Kurdish - European migration system
Conference Paper
Iraqi Kurdistan: Partner Under Pressure
PRIO Policy Brief
Why Assisted Return Programmes Must Be Evaluated
PRIO Policy Brief
‘This is My Home’: Pakistani and Polish Migrants’ Return Considerations as Articulations About ‘Home’
Journal Article in Comparative Migration Studies
Return Migration Intentions in the Integration–Transnationalism Matrix
Journal Article in International Migration
Nationalism Under Pressure: Islamic State, Iraq and Kurdistan
Popular Article in ISN Security Watch
Beyond the Insider–Outsider Divide in Migration Research
Journal Article in Migration Studies
Praca i rodzina: Rozważania o powrocie wśród Polaków mieszkających w Norwegii
Journal Article in Studia Migracyjne-Przegląd Polonijny
Avleggs statsborgerskapslov
Popular Article in Dagens Næringsliv
Not Just a Personal Decision: Moral Obligations and Collective Pressures on Return to Zimbabwe
Journal Article in African Diaspora
Kan Irak fikses?
Popular Article in Dagsavisen
Vaklende løsrivelse
Popular Article in Morgenbladet
Nasjonalisme under press
Popular Article in Dagens Næringsliv
Stillheten om retur til Etiopia
Popular Article in Ytring
Return Visits as a Marker of Differentiation in the Social Field
Journal Article in Mobilities
Why are Zimbabwean migrants ambivalent about return? Insights from the project 'Possibilities and Realities of Return Migration'
PRIO Policy Brief
Når ute også er hjemme. Migrasjon og utenrikspolitikk
Book Chapter in Norge og det nye verdenskartet
Norge og det nye verdenskartet
Popular Article in Dagsavisen
Mindre norsk med to pass
Popular Article in Ytring
Tillit til staten
Popular Article in Dagbladet
Migrasjon og nye utenrikspolitiske realiteter
Report - Other
A Systematic Bibliography on Return Migration
PRIO Paper
Hva vet vi om innvandreres bånd til Norge og opprinnelseslandet?
Thinking About Going 'Home'
Frokostseminar: Innvandreres tilknytning til Norge og sitt opphavsland
Reintegration of Returnees and Deportees to Afghanistan
Humanitarianism and Return: Compromising protection?
What's Time Got to Do With It? Integration in a Temporal Perspective
Cancelled: The 'Islamic State' and the Kurds - a seminar with Salih Muslim
Norway's Readmission Agreement with Ethiopia: What Happened?
How do Migration Researchers' Background Affect Their Research?
Why return to Afghanistan?
