QuantMig: Quantifying Migration Scenarios for Better Policy

Led by Marta Bivand Erdal

Jan 2020 – Jul 2023

QuantMig aims to transform the methodology of setting and analysing migration scenarios

The project will address the key contemporary challenges of complexity and uncertainty of migration flows, and enable more timely and robust policy responses.

PRIO is a partner on this project, which is executed by a consortium of seven top European migration research institutions, led by the University of Southampton. The project partners include: Danube University Krems (DUK), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Max Planck Society – Population Europe (MPG-PE), Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), and the University of Oslo (UiO). Besides, an external partner is Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) from Canada.

06/05/2022
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.

17/02/2022
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.

19/03/2021
How can we best ask about migration plans and desires?

Over the past few decades, thousands of people have responded to survey questions about their thoughts and feelings about possibly migrating. The resulting data can be valuable in migration research but are as good as the questions that are asked in survey. A new paper looks in depth at question formulations and creates an inventory of data.

17/02/2021
What makes people want to migrate?

Thousands of people have responded to surveys with questions about their wishes or plans for migration and researchers have analyzed the data to identify the drivers. But until now, the results have been fragmented. In the first-ever systematic literature review four PRIO researchers map out what makes people want to migrate.

Mathias Czaika, Marta Bivand Erdal & Cathrine Talleraas (2023)
Exploring Europe’s external migration policy mix: on the interactions of visa, readmission, and resettlement policies

Journal Article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Jonas Vestby, Andreas Forø Tollefsen & Halvard Buhaug (2022)
Climate and International Migration Flows: A Sensitivity Analysis of Gravity Model Specifications

Report - External Series

Maryam Aslany, Jørgen Carling, Mathilde Bålsrud Mjelva & Tone Sommerfelt (2021)
Systematic review of determinants of migration aspirations

Report - External Series

Jørgen Carling & Mathilde Bålsrud Mjelva (2021)
Survey instruments and survey data on migration aspirations

Report - External Series

Jørgen Carling (2021)
What makes people want to migrate? One chart sums it up