Pakistan

Senior Researcher
Kaja Borchgrevink

Research Professor
Jørgen Carling

Research Professor in Migration Studies
Marta Bivand Erdal

Research Professor
Scott Gates

Research Professor
Kristian Berg Harpviken

08/12/2022
Case Study Briefs and other MIGNEX publications

Following the completion of data collection in 26 research areas, across 10 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, the MIGNEX project has published one Case Study Brief for each of the research areas.

29/08/2022
Funding for Project on China's 'Developmental Peace' Approach

PRIO has received funding from the Research Council of Norway for the 3-year project Developmental Peace? Local Perceptions of China’s Engagement in Pakistan and Afghanistan (AsiaPeace).

31/05/2022
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.

15/02/2022
Hope and despair in the Indus River delta: navigating the treacherous waters of capitalism, climate change and politics

PRIO Research Professor Marta Bivand Erdal together with Sehr Nisar, Prithvi Raj, Neha Ramchand, Furrukh Khan and Rashid Memon, have contributed a new blog post in the MIGNEX Insight series, entitled "Hope and despair in the Indus river delta: navigating the treacherous waters of capitalism, climate change and politics".

13/07/2021
Call for papers: Migrating from Pakistan today

We welcome abstracts for papers for a virtual workshop, to be held in October/November 2021 (date/time to be confirmed with those participating) – on the theme of Migrating from Pakistan today: Interrogating the regular/irregular divide. The workshop will be held in English, and will be closed (by invitation only).

18/12/2019
Muslim Humanitarians and the SDGs - New Project Funded

Muslim humanitarian actors are increasingly recognized as important contributors in humanitarian and development efforts. In order to take the global partnership for development seriously, it is vital to understand this rapidly changing humanitarian landscape and how the whole range of humanitarian actors are working.

The new project, The Power of Ideas: Muslim Humanitarians and the SDGs (HUMA), will address this challenge. The project has today received 3 year funding from the NORGLOBAL Programme of the Research Council of Norway.

Congratulations to project leader Kaja Borchgrevink and her project colleague at PRIO, Marta Bivand Erdal!

06/12/2019
MIGNEX Team Selects Local Areas for Data Collection

The large PRIO-led project MIGNEX examines migration and development at the local level across Africa and Asia. A milestone was reached when the specific research areas were selected.

05/03/2018
Seminar in Lahore on the Pakistani Diaspora in Norway

Kaja Borchgrevink and Marta Bivand Erdal gave a seminar on 'The Pakistani diaspora in Norway', at the Lahore School of Economics, Centre on International Migration, Remittances and Diaspora (CIMRAD), Monday 5 March 2018.

09/06/2017
Successful Doctoral Defense by Kaja Borchgrevink

Kaja Borchgrevink has defended her thesis today, 9 June 2017 'With Faith in Development: Islamic Charity as Development in Practice?' at Department of International Environment and Development Studies Noragric, Faculty of Landscape and Society at NMBU Ås Campus.

Her trial lecture:
Is women's apparently increasing involvement in religious life, including piety movements and religio-political organisations, likely to contribute to egalitarian social change in southern Asia?