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

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?

Evaluation committee:

First opponent: Emeritus Professor Carole Rakodi, University of Birmingham, UK

Second opponent: Dr. Tamsin Bradley, University of Portsmouth, UK

Committee coordinator: Dr. Poul Wisborg, Noragric, NMBU, Norway

Supervisors:

Associate Professor Ingrid Nyborg, Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), NMBU

Dr. Kristian Berg Harpviken, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway

01/04/2016
PRIO Gender, Peace and Security Update (Issue 1-2016)

The lead story in this issue of the GPS Update is Kaja Borchgrevink's research on women engaging in Islamic charity seen as 'development agents'.

05/12/2014
Where is 'home'?

Considerations about return are a persistent dimension of identity work in migrant populations. The question of where and what constitutes ‘home’ for migrants is central to understanding processes of integration in settlement contexts. Simultaneously, where and what constitutes ‘home’ sheds light on motivations for sustained transnational ties, but also on return considerations, ranging from planning and actually returning, to an ongoing myth of future return, or a decision of staying put.

Read more at the PRIO blog.

Marta Bivand Erdal (2021)
Migrants’ Multifocal Sedentarism: Ambivalent Belonging and Desired Recognition in Transnational Social Fields Connecting Pakistan and Norway

Journal Article in Journal of Intercultural Studies

Kaja Borchgrevink & Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (2021)
The afterlife of buzzwords: the journey of rightsbased approaches through the humanitarian sector

Journal Article in The International Journal of Human Rights

Kaja Borchgrevink (2021)
Negotiating rights and faith: A study of rights‐based approaches to humanitarian action in Pakistan

Journal Article in Disasters

Paolo Boccagni & Marta Bivand Erdal (2020)
On the theoretical potential of ‘remittance houses’: Toward a research agenda across emigration contexts

Journal Article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Kaja Borchgrevink, Marta Bivand Erdal & Gina Lende (2020)
Viktige, muslimske ledere

Popular Article in Vårt Land

Kaja Borchgrevink (2019)
Rights-Based and Faith-Based? Approaches to Aid in Pakistan

PRIO Policy Brief

Kaja Borchgrevink (2019)
Agents of Change: Women’s Religious Practice and Development Engagement in Pakistan

Journal Article in Religion and Gender

Marta Bivand Erdal & Ceri Oeppen (2017)
Forced to leave? The discursive and analytical significance of describing migration as forced and voluntary

Journal Article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Kaja Borchgrevink & Marta Bivand Erdal (2017)
With faith in development: Organizing transnational Islamic charity

Journal Article in Progress in Development Studies

Kaja Borchgrevink & Marta Bivand Erdal (2017)
The Circulation of Transnational Islamic Charity

Book Chapter in Migration and Social Remittances in a Global Europe

Marta Bivand Erdal & Ceri Oeppen (2017)
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

Marta Bivand Erdal (2017)
Pakistani diaspora communities in Norway: Part of a transnational social field for how long?

Book Chapter in The Pakistani Diaspora: Corridors of Opportunity and Uncertainty

Marta Bivand Erdal (2017)
Timespaces of return migration: The interplay of everyday practices and imaginaries of return in transnational social fields

Book Chapter in Timespace and International Migration

Marta Bivand Erdal (2016)
Juxtaposing Pakistani diaspora policy with migrants’ transnational citizenship practices

Journal Article in Geoforum

Kristian Berg Harpviken & Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh (2016)
A Rock Between Hard Places: Afghanistan as an Arena of Regional Insecurity

Monograph

Marta Bivand Erdal & Kaja Borchgrevink (2016)
Transnational Islamic charity as everyday rituals

Journal Article in Global Networks

Jenny Lorentzen & Julie Marie Hansen (2016)
Women Engaging in Islamic Charity as ‘Development Agents’

Newsletter

Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh (2016)
Regional Responses to Radicalization in Afghanistan: Obstacles, Opportunities and an Agenda for Action

PRIO Paper

(2015)
The diaspora meets the ‘development industry’: Engaging Norwegian-Pakistanis in development back home

Book Chapter in International Migration and Development In South Asia

Zain Ul Abdin & Marta Bivand Erdal (2015)
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

Thursday, 23 Jan 2020 08:30-10:00
The Kashmir Conflict: Implications for South Asia & Beyond

Thursday, 15 Mar 2018 08:30-09:30
Afghanistan: Broadening the Aperture

Wednesday, 07 Sep 2016 13:00-14:00
Regional Security in South Asia: Global Prospects and Challenges

Thursday, 23 Jun 2016 09:00-15:00
Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Region: Stakeholder Perspectives and Analysts Views

Monday, 20 Jun 2016 14:00-15:30
FATA - The Way to Peace through Education

Tuesday, 01 Dec 2015 08:45-12:00
Religiøs praksis, sosialt engasjement og utviklingsarbeid - perspektiver fra Pakistan og Oslo

Thursday, 18 Dec 2014 17:30-20:00
Islamic charity in Norway: exploring a well hidden secret

Thursday, 18 Dec 2014 09:00-11:00
Blessing or Blockage? Religion and Development in Pakistan

Monday, 01 Sep 2014 14:00-16:00
Cancelled: Democracy and Law in the Quest for Peace in South Asia

Thursday, 29 Nov 2012 10:00-12:00
Winning Hearts and Minds

Wednesday, 10 Oct 2012 09:30-11:30
Islamic Charity and Development: Can the two Converge?

Jul 2020 – Jun 2023
The Power of Ideas: Muslim Humanitarians and the SDGs (HUMA)

Jun 2018 – Aug 2023
MIGNEX - Aligning Migration Management and the Migration-Development Nexus

Oct 2014 – Jul 2019
Transnational Lives in the Welfare State (TRANSWEL)

Apr 2011 – Dec 2015
Private Islamic Charity and Approaches to Poverty Reduction

Apr 2011 – Jun 2017
With Faith in Development: Islamic Charity as Development in Practice?

Jun 2010 – Dec 2016
Possibilities and Realities of Return Migration (PREMIG)

May 2010 – Jun 2011
Pakistan’s Madrasas: Moderation or Militancy?

Jul 2009 – Nov 2016
Afghanistan in a Neighbourhood Perspective

Jan 2008 – Sep 2009
The Transnational System of Religious Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Thursday, 28 May 2020
Ramadan and Social Responsibility During Coronavirus

Wednesday, 6 Mar 2019
Could There Be War in South Asia?

Wednesday, 7 Mar 2018
Afghanistan – a new chapter in the Great Game?

Thursday, 1 Oct 2015
Pakistan’s Crippling Energy Crisis and Increasing Remittances

Monday, 24 Aug 2015
Return Migration: Pakistan as a Return Migration Destination

Friday, 10 Oct 2014
Peace for the Next Generation

Tuesday, 10 Jun 2014
The Unintended Consequences of Education among Pakistani Migrants to the UK

Monday, 9 Jun 2014
Renewed Violence in Pakistan

Sunday, 8 Jun 2014
The Taliban are an Organized Fighting Force

Australia

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