Migration

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PRIO Migration Centre

The PRIO Migration Centre examines how states, groups and individuals engage with, and are affected by migration.

Event

Thursday, 02 Jun 2022 09:00-10:30

Seeking Refuge in Greece: Local and EU Responses, Taking Stock and Looking Ahead

Please be invited to this breakfast seminar where a panel of speakers will discuss local and EU responses to migrants seeking refuge in Greece, and reflect on what can be learned from these responses against the background of people fleeing the war in Ukraine.

Time: 02 Jun 2022 09:00-10:30

Place: PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo

News

Friday, 13 May 2022

PhD-Level Course: Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology

PRIO invites applications for this course, which will be taught in person in Oslo in September 2022. The application deadline is 10 June.

News
Publications
Blog posts
Recordings

Event Recording

Friday, 20 May 2022 09:00-11:30

01:37:24

Refugee Education Reimagined: A Pedagogy of Hope

Join us for a morning of research findings, animations and debate on how education can enable refugees and communities to build durable futures when there is great uncertainty about where these futures will be.

Event Recording

Thursday, 12 May 2022 14:00-15:30

01:28:12

Helping Refugees from Ukraine and Preventing Exploitation

Kindly be invited to this panel discussing measures to prevent human trafficking in the context of the war in Ukraine, between volunteers’ crucial assistance and governments’ measures to control and gain oversight, hosted by PRIO and co-organized with the Polish Embassy in Norway.

News

Thursday, 28 Apr 2022

Call for Bids: Developing Comics and Educational Kit on Migration and Social Mobility

As part of the European Research Council funded 'Migration Rhythms in Trajectories of Upward Social Mobility in Asia' project, PRIO invites bids to develop comics based on family history interviews to be collected in four Asian cities in 2023.

PRIO Blogs

Tuesday, 12 Apr 2022

Different Responses to Mobility at Europe’s Borders

In the weeks since Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine significant proportions of Ukraine’s population has gone on the move, the majority of whom are internally displaced. By 29th March 2022, 4 million people had fled Ukraine across borders to neighbouring countries: Poland (2 million in 3 weeks), Slovakia, Hungary, Romania ...

Event Recording

Wednesday, 30 Mar 2022 15:00-16:00

01:02:31

INSPIRE Seminar Series: Research and Creation in Sites of Ethical Demand - Models of Conduct and Practice

Please be invited to second INSPIRE seminar this spring with artist, writer and researcher Lois Klassen.

News

Friday, 13 May 2022

PhD-Level Course: Ethnographic Fieldwork Methodology

PRIO invites applications for this course, which will be taught in person in Oslo in September 2022. The application deadline is 10 June.

News

Friday, 6 May 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.

News

Thursday, 21 Apr 2022

Kelly Fisher Is the New Coordinator of the PRIO Migration Centre

Kelly Fisher takes over from Mathias Hatleskog Tjønn as the coordinator of the PRIO Migration Centre. He holds an MA in Gender Studies and is a Research Assistant working on several migration-related projects.

PRIO Paper

2022

External Voting among Central European Migrants Living in Western Europe

By Michał Kotnarowski, Kacper Szulecki, Toma Burean, Marta Bivand Erdal, Ivo Iliev, Gunda Reire, Ben Stanley Ben Stanley, Jogile Ulinskaite & Veronika Zapletalová

Journal Article

2022

Third Country Processing Regimes and the Violation of the Principle of Non-Refoulement: a Case Study of Australia’s Pacific Solution

By Ayşe Bala Akal in Journal of International Migration and Integration

Upcoming events

Event

Thursday, 02 Jun 2022 09:00-10:30

Seeking Refuge in Greece: Local and EU Responses, Taking Stock and Looking Ahead

People

Kristian Berg Harpviken

Research Professor

Halvard Buhaug

Research Professor

Mete Hatay

Senior Research Consultant

Andreas Forø Tollefsen

Senior Researcher

Cindy Horst

Research Professor

Jørgen Carling

Research Professor

Marta Bivand Erdal

Research Professor in Migration Studies

Simon Reid-Henry

Research Professor

Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert

Research Director

Cathrine Talleraas

Senior Researcher

Katarzyna Grabska

Senior Researcher

Mohamed Aden Hassan

PRIO Global Fellow

Bruno Oliveira Martins

Senior Researcher

Trude Stapnes

Doctoral Researcher

Hassan Aden

Doctoral Researcher

Sebastian Schutte

Senior Researcher

Carmen Geha

Mathilde Bålsrud Mjelva

Doctoral Researcher

Kelly Fisher

Research Assistant

Tone Sommerfelt

Senior Researcher

Jessica Hagen-Zanker

PRIO Global Fellow

Aida Ibričević

PRIO Global Fellow

Kerstin Fisk

Senior Researcher

Carlos Vargas-Silva

Senior Researcher

Maisie Fitzmaurice

Research Assistant

Malin Nærum Aadalen

Research Assistant

Maryam Aslany

Senior Researcher

Eirin Haugseth

Doctoral Researcher

Ayşe Bala Akal

Research Assistant

Caroline Ndirangu

Sarah Dryden-Peterson

Vidur Chopra

Abdirahman Edle Ali

Joumana Talhouk

Ida Marlene Henriksen

Master's Student

Eva Chalkiadaki

Master's Student

Audrey Kathleen Geissinger

Doctoral Researcher

Lise Endregard Hemat

Master's Student

Elinor Zoë Karl

Research Assistant

Projects

Jan 2016 –

Critical Perspectives on Migrant Smuggling

Led by Jørgen Carling

Jan 2017 –

Meaning of Migrants

Led by Jørgen Carling

Jul 2017 –

To Restore a Hospital as Resistance: Transformative Collective Action in Northern Somalia in the 1980s (PhD)

Led by Ebba Tellander

Aug 2017 – Jul 2022

Humanitarianism, Borders, and the Governance of Mobility: The EU and the 'Refugee Crisis'

Led by Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert

Mar 2018 –

Refugee Education. Building Durable Futures (PhD)

Led by Hassan Aden

Apr 2018 – Jul 2022

Refugee Education: Building Durable Futures (REBuilD)

Led by Cindy Horst

Jun 2018 – Aug 2023

MIGNEX - Aligning Migration Management and the Migration-Development Nexus

Led by Jørgen Carling

Dec 2018 – Dec 2023

Future Migration as Present Fact (FUMI)

Led by Jørgen Carling

Jan 2019 – Dec 2023

Education and Displacement: An Impact Evaluation of an Accelerated Education Programme in Uganda

Led by Gudrun Østby

Jan 2019 – Dec 2022

EducAid: Improving Education for Rohingya Refugees from Myanmar Living in Bangladesh

Led by Gudrun Østby