I am a senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Social Research, whose interests have taken me to fieldworks in Syria, Iraq, Kosovo and Nigeria. While I have researched a variety of issues, ranging from selection criteria in refugee resettlement to border control at airports and human trafficking, my core competence lies in the field of return migration and return policies. In my doctoral research I examined return migration to Iraqi Kurdistan, which also triggered a longstanding interest...
Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1662
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8344-7881

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  • Norwegian Institute for Social Research

    Research Institute, Oslo, Norway
    Senior Researcher

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Possibilities and Realities of Return Migration

Authors Jørgen Carling, Marta Bolognani, Marta Bivand Erdal, ...
Description
This report presents insights from the research project Possibilities and Realities of Return Migration (PREMIG), funded by the Research Council of Norway and led by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Over a five-year period, a core group of eight researchers in Norway and the United Kingdom studied return migration from multiple perspectives. They drew upon statistical analyses and face-to-face interaction with more than five hundered migrants and returnees in seven countries.
Year 2015
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