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 in the migration-corruption nexus. I have also taken part in a string of evaluations of assisted return from Norway to Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Kosovo.
Building on those experiences, I'm now coordinating the project Deporting Foreigners: Contested Norms in International Practice (NORMS, 2021-2024). NORMS cmpoaratively explores the norm dynamics of deportation from both host and origin state perspectives, in Norway, Sweden, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Ethiopia, and moroever within the EU's border agency, Frontex.
Previously, I have been affiliated with the Centre of Excellence in the Study of Civil War (CSCW) and the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), as well as the Department of Sociology and Human Geography and the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo, where I taught 'migration control'. I have also been a visiting scholar at the University of Sussex and at the University of Oxford.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 1662 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8344-7881 |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Transversal consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Migration policy and law
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Governance processes
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Qualitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
Roles
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Norwegian Institute for Social Research
Research Institute, Oslo, Norway
Senior Researcher
Research
Selecting Refugees for Resettlement to Norway and Canada: Vulnerability, Integration and Discretion
| Authors | Erlend Paasche, Dagmar Soennecken, Ritika Tanotra |
| Year | 2024 |
| Book Title | Between Protection and Harm | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
The role of corruption in reintegration: experiences of Iraqi Kurds upon return from Europe
| Authors | Erlend Paasche |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 6 |
Elites and emulators: The evolution of Iraqi Kurdish asylum migration to Europe
| Authors | Erlend Paasche |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Migration Studies |
Young adults of ethnic minority background on the Norwegian labour market: The interactional co-construction of exclusion by employers and customers
| Authors | Katrine Fangen, Erlend Paasche |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Ethnicities |
| Citations (WoS) | 6 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Possibilities and Realities of Return Migration
| Authors | Jørgen Carling, Marta Bolognani, Marta Bivand Erdal, ... |
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| Year | 2015 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |