I do research on global migration, immobility and transnationalism. My work seeks to explain how migration arises, and how it affects societies, families and individuals. These broad questions have led to research on a range of specialized topics, including migrant smuggling, and remittance transactions, and migration aspirations. My theoretical contributions to migration studies include the aspiration/ability model (2002), the concept of involuntary immobility (2002), the asymmetries of migrant transnationalism (2008), the integration-transnationalism matrix (2014) and the scripting of remittances (2014). I combine my background in Human Geography with perspectives from other disciplines and use both ethnographic and statistical methods. Beyond my thematic specialisms, l have a strong interest in academic writing, visualization and research communication.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 505 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5520-3444 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorgencarling/ | |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/jorgencarling |
| Researcher ID | A-7190-2008 |
| ResearchGate | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jorgen_Carling |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
- Urban/Rural development and living standards
- Poverty and inequality
- Conflict, war and violence
- Migration governance and infrastructure
- Migration policy and other public policies
- Personal resources and migration experience
- Migrant communities and networks
- Migrant aspirations and attitudes
- Transnational ties
- Family size and structure
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
Migration governance
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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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Other
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Qualitative research
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Quantitative research
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Types of study
Geographies
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Scope
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UN Countries
Roles
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PRIO
Research Institute, Oslo, Norway
Research Professor -
Peace Research Institute Oslo
Research Institute, Oslo, Norway
Research Professor
Research
Why Do People Migrate? Fresh Takes on the Foundational Question of Migration Studies
| Authors | Jørgen Carling |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
Mixed methods: bridging the qualitative–quantitative divide in migration research
| Authors | Jørgen Carling |
| Year | 2024 |
| Book Title | How to Do Migration Research | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The phrase ‘refugees and migrants’ undermines analysis, policy and protection
| Authors | Jørgen Carling |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
| Citations (WoS) | 10 |
Living in two countries: Transnational living as an alternative to migration
| Authors | Jørgen Carling, Marta Bivand Erdal, Cathrine Talleraas |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Population, Space and Place |
New economics of transnational living
| Authors | Marta Bivand Erdal, Jørgen Carling |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Population, Space and Place |
Circumstantial migration: how Gambian journeys to China enrich migration theory
| Authors | Jørgen Carling, Heidi Østbø Haugen |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
CrossMigration
| Principal investigator | Peter Scholten (Project co-ordinator), Asya Pisarevskaya (Project manager), Nathan Levy (Project manager), Adham Aly (Project assistant) |
| Description | |
| Year | 2018 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Aspiration, desire and drivers of migration
| Authors | Jørgen Carling, Francis Collins |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 21 |
Revisiting aspiration and ability in international migration
| Authors | Jørgen Carling, Kerilyn Schewel |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 15 |
Visualizing the transnational connections of China’s most African neighbourhood
| Authors | Jørgen Carling |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space |
Refugee Advocacy and the Meaning of ‘Migrants’
| Authors | Carling Jørgen |
| Year | 2017 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Root Causes and Drivers of Migration: Implications for Humanitarian Efforts and Development Cooperation, PRIO Paper.
| Authors | C. Talleraas, J. Carling |
| Year | 2016 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
A landmark in the landscape of migration studies
| Authors | Jørgen Carling |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 |
Possibilities and Realities of Return Migration
| Authors | Jørgen Carling, Marta Bolognani, Marta Bivand Erdal, ... |
| Description | |
| Year | 2015 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The International Migration Review at 50: Reflecting on Half a Century of International Migration Research and Looking Ahead
| Authors | Jennifer Lee, Jørgen Carling, Pia Orrenius |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 |
Scripting Remittances: Making Sense of Money Transfers in Transnational Relationships
| Authors | Jørgen Carling |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
Return Migration Intentions in the Integration–Transnationalism Matrix
| Authors | Jørgen Carling, Silje Vatne Pettersen |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
Measuring remittances through surveys
| Authors | Richard Brown, Melissa Siegel, Sonja Fransen, ... |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Demographic Research |
| Citations (WoS) | 4 |
Return Migration and Transnationalism: How Are the Two Connected?
| Authors | Jørgen Carling, Marta Bivand Erdal |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
Private money, public scrutiny? Contrasting perspectives on remittances
| Authors | CINDY HORST, MARTA BIVAND ERDAL, JØRGEN CARLING, ... |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Global Networks |
| Citations (WoS) | 9 |
Beyond the insider–outsider divide in migration research
| Authors | Jørgen Carling, Marta Bivand Erdal, Rojan Ezzati |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 32 |
Fathers' whereabouts and children's welfare in Malawi
| Authors | Jørgen Carling, Marianne Tønnessen |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Development Southern Africa | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migration aspirations in Senegal: Who wants to leave and why does it matter?
| Authors | J. Carling, P.D. Fall, M. Hernández-Carretero, ... |
| Year | 2013 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The Capacity and Desire to Remit: Comparing Local and Transnational Influences
| Authors | Jørgen Carling, Kristian Hoelscher |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 26 |
How does Conflict in Migrants’ Country of Origin Affect Remittance-Sending? Financial Priorities and Transnational Obligations among Somalis and Pakistanis in Norway
| Authors | Jørgen Carling, Marta Bivand Erdal, Cindy Horst |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
| Citations (WoS) | 25 |
Collecting, Analysing and Presenting Migration Histories
| Authors | Jørgen Carling |
| Year | 2012 |
| Book Title | Handbook of Research Methods in Migration |
Central Themes in the Study of Transnational Parenthood
| Authors | Jørgen Carling, Cecilia Menjívar, Leah Schmalzbauer |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Mobility, Moralities and Motherhood: Navigating the Contingencies of Cape Verdean Lives
| Authors | Lisa Åkesson, Jørgen Carling, Heike Drotbohm |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Beyond "Kamikaze Migrants": Risk Taking in West African Boat Migration to Europe
| Authors | Maria Hernandez-Carretero, Jorgen Carling |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Human Organization |
| Citations (WoS) | 20 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Protecting Europe and Protecting Migrants? Strategies for Managing Unauthorised Migration from Africa
| Authors | Jørgen Carling, María Hernández-Carretero |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | The British Journal of Politics and International Relations | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Mobility at the Heart of a Nation: Patterns and Meanings of Cape Verdean Migration
| Authors | Jørgen Carling, Lisa Åkesson |
| Year | 2009 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
| Citations (WoS) | 27 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Toward a Demography of Immigrant Communities and Their Transnational Potential
| Authors | Jørgen Carling |
| Year | 2008 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
| Citations (WoS) | 18 |
The determinants of migrant remittances
| Authors | J. Carling |
| Year | 2008 |
| Journal Name | OXFORD REVIEW OF ECONOMIC POLICY |
The human dynamics of migrant transnationalism
| Authors | J⊘rgen Carling |
| Year | 2008 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 116 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Unauthorized Migration from Africa to Spain
| Authors | Jørgen Carling |
| Year | 2007 |
| Journal Name | International Migration |
Migration Control and Migrant Fatalities at the Spanish-African Borders
| Authors | Jørgen Carling |
| Year | 2007 |
| Journal Name | International Migration Review |
| Citations (WoS) | 99 |
Legal, Rapid and Reasonably Priced? A Survey of Remittance Services in Norway
| Authors | Jørgen Carling, Marta Bivand Erdal, Cindy Horst, ... |
| Description | |
| Year | 2007 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
On the edge of the Chinese diaspora: The surge of baihuo business in an African city
| Authors | Heidi Østbø Haugen, Jørgen Carling |
| Year | 2005 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 62 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migrant Remittances and Development Cooperation
| Authors | Jørgen Carling |
| Description | |
| Year | 2005 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Emigration, return and development in Cape Verde: the impact of closing borders
| Authors | Jørgen Carling |
| Year | 2004 |
| Journal Name | Population, Space and Place |
Cartographies of Cape Verdean transnationalism
| Authors | Jørgen Carling |
| Year | 2003 |
| Journal Name | Global Networks |
Migration in the age of involuntary immobility: Theoretical reflections and Cape Verdean experiences
| Authors | J⊘rgen Carling |
| Year | 2002 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
The multi-level determinants of international migration aspirations in 25 communities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
| Authors | Jessica Hagen-Zanker, Jørgen Carling, Nicolás Caso, ... |
| Year | 2000 |
| Journal Name | World Development | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Surveys on migration aspirations, plans and intentions: a comprehensive overview
| Authors | Mathilde Bålsrud Mjelva, Jørgen Carling |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Open Research Europe | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Author Correction: Climatic conditions are weak predictors of asylum migration
| Authors | Sebastian Schutte, Jonas Vestby, Jørgen Carling, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Nature Communications | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Climatic conditions are weak predictors of asylum migration
| Authors | Sebastian Schutte, Jonas Vestby, Jørgen Carling, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Nature Communications | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Exploring 12 Migration Corridors: Rationale, Methodology and Overview
| Authors | Dominique Jolivet, Jørgen Carling |
| Book Title | Beyond Networks | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Making and Breaking a Chain: Migrants’ Decisions about Helping Others Migrate
| Authors | Jørgen Carling |
| Book Title | Beyond Networks | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Immigration Worldwide: Policies, Practices, and Trends
| Authors | Jørgen Carling |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Book Review: Gender and Migration in Southern Europe: Women on the Move
| Authors | Jørgen Carling |
| Year | 2002 |
| Journal Name | Asian and Pacific Migration Journal |