| Principal investigator |
Jørgen Carling (Project Leader), Amanda Cellini (), Cathrine Talleraas (), Elin Martine Doeland (), Erik Snel (), Godfried Engbersen (), Grete Brochmann (), Lubomiła Korzeniewska (), Marta Bivand Erdal ()
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| Description |
A growing number of people live partly in one country and partly in another, for instance splitting work and leisure between two countries, spending part of the year in each, or living mainly in a country other than the one that provides social security. We call such lives 'transnational lives'. Some people are able to spend a lot of time in each country every year. Others are limited by work or children's school, for instance, but invest time and resources in both countries.
We are interested in transnational living because it concerns what it means to be part of a society, and because it as an aspect of globalization. We believe that more knowledge can help develop better policies and help reduce unnecessary bureaucratic frustrations. It is also essential for the welfare state to find ways of accommodating the fact that many people live partly witihin it and partly outside it.
The project carried out by researchers in Norway and the Netherlands. Research within the project will explore transnatinal lives that are lived partly in one of these two countries and partly in another country.
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