Jørgen Carling

Jørgen Carling

Research Professor in Migration Studies

Email: jorgen@prio.org

Mobile phone: (+47) 47 32 42 42

X: @jorgencarling

Website: jorgencarling.org

Interests and experience

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. I combine my background in Human Geography with perspectives from other disciplines and use both ethnographic and statistical methods. Beyond my thematic specialisms, I have an interest in academic writing, visualization and research communication. See also my personal web site.

I am Co-Director of the PRIO Migration Centre (see separate page).

My research primarily addresses these themes:

  • Theories of migration and transnationalism
  • Migration aspirations and intentions
  • Networks and chain migration processes
  • Family and gender in migration
  • Immigration policy and migration pressure
  • Border control and migrant fatalities
  • Undocumented migration and human smuggling
  • The demography of immigrant communities
  • Remittances and migration-development links

I use diverse methods, often in combination:

  • Semi-structured interviews
  • Participant observation in multi-sited fieldwork
  • Purpose-made sample surveys
  • Statistical analysis of existing survey data
  • Discourse and document analysis

Editorial board memberships

Personal profiles on other sites

Language skills

  • Mother tongue: Norwegian
  • Fluency: English, and Cape Verdean Kriol
  • Reading proficiency: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, French
  • All but forgotten: Esperanto and Japanese

Education

  • PhD, Human geography (University of Oslo, 2007)
  • Cand. polit., Human geography (University of Oslo, 2001)
  • Cand. mag., Human geography, demography and economics (University of Oslo, 1998)
  • International Baccalaureate (United World College of the Atlantic, 1993)
Work positions
2011–
Research Professor in Migration StudiesPeace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
2016
Visiting scholarUnited Nations University-MERIT, Maastricht
2010
Visiting scholarNational University of Singapore
2007–2011
Senior ResearcherPeace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
2005
Visiting scholarCOMPAS, University of Oxford
2003
Visiting scholarNetherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)
2002–2007
Doctoral researcherPeace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
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