Peace Research Institute Oslo
Jørgen Carling is Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). His research addresses various aspects of international migration and migrant transnationalism, including migration control policies, transnational families, remittances, and the links between migration and...
Among his most influential work is the analysis of aspiration and ability in international migration, and the associated phenomenon of ‘involuntary immobility’, the widespread situation of would-be migrants whose mobility is blocked by restrictive migration policies. He has extensive fieldwork experience and combines ethnographic data with statistical analyses in his research. He has published in most of the leading migration studies journals, including Ethnic and Racial Studies, Global Networks, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Migration, and International Migration Review, as well as in disciplinary journals in anthropology, economics, geography, and political science. He has led academic research projects with a combined budget of more than $7.5M and carried out policy-oriented work various governmental and international agencies. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (2003), the University of Oxford (2005), the National University of Singapore (2010) , and the University of Maastricht (2016). He received his doctorate in human geography from the University of Oslo, Norway in 2007 and attained the status of full professor in 2011.
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