PRIO Migration Research Update | May 2017
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RESEARCH EVENT
Here's how to fix the refugee crisis! Or perhaps not?
The recently published book Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier has stirred considerable debate. We organized a full-house seminar with an expert panel that represented policy, practice and research. The panel praised the book for raising important issues, but also pointed to misrepresentations and pitfalls on the road to implementation. The seminar was recorded so you can listen to the debate.
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NEW PROJECT
 Societal Transformation in Conflict Contexts
PRIO reseachers under the leadership of Research Professor Cindy Horst will soon begin work on the project Societal Transformation in Conflict Contexts (TRANSFORM).The project is funded by the Research Council of Norway and investigates how individual deeds inspire collective action or lead to new institutional practices. TRANSFORM explores what we can learn from conflict contexts about the driving forces of societal transformation, through research on conflicts in Somalia, Syria and Bosnia. Parts of the data collection will be carried out among refugees in Norway who have come from these countries.
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NEW PROJECT
 Representations of migration and return in Nigerian cultural production
Migrants navigate not only legal structures, but also socio-cultural norms and expectations. We are beginning an exploration of how migration and return are represented in Nigerian film, literature and music. This is the main component of PRIO's participation in the larger project 'Transnationalism from above and below: Migration management and how migrants manage (MIGMA)', based at the University of Oslo. The research will be carried out by Jørgen Carling in collaboration with former PRIO researcher Erlend Paasche.
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FEATURED PUBLICATION
 Migration, Transnationalism and Catholicism
What are the impacts of migration and transnationalism on global Catholicism? This new book, edited by Dominic Pasura and Marta Bivand Erdal, explores migrants’ religious transnationalism and the effects of migration-related-diversity on non-migrant Catholics and the Church itself. The chapters examine how migration and transnationalism are producing diverse spaces and encounters that are moulding the Roman Catholic Church as institution and parish, pilgrimage and network, community and people. Contributions come from across disciplines and with case-studies from 17 different countries and contexts globally. There will be book launches at the University of Glasgow (8 June) and in Oslo (26 October).
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POLICY AND PRACTICE
 Towards a Global Compact on Migration
Jørgen Carling, Research Professor at PRIO, is one of the researchers appointed by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to follow up on the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. The Migration Research Leaders Syndicate is brought together by the IOM to share their expertise and knowledge in support of the 2018 Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration . This Compact aims to ‘set out a range of principles, commitments and understandings among Member States regarding international migration in all its dimensions’.
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PUBLIC DEBATE
 Engaging with narratives on refugees, migration and diversity
PRIO Researchers engage with ways in which stories about refugees, migration and diversity are told. Recent examples include an intervention about the invisibility of diaspora communities in foreign policy and the rhetoric of debates about refugees. Knowledge on international migration is sought after, but often unfounded assumptions linger. For instance the idea that more transnational ties lead to less local integration, is a belief which PRIO research contributes to proving unfounded.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Transnational lives: economies, bureaucracies, and desires
We invite abstracts for an exploratory workshop in Oslo, 11-12 January 2018, that will examine the significance and implications of leading life in two (or more) countries. We specifically encourage empirically grounded papers that make theoretical advances in the research agenda on transnationalism, related to the themes outlined in the workshop title. The workshop is organized in conjunction with the project Transnational Lives in the Welfare State (TRANSWEL). Abstracts must be submitted by 1 June 2017. Watch the video below and read more.
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RESEARCH EVENT
Migration as a research field: unanswered questions and relevance for psychology
Many psychologists work with migrants or migration-related issues, but they are virtually absent from the interdisciplinary migration research community. There is potential for integrating the work of psychologists in this field, said Jørgen Carling in this seminar, which is part of a series co-organized by PRIO, Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo, and Psychology Students Without Borders. Following Jørgen's presentation Associate Professor Nora Sveaas talks about psychotherapy with refugees.
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STAFF NEWS
Mohamed Aden Hassan appointed PRIO Global Fellow
Hassan currently works with PRIO researchers Cindy Horst and Ebba Tellander on projects related to accountability, diaspora and transnationalism, youth and migration in Somaliland. He holds an MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies and a PhD in Sociology from the University of London. The PRIO Global Fellows programme includes selected academics worldwide who have a long-standing collaborative relationship with PRIO researchers.
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10 May 2017
 Nation building in Norwegian schools
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16 June 2017
 Borders and art
How does art help us understand what borders do to people, and how people react to them? In what ways can art cross or challenge borders? What stories can be told through art and in what ways can researchers work together with artists in research on borders and their human consequences? In this seminar we gather art practitioners and academics for a conversation about these questions, focusing on comic art and animation.Please visit the PRIO web site for additional information and registration.
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Borchgrevink, Kaja & Marta Bivand Erdal (2017) Circulation of ideas and practices of Islamic charity in the transnational social field spanning Europe and Pakistan, in Nowicka, Magdalena ; & Vojin Šerbedžija, eds, Migration and Social Remittances in a Global Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Carling, Jørgen (2017) Refugee Advocacy and the Meaning of ‘Migrants’, PRIO Policy Brief, 2. Oslo: PRIO.
Carling, Jørgen (2017) Visualizing the transnational connections of China’s most African neighbourhood, Environment and Planning a. DOI: 10.1177/0308518X17690392.
Cellini, Amanda (2017) The resettlement of Hungarian refugees in 1956, Forced Migration Review 54(1): 6-9.
Ezzati, Rojan Tordhol & Marta Bivand Erdal (2017) Do we have to agree? Accommodating unity in diversity in post-terror Norway , Ethnicities. DOI: 10.1177/1468796816684145.
Erdal, Marta Bivand & Ceri Oeppen (2017) Forced to return? Agency and the role of post-return mobility for wellbeing among returnees to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Poland, in Vathi, Zana; & Russell King, eds, Return Migration and Wellbeing: Discourses, Policy-Making and Outcomes for Migrants and Their Families. Abingdon: Routledge .
Erdal, Marta Bivand (2016) When Poland became the main country of birth among Catholics in Norway’: Exploring the interface of Polish migrants’ everyday narratives and Church responses to a rapid demographic re-constitution, in Pasura, Dominic & Marta Bivand Erdal, eds, Migration, Transnationalism and Catholicism: Global Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan .
Kolås, Åshild (2017) How critical is the event? Multicultural Norway after 22 July 2011, Social Identities: Journal For the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 23(2).
Pasura, Dominic & Marta Bivand Erdal (2016) Introduction: Migration, Transnationalism and Catholicism, in Pasura, Dominic & Marta Bivand Erdal, eds, Migration, Transnationalism and Catholicism: Global Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Pasura, Dominic ; & Marta Bivand Erdal, eds, (2016) Migration, Transnationalism and Catholicism: Global Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Tellander, Ebba (2017) Norsk-somaliere blir glemt i utenrikspolitikken [Norwegian-Somalis are forgotten in Norwegian Foreign Policy], VG Meninger, 13 March.
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Trump Reminded Me Why I Am An Academic
Posted by Idean Salehyan on Monday, 6 March 2017
“Why did you become an academic?” is a question that I’m frequently asked. For me, my path into this profession is pretty clear. I was about fourteen and a freshman in high school in the early 1990s. A few of my friends joined the school chapter of Amnesty International, and I figured I’d go along. My world was changed. I learned of people being slaughtered because their ethnicity; political activists imprisoned for their beliefs; widespread torture and sexual assault; and refugees flooding across borders in search of safety. This was the era of massacres in Bosnia and Rwanda. CNN broadcast ... [Read on ...]
No-Man’s Land
Posted by Marte Heian-Engdal on Friday, 20 January 2017
In the north-eastern corner of Jordan, thousands of Syrians are left stranded. In the north-eastern corner of Jordan, where the country borders both Iraq and Syria, a barrier resembling a mound of earth extends across the desert. Running parallel to this barrier is a second mound of earth, this time within Syrian territory. The area of desert between these two mounds is the demilitarized zone between southern Syria and northern Jordan is known as “the berm”. The area is pretty much as uninviting as it gets. There are scorpions, snakes, swarms of insects, but no shade from the blistering summer ... [Read on...]
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