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Jørgen Carling
Senior Researcher, Programme Leader
Email: jorgen@prio.no
Work phone: (+47) 22 54 77 64
Mobile phone: (+47) 47 32 42 42
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Current Research

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My research focuses on the following topics:

 Migration-related transnational practices
 Remittances and migration-development links
 The demography of immigrant communities
 Immigration policy and migration pressure
 Border control and migrant fatalities
 Undocumented migration and human smuggling
 Family and gender in migration 
 Migration theory

 

My research has focused on the following migration flows: From Cape Verde to Europe and America
 From West Africa, Morocco and Western Sahara to Spain
 From China to Africa
 From Nigeria to Europe

 

I have used the following methodologies in my research:

 Semi-structured interviews
 Participant observation in multi-sited fieldwork
 Purpose-made sample surveys
 Statistical analysis of existing survey data
 Demographic projection from register data

 

See also narrative biographical note [MS Word document]

Language skills

 Proficient: English, Norwegian and Cape Verdean Kriol
 Basic skills: Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch
 All but forgotten: Esperanto and Japanese

Work experience
 2009-present: Programme Leader, the Ethics, Norms and Identities programme, PRIO.
 2007-present: Senior Researcher, PRIO.
 2002-2007: Researcher, PRIO.
 1999: Research assistant, Statistics Norway
 1998: Research assistant, Institute for Social Research
 1997: Research assistant, Statistics Norway

Academic visitorships
 2005: COMPAS, University of Oxford
 2003: Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute
 

Memberships in academic associations

 African Borderlands Research Network (ABORNE)
 International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO)
 International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion (IMISCOE)
 Norwegian Association for Development Research (NFU)
 Norwegian Demographic Society (NDF)
 Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA)

 

Education


2007. PhD (Human geography)
University of Oslo.

2001. Cand. polit. (Human geography)
University of Oslo.

1998. Cand. mag. (Human geography, demography and economics) University of Oslo.

1993. International Baccalaureate
United World College of the Atlantic, Wales.

 

Favourite links 

 The Migration Information Source
 Border Thinking on Migration, Trafficking and Commercial Sex
 Migration and remittances at the World Bank

Books and reports
Carling, Jørgen, 2009. 'Books About Writing: An Overview for Social Scientists'. Oslo: International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO).
Carling, Jørgen, 2009. 'The Anatomy of an Academic Paper: A Brief Guide'. Oslo: PRIO.
Batalha, Luís & Jørgen Carling, eds, 2008. Transnational Archipelago. Perspectives on Cape Verdean Migration and Diaspora. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press.
Carling, Jørgen, 2008. 'Policy Challenges Facing Cape Verde in the Areas of Migration and Diaspora Contributions to Development', PRIO Paper. Oslo: PRIO.
Carling, Jørgen; Marta Bivand Erdal, Cindy Horst & Hilde Wallacher, 2007. 'Legal, Rapid and Reasonably Priced? A Survey of Remittance Services in Norway', PRIO Report 3. Oslo: International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO).
Carling, Jørgen, 2007. 'European Strategies for Reducing 'Unwanted' Immigration', DIIS Brief. Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), April.
Carling, Jørgen, 2006. 'Migration, Human Smuggling and Trafficking from Nigeria to Europe'. Geneva: International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
Carling, Jørgen, 2005. 'Gender Dimensions of International Migration', Global Migration Perspectives. Global Commission on International Migration.
Carling, Jørgen, 2005. 'Fra Nigeria til Europa: Innvandring, menneskesmugling og menneskehandel' [From Nigeria to Europe: Immigration, Human Smuggling and Trafficking in Persons]. Oslo: PRIO.
Carling, Jørgen, 2005. 'Migrant Remittances and Development Cooperation', PRIO Report 1. Oslo: PRIO.
Carling, Jørgen, 2004. 'Policy Options for Increasing the Benefits of Remittances', COMPAS Working Paper. Oxford: Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford.
Carling, Jørgen, ed., 2002. Nordic demography: Trends and differentials. Oslo: Unipub forlag / Nordic Demographic Society.
Carling, Jørgen, 2001. 'Aspiration and ability in international migration: Cape Verdean experiences of mobility and immobility'. Oslo: Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo.
Articles
Carling, Jørgen & Lisa Åkesson, 2009. 'Mobility at the Heart of a Nation: Patterns and Meanings of Cape Verdean Migration', International Migration 47(3): 123–155.
Carling, Jørgen, 2008. 'The Determinants of Migrant Remittances', Oxford Review of Economic Policy 24(3): 582–599.
Carling, Jørgen, 2008. 'The Human Dynamics of Migrant Transnationalism', Ethnic and Racial Studies 31(8): 1452–1477.
Carling, Jørgen & Heidi Østbø Haugen, 2008. 'Mixed Fates of a Popular Minority: Chinese migrants in Cape Verde' in Chris Alden, Daniel Large & Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, eds, China Returns to Africa. A Rising Power and a Continent Embrace. London: Hurst & Company (319–337).
Carling, Jørgen & Luís Batalha, 2008. 'Cape Verdean Migration and Diaspora' in Luís Batalha & Jørgen Carling, eds, Transnational Archipelago. Perspectives on Cape Verdean Migration and Diaspora. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Carling, Jørgen, 2008. 'Cape Verdeans in the Netherlands' in Luís Batalha & Jørgen Carling, eds, Transnational Archipelago. Perspectives on Cape Verdean Migration and Diaspora.. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Carling, Jørgen, 2008. 'Interrogating Remittances: Core Questions for Deeper Insight and Better Policies' in Stephen Castles & Raúl Delgado Wise, eds, Migration and Development: Perspectives from the South. Geneva: International Organization for Migration (43–64).
Carling, Jørgen, 2008. 'Toward a Demography of Immigrant Communities and Their Transnational Potential', International Migration Review 42(2): 449–475.
Carling, Jørgen, 2007. ''Diaspora', 'Immigration', 'Emigration', 'Population', and 'Remittances'' in Richard A. Lobban & Paul Khalil Saucier, eds, Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cape Verde. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
Carling, Jørgen, 2007. 'Unauthorized migration from Africa to Spain', International Migration 45(4): 3–37.
Carling, Jørgen, 2007. 'Interrogar a las remesas: perguntas centrales para reflexiones más profundas y políticas más adecuadas' [Interrogating remittances: core questions for deeper insight and better policies] in Stephen Castles & Raúl Delgado Wise, eds, Migración y desarrollo: perspectivas desde el sur. México D.F.: Miguel Ángel Porrua (51–73).
Carling, Jørgen, 2007. 'Migration Control and Migrant Fatalities at the Spanish-African Borders', International Migration Review 41(2): 316–343.
Carling, Jørgen, 2007. 'The Merits and Limitations of Spain's High-Tech Border Control', Migration Information Source, 7 June.
Haugen, Heidi Østbø & Jørgen Carling, 2005. 'Sie wagen und gewinnen. Chinesische Händler in Afrika.' [They Dare and Win. Chinese Traders in Africa.], Der Überblick: Zeitschrift für ökumenische Begegnung und internationale Zusammenarbeit 41(4): 19–23, December 2005.
Carling, Jørgen, 2005. 'Trafficking in Women from Nigeria to Europe', Migration Information Source, 1 July.
Haugen, Heidi Østbø & Jørgen Carling, 2005. 'On the Edge of the Chinese Diaspora: The Surge of Baihuo Business in an African City', Ethnic and Racial Studies 28(4): 639–662.
Nome, Frida Austvoll & Jørgen Carling, 2005. 'Hvem er menneskesmuglerne?' [Who are the Human Smugglers?], Dagbladet: 46, 1 February.
Carling, Jørgen, 2004. 'Innvandrere prioriterer å sende penger til familien' [Immigrants Give Priority to Sending Money to the Family], Samfunnsspeilet 18(6): 53–63, December.
Carling, Jørgen, 2004. 'Transnazionalismo "olandese-capoverdiano". Denaro, culture e parentela' [Dutch-Cape Verdean Transnationalism. Cash, Culture and Kinship], Afriche e Orienti 6: 186–202.
Carling, Jørgen, 2004. 'Emigration, Return and Development in Cape Verde: The Impact of Closing Borders', Population, Space and Place 10(2): 113–132.
Carling, Jørgen, 2003. 'Cartographies of Cape Verdean transnationalism', Global Networks 3(4): 533–539.
Carling, Jørgen, 2002. 'Migration in the age of involuntary immobility: Theoretical reflections and Cape Verdean experiences', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 28(1): 5–42.
Other
Carling, Jørgen & María Hernández Carretero, 2008. 'Kamikaze Migrants? Understanding and Tackling High-risk Migration from Africa', presented at Narratives of Migration Management and Cooperation with Countries of Origin and Transit, Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex, 18–19 September.
Hernández Carretero, María, 2008. 'Risk-taking in Unauthorised Migration', Centre for Peace Studies, University of Tromsø. Supervisor: Jørgen Carling. Defended 26 June.
Carling, Jørgen, 2007. 'Transnationalism in the Context of Restrictive Immigration Policy', Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo. Supervisors: Nick van Hear & Stein Tønnesson. Defended 14 September.
Sandbæk, Miriam Latif, 2007. '“Everybody wants to go abroad.” An ethnographic analysis of migration motivations in Morocco', MA thesis Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. Supervisors: Hans Christian Korsholm Nielsen & Jørgen Carling. Completed 21 May.
Carling, Jørgen, 2004. 'Unauthorized Entry at Europe’s Southern Borders: Routes, Dynamics and Fatalities', presented at International Migration in Europe: New Trends, New Methods of Analysis, Rome, 25–27 November .
Carling, Jørgen, 2004. 'Policy options for increasing the benefits of remittances', Geneva, 27 September—1 October.
Carling, Jørgen & Heidi Østbø Haugen, 2004. 'How an African Outpost is Filled with Chinese Shops', presented at Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, Helsingør, Denmark, 10–14 May.
Carling, Jørgen, 2002. Review of Floya Anthias & Gabriela Lazaridis, eds, 'Gender and Migration in Southern Europe: Women on the Move' in Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 11(3): 399–400.
Carling, Jørgen, 2001. 'Aspiration and ability in international migration: Cape Verdean experiences of mobility and immobility', Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. .