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The PRIO Migration Centre examines how states, groups and individuals engage with, and are affected by migration. The centre is part of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and reflects the institute’s independent, international, and interdisciplinary profile.

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Wednesday, 11 Dec 2024

Nora and Noreen (FUMI video portraits). FUMI

FUMI video-portraits: Nora and Noreen (Tema, Ghana)

Meet Nora & Noreen, and hear about the lives and dreams of young adults in West Africa. These video portraits are part of the FUMI research project, exploring thoughts and feelings about the prospect of migrating.

News

Wednesday, 11 Dec 2024

Jowhar IDP camp in Somalia. Photo: UN photo

A call for more precision in research on the climate-conflict-migration nexus

There is a need for more precision, as well as more robust data, to strengthen research on the climate-conflict-migration nexus. To address pressing policy concerns, overarching generalizations are rarely helpful.

Multimedia

Tuesday, 10 Dec 2024

Dilemmas of asylum in Europe . Aftenposten

Dilemmas of European management of the asylum system

A bonus podcast episode of 'Dypdykk' [in Norwegian] on the dilemmas of European management of the asylum system. Drawing on PRIO migration-related research across different projects.

Book chapter

2024

Migration drivers across time and space: selected examples

Book chapter in From Uncertainty to Policy: A Guide to Migration Scenarios

En uprøvd flyktningteori

Fostering togetherness in superdiverse Catholic parishes

Journal article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Journal article

2024

Education desires and conflict impacts in refugees’ decisions to leave

Journal article in Migration Studies

PRIO Paper

2024

Middle Classes, Moving and Staying in Karachi

PRIO Paper

News

Wednesday, 11 Dec 2024

Karachi (photo from MigrationRhythms fieldwork, Marta Bivand Erdal). Photo: n/a

The urban middle classes in Asia are growing: Does migration matter?

The urban middle classes in Asia are growing. What characterizes urban Asian middle-class families and their processes of becoming middle-class? And does migration matter for families’ social mobility?

PRIO Blogs

Wednesday, 11 Dec 2024

An Untested Refugee Theory

From late January 2025, the Israeli ban on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) will come into effect. What does this mean for the rights of the Palestinian refugees, and who will then take responsibility for helping them? In October 2024, the Israeli parliament (Knesset) ...

News

Tuesday, 10 Dec 2024

From uncertainty to policy: A guide to migration scenarios. n/a

Virtual book launch of 'From uncertainty to policy: A guide to migration scenarios' on International Migrants Day

Can migration be forecasted in today's unpredictable world? How can policymakers and scholars navigate inherent uncertainty, with robust and realistic models?

Book chapter

2024

A methodologically oriented interrogation of connections between migration and social mobility in South Asia

Book chapter in South Asia Migration Report 2024: Remittances, Resilience and Rehabilitation

Journal article

2024

Coups and refugee flows in autocracies and democracies

Journal article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Israel har trappet opp sin skyggekrig mot Unrwa. Hva skjer nå?

Middle Classes, Moving and Staying in Mumbai

PRIO Paper

Book chapter

2024

Implementing collaborative qualitative data collection

Book chapter in Handbook of Research Methods in Migration

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Featured projects

Project

Jul 2020 – Dec 2024

TRUST: Attitudinal Impacts of Refugees on Host Communities in the Global South

Led by Halvard Buhaug. Funder: Research Council of Norway.

Project

Dec 2018 – Jul 2025

Future Migration as Present Fact (FUMI)

Led by Jørgen Carling. Funder: European Research Council.

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