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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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PRIO Paper

2024

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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Refugee journey infrastructures: Exploring migration trajectories from South Sudan to Uganda

Journal article in Population, Space and Place

News

Wednesday, 25 Sep 2024

New project funding! Expanding the search for new ways of working along the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus

New research project to draw on empirical research about locally-led responses to environmentally- and conflict-induced protracted displacement in Uganda, Somalia and Sri Lanka, as ways of addressing complex crises, in the humanitarian-development-peace nexus.

Journal article

2024

The multi-level determinants of international migration aspirations in 25 communities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East

Journal article in World Development

Policy brief

2024

Tensions along the Colombia–Venezuela Border: Perspectives of Local Communities

PRIO Policy Brief

Journal article

2024

Why Do People Migrate? Fresh Takes on the Foundational Question of Migration Studies

Journal article in International Migration Review

News

Sunday, 18 Aug 2024

Illustration. Photo: Andrew Neel (Unsplash)

PRIO Invites Journalists to Apply for Residence Linked to Groundbreaking Research

PRIO hosts six research projects funded by prestigious grants for Europe’s most groundbreaking research. There is now an opportunity for journalists to spend 3-5 months at the institute and engage with these projects.

PRIO Paper

2024

Middle Classes, Moving and Staying in Karachi

PRIO Paper

Recorded event

Thursday, 17 Oct 2024 15:30–16:30 UTC+02

57:52

Decided Return Migration: Emotions, Citizenship, Home and Belonging in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Welcome to an online book launch of Aida Ibričević’s Decided Return Migration. The author will discuss the making of her book, her contributions to return migration scholarship and how her book adds to a better understanding of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Book chapter

2024

Mixed methods: bridging the qualitative–quantitative divide in migration research

Book chapter in How to Do Migration Research

News

Wednesday, 25 Sep 2024

A busy street in the City of Manila. Photo: Karen Liao

Call for Papers: Theorizing Migration and Social Mobility in Asia and Beyond

Focusing on the Asian context, we seek to explore the interactions between multiple forms of migrations and processes of social mobility, whether upward, downward, or sideways. The Call for Papers is open till 15 October 2024.

News

Wednesday, 25 Sep 2024

MIGNEX research findings!

What are the developmental impacts of migration? What are the main causes of migration and how do development processes impact them? And, what is ‘policy coherence’ in the field of EU migration management? Read the MIGNEX final reports to find out more!

News

Friday, 6 Sep 2024

How are life aspirations and migration intertwined?. Photo: Original photo by Etienne Boulanger

Call for papers - Life and migration: Decentering migration from the life aspirations of (potential) migrants

We invite abstracts for a panel at the IMISCOE Annual Conference, Paris, 1-4 July 2025. The panel aims to offer new insights across theoretical lenses, methodological approaches and geographical contexts. Deadline 23 September 2024.

Recorded event

Monday, 2 Sep 2024 16:30–18:30 UTC+02

A lawyer working for a refugee and migrants support NGO is being shown the living conditions of a refugee village in Islamabad, Pakistan. Photo: Arjumand Bano Kazmi

01:13:46

Refugee Rights are Human Rights! Afghan Refugees in Pakistan

What is the state of refugee rights in Pakistan? What role do civil society play to advocate for these rights? Welcome to this discussion forum with Pakistani human rights activists and academics.

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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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