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Wednesday, 26 Feb 2025

MigrationRhythms project animation. Illustration: PositiveNegatives (Renren Galeno)

Moving and Staying: the Path to Middle Class Life in Asia

A Filipino nurse with family in Manila, three intertwined lives in Mumbai, a ‘self-made’ man in Karachi and the journey of a woman in Hanoi. Through four animations, the MigrationRhythms project explores how migration shapes social mobility across generations.

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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?

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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Thursday, 20 Jun 2024

'Peace in a pod' episode on recent migration trends

Listen to PRIO's peace in a pod episode on recent migration trends with CNN’s Nima Elbagir and PRIO Senior Researcher Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert!

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Wednesday, 19 Jun 2024

Decided return migration. Springer IMISCOE Research Series

New IMISCOE Research Series book on Return Migration

When people return to their country of origin do they return because they have to or because they genuinely want to return?

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Wednesday, 19 Jun 2024

Podcast on border tech (Bruno Martins). Illustration: socio techs

Podcast on border technologies

How do security technologies shape border management? Who develops these technologies, and who makes decisions about when and where to deploy them?

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Wednesday, 22 May 2024

MIGNEX Insight: What`s next for EU policy on migration and development

In April, MIGNEX convened a major Policy Conference on future EU migration and development policy, in partnership with ODI. See below for a brief summary of our discussions on longstanding and emerging EU policy agendas.

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Thursday, 11 Apr 2024

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How do violence and conflict affect migration considerations?

This article contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the relationship between conflict and mobility, by disaggregating ‘conflict’ and drawing on sub-national geographical units.

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Monday, 8 Apr 2024

EU flag with barbed wire. Photo: Getty Images

New Research Finds Information Campaigns to Deter Migration Have Little Effect

Research carried out by PRIO has found that public information campaigns warning against migration rarely affect desires to leave. And when they do, they surprisingly tend to increase the wish to migrate.

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Monday, 18 Mar 2024

Suitcase used during displacement (Jaffna). Photo: AidAccount research team

Who Provides Aid in Protracted Internal Displacement over Decades?

In a new article in the journal Disasters we explore who provides aid, drawing on the case of the protracted internal displacement of Sri Lanka’s Northern Muslims. Based on this we offer insights of relevance to 'localisation' efforts in humanitarian practice.

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Tuesday, 9 Jan 2024

Image of flood-affected persons generated by Stable Diffusion. Illustration: Creative ML OpenRAIL-M license

New PNAS Study Shows Conflict Aggravates Disaster Displacement

Study finds that illiberal political rule and armed conflict are linked to higher human displacement in major floods.

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Friday, 17 Nov 2023

Refugees and other migrants arriving in Norway - a 'humanitarian crisis'?

How did the arrival of growing numbers of refugees and other migrants in a non-violent setting and high-income country like Norway become framed as a ‘humanitarian crisis’? Is there a humanitarian crisis if nobody dies?

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Thursday, 2 Nov 2023

Conflict-related determinants of migration (QuantMig project background paper D.2.7).

What are 'conflict-related determinants of migration'?

How can we understand the observable variation in ways in which conflict 'leads to displacement'? How can the fact that while some people leave, many people also stay in conflict-affected areas be better explained?

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Thursday, 2 Nov 2023

New book! 'Creative resistance. The social justice practices of Monirah, Halleh and Diala'

How can hope flourish from the devastation of war, oppression, and forced migration? In this new book Research Professor Cindy Horst engages with this question through the prism of lived reality, with her interlocutors, three extraordinary individuals.

Moving and Staying: the Path to Middle Class Life in Asia

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

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

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

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

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

MIGNEX research findings!

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

PRIO Invites Journalists to Apply for Residence Linked to Groundbreaking Research

'Peace in a pod' episode on recent migration trends

New IMISCOE Research Series book on Return Migration

Podcast on border technologies

MIGNEX Insight: What`s next for EU policy on migration and development

How do violence and conflict affect migration considerations?

New Research Finds Information Campaigns to Deter Migration Have Little Effect

Who Provides Aid in Protracted Internal Displacement over Decades?

New PNAS Study Shows Conflict Aggravates Disaster Displacement

Refugees and other migrants arriving in Norway - a 'humanitarian crisis'?

What are 'conflict-related determinants of migration'?

New book! 'Creative resistance. The social justice practices of Monirah, Halleh and Diala'