Arve Hansen

Arve Hansen is a Contributor on a PRIO project or a publication with a PRIO person, and is otherwise not associated with PRIO.

Email: arve.hansen@sum.uio.no

Arve Hansen
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PRIO Paper

2024

Middle Classes, Moving and Staying in Hanoi

PRIO Paper

Recorded event

Friday, 10 Nov 2023 08:30–10:00 UTC+01

Hanoi, Vietnam. July, 2023. Photo: Karen Liao

01:30:20

Rethinking Development Through Global Urban Middle Classes

In this seminar we draw on examples from cities in Africa and Asia to discuss how these emerging realities challenge current notions of ‘development’.

News

Tuesday, 13 Dec 2022

Presenting: Professor Jonathan Rigg. Photo: PRIO / Angelica Estevez

Recording available! 'It depends: Unpicking the Development Impacts of Migration in Asia'

In this talk given at PRIO on 11 November 2022, Jonathan Rigg draws on work across rural areas of Southeast Asia (Thailand, Laos and Vietnam) and South Asia (Sri Lanka and Nepal), and sheds light on the mixed developmental origins, effects and impacts of migration on people, communities and environments.

PRIO Blogs

Thursday, 7 Mar 2024

Facing Imbalances in Global Knowledge Co-creation

Global South-North asymmetries, or imbalances, in resources and access to mobility are often pervasive in international research, including research on peace, conflict, migration and development. Research projects can be experienced as extractive in many contexts around the world. This means that the research process feels like it is taking something ...

Current projects

Project

May 2021 – Apr 2026

Migration Rhythms in Trajectories of Upward Social Mobility in Asia

Led by Marta Bivand Erdal. Funder: European Research Council.