Arne Strand

Senior Researcher at CMI

Email: arne.strand@cmi.no

Arne Strand
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Publications
Blog posts

PRIO Blogs

Friday, 2 Feb 2024

Refugee Protection Is Being Eroded

The pledges of USD 2.2 billion for refugees that were secured by Global Refugee Forum in December are a mere drop in the ocean. It can seem that we have reduced refugees to pawns in a political game; a game in which they are unwelcome both in their neighbouring countries ...

Book chapter

2013

War and Migration

Book chapter in The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration

PRIO Blogs

Tuesday, 3 May 2016

Man sits in front of a table covered with bread. Photo: Arne Strand, CMI

Assisted Return Not a Permanent Solution for All Asylum Seekers

Many asylum seekers who choose assisted return are from a country destroyed by war and conflict. More than half of those who return to countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq plan to migrate again. Assisted return is a viable type of support to assist with the return, but is not ...

Report – external series

2008

Return in Dignity, Return to What? Review of Voluntary Return Programme to Afghanistan

CMI Report

PRIO Blogs

Thursday, 26 Mar 2015

In 2014 Norwegian authorities started forcible return of Afghan families. The Hashemi family was returned to Kabul in the autumn 2014. Photo: Sune E. Rasmussen

An Uncertain Future in Afghanistan

Under the tripartite agreement entered into between Afghanistan, Norway and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Afghans who are refused asylum in Norway have two choices: either to take advantage of the assisted repatriation programme; or to reject this offer and risk being forcibly deported and returned to Kabul ...

Report – external series

2004

Afghan Refugees in Iran: From Refugee Emergency to Migration Management

CMI Policy Brief