Erlend Paasche

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

Email: erlpaa@prio.org

Work phone: 22 54 77 23

Mobile phone: 474 01 216

Twitter: @ErlendPaasche

Research Interests

Doctoral research on return migration to Iraq from Norway and the UK, supervised by Dr. Jørgen Carling as part of the wider research project 'Possibilities and Realities of Return Migration' (PREMIG), coordinated from PRIO.

Key words

Return migration, Iraqi and Kurdish forced migration, voluntary return and reintegration programmes, transnationalism, war and migration, inclusion and exclusion of migrants.

Erlend Paasche
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Publications
Blog posts

Master thesis

2009

From Context of Flight to Characteristics of Exile : Iraqi refugees and Syrian security

Master thesis

PRIO Blogs

Friday, 30 Jan 2015

It may seem as if return programmes are all about logistics, but a comprehensive evaluation should raise a wide range of analytical questions. Illustration: radarqnet, and Lauren Manning, used under CC BY 2.0.

Why Assisted Return Programmes Must Be Evaluated

Rejected asylum seekers often resist the legal obligation to return. Consequently, European policy makers tasked with migration managament have turned to so-called ‘Assisted Voluntary Return and Reintegration programmes’ (AVRRs) to incentivize return to and support reintegration in the country of origin. Such programmes are described as less politically costly, more ...

Policy brief

2014

Iraqi Kurdistan: Partner Under Pressure

PRIO Policy Brief

Nasjonalisme under press

The role of corruption in reintegration: experiences of Iraqi Kurds upon return from Europe

Journal article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Policy brief

2014

Why Assisted Return Programmes Must Be Evaluated

PRIO Policy Brief

Kan Irak fikses?

War and Migration

Book chapter in The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration

PRIO Blogs

Thursday, 11 Jun 2015

An anti-corruption billboard near the Rwanda-Uganda border crossing. Photo: Fred Inklaar via Flickr

Finding Connections: The Nexus between Migration and Corruption

International migration and corruption have several things in common: they play key roles in development processes, feature prominently on policy agendas, and are the subject of large research literatures. However, the connections between migration and corruption, whether in the country of origin or along migration trajectories, remain relatively unexplored. The ...

Conference paper

2014

Elites and emulators: the evolution of an Iraqi Kurdish - European migration system

Conference paper

Vaklende løsrivelse

Transnational Involvement: Reading Quantitative Studies in Light of Qualitative Data

Journal article in International Journal of Population Research

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