Posts – Jørgen Carling

Three reasons for rejecting a ‘Global Compact for Most Migration’

[Printable PDF version of this post] Throughout the spring, governments are negotiating the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The first or zero draft ... [Continue reading]

Batman in Vienna: choosing how to confront migrant smuggling

There’s a lot to gain from better management of migration. That was the idea that inspired States in 2016 to set out on a path towards a Global Compact for Migration. ... [Continue reading]

IMISCOE Conference, Erasmus University Rotterdam 2017

Questions and answers about academic publishing

In June 2017 I was invited to give a workshop on academic publishing for the IMISCOE PhD network, together with Sawitri Saharso, editor-in-chief of Comparative Migration ... [Continue reading]

Thirty-six migration nexuses, and counting

Migration intersects with a range of other policy fields and social processes. But do these relations always have to be a nexus? I have so far counted thirty-six different ... [Continue reading]

Eight reasons for doing your PhD ‘by publication’

As a doctoral candidate you may have a choice between submitting a traditional doctoral dissertation and submitting a set of papers for peer-reviewed journals plus an ... [Continue reading]

Migration as a research field: Unanswered questions and relevance for psychology

I have often been struck by the near-absence of psychologists in interdisciplinary migration research. There seem to be so many areas where psychologists could contribute to ... [Continue reading]

The End Of Migrants As We Know Them?

The UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants holds the promise of progress. But ahead of the summit, communications staff were pushing a warped view of migrant diversity. Even ... [Continue reading]

Refugees are Also Migrants. And All Migrants Matter

This post was originally published on the Border Criminologies blog, based at the University of Oxford. (Photo: Carlos Spottorno, British Red Cross, CC BY-NC-ND) The recent ... [Continue reading]

Why ‘trafficking’ is in the news for the wrong reasons

In early 2015 there was a spike in new stories about ‘trafficking’ related to migration. But most of the stories described events that had little to do with ... [Continue reading]

Who is who in migration studies: 107 names worth knowing

During a recent conversation among migration scholars, a PhD candidate mentioned in passing that ‘I’m not really familiar with the names yet’. It was ... [Continue reading]

What would have been new about bombing migrant boats?

The European Union has made it clear that bombs were not part of the plan for war against people smuggling after all. “No one is thinking of bombing,” said ... [Continue reading]

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How migration spurs battles over women

Migration affects the lives of women in many ways. One subtle but critical mechanism lies in disputes over ‘who’ migrant women are. Migration researchers can play ... [Continue reading]

Snippets of my research

Below are snippets of insights from my research, issues that I am fascinated by and care about, and would like to contribute to with new knowledge. In a summary like this, ... [Continue reading]

Migration researchers on Twitter

Here’s my list of migration researchers on Twitter – that is, people who do research on migration and share their ideas about it in English on Twitter. Many of ... [Continue reading]

Pathways out of waithood: engaging with a repertoire of strategies

I am convening a panel at ECAS 2015, the 6th European Conference on African Studies (Paris, 8-10 July 2015) that seeks to bring new perspectives on young Africans’ ... [Continue reading]

Guangzhou photo walk

Guangzhou is an amazing city for photography! I’m a member of the photography group of the local InterNations community, and we do regular walks. The one we did on 11 ... [Continue reading]

Filipino migration is extraordinary

The population of the Philippines is surpassing 100 million in late July 2014. That’s a reminder of the country’s importance in global migration. Emigration ... [Continue reading]

What happened off Lampedusa?

After the shipwreck off Lampedusa on 3 October 2013 I commented in the media in Norway: An op. ed. on NRK Ytring entitled A long-term challenge explains, among other things, ... [Continue reading]

Do academics have a duty to tweet?

Here’s a translated and slightly edited version of my op. ed. in the Norwegian daily Aftenposten, 30 August 2013. Knut Olav Åmås, science editor at Aftenposten, ... [Continue reading]

Youth migration in Africa: moving away from youth

The International Youth Day is celebrated on 12 August, each year with a specific theme. The theme for 2013 is Youth Migration: Moving Development Forward. The UN wishes to ... [Continue reading]

Kurdish conversation on ethnic conflict

This interview appeared in the Kurdish Weekly Gulan Magazine, published in Erbil, Iraq, on 21 January 2013. I know nothing about what was changed in the course of ... [Continue reading]

Use your author’s rights to make articles freely available

(This post was originally published on the LSE’s blog Impact of Social Sciences, 19 Nov 2012.) Most academic journals allow authors to post their articles online after ... [Continue reading]

Academic Writing Month, November 2012

There’s a lively twitter and blog community around academic writing (#AcWri on twitter and blogs such as PhD2Published, The Thesis Whisperer, The research Whisperer, ... [Continue reading]

Using interview quotes (Part I)

Much ethnographic research makes use of interviews. How should quotes from those interviews be used in publications? The analysis and arguments should, of course, be based on ... [Continue reading]

Carnival in Bissau

We (Jørgen and Heidi, pregnant with Jenny) spent a few days in Bissau during the carnival of 2008. The theme of the year was ‘fight against drugs and illegal ... [Continue reading]

Mixing methods gives better insights

Mixing qualitative and quantitaive methods is increasingly a norm in large research projects. For me, one publication in particular stands out in terms of illustrating that ... [Continue reading]