Jørgen Carling (born 11 November 1974, in

Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...

) is a Norwegian researcher specializing on international migration. He holds a PhD in

Human Geography Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography which studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment, examples of which include urban sprawl and urban ...

from the

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and is Research Professor of Migration and Transnationalism Studies. Carling has worked at the

Peace Research Institute Oslo The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO; ) is a private research institution in peace and conflict studies, based in Oslo, Norway, with around 100 employees. It was founded in 1959 by a group of Norwegian researchers led by Johan Galtung, who was ...

(PRIO) since 2002, where he has been Research Director since 2012.

Biography

Jørgen Carling grew up in Oslo where he attended Oslo Waldorf School (1981–1990) and

Oslo Cathedral School Schola Osloensis, known in Norwegian language, Norwegian as Oslo Katedralskole (''Oslo Cathedral School'') and more commonly as "Katta",

(1990–1991). He obtained the

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from the United World College of the Atlantic (1991–1993) and pursued undergraduate studies in Japanese, Human Geography, Demography and Economics at the University of Oslo (1994–1999) before obtaining a master's degree (2001) and PhD (2007) in Human Geography at the same university. His doctoral research was carried out at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), under the supervision of Nicholas Van Hear (University of Oxford) and Stein Tønnesson (PRIO). Carling has been a visiting scholar at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (2003), the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

(2005) and the Asia Research Institute at the

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. Jørgen Carling is the son of Finn Carling and Anne Carling and the grandson of Petter Mørch Koren. He is married to Heidi Østbø Haugen and lives in Oslo.

Research

Carling's research covers migration aspirations, migration processes and migrants’ transnational connections with their countries of origin. He has done extensive research on migrant

remittances A remittance is a non-commercial transfer of money by a foreign worker, a member of a diaspora community, or a citizen with familial ties abroad, for household income in their home country or homeland. Money sent home by migrants competes ...

, both academic and policy oriented. Carling is known for coining the term “involuntary immobility” to describe the situation of people who wish to migrate to another country but are prevented from doing so by restrictive immigration policies. He has done fieldwork on migration and transnationalism in

Cape Verde Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...

and among Cape Verdeans in the

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and

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. Carling's work on Cape Verde has sought to use a society infused with migration experiences to learn about more general migration processes. The

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described it in the following terms: “If Cape Verde is the Galapagos of migration, Jorgen Carling, a Norwegian geographer, is its Darwin.” His study on

Chinese migration Internal migration in the People's Republic of China is one of the most extensive in the world according to the International Labour Organization. This is because migrants in China are commonly members of a floating population, which refers pr ...

to Cape Verde, conducted together with his wife Heidi Østbø Haugen, was an early and widely cited contribution to the study of China's renewed presence across Africa.Heidi Østbø Haugen & Jørgen Carling
"On the edge of the Chinese diaspora: The surge of baihuo business in an African city"
''Ethnic and Racial Studies'', Volume 28, Issue 4, 2005.

Select Bibliography

* Batalha, Luís & Jørgen Carling, eds, 2008. Transnational Archipelago. Perspectives on Cape Verdean Migration and Diaspora. Amsterdam. * Carling, Jørgen, 2008
'The Determinants of Migrant Remittances'
''Oxford Review of Economic Policy'' 24(3): 582–599. * Carling, Jørgen, 2008
'The Human Dynamics of Migrant Transnationalism'
''Ethnic and Racial Studies'' 31(8): 1452–1477. * Carling, Jørgen, 2007
'Migration Control and Migrant Fatalities at the Spanish-African Borders'
''International Migration Review'' 41(2): 316–343. * Haugen, Heidi Østbø & Jørgen Carling, 2005
'On the Edge of the Chinese Diaspora: The Surge of Baihuo Business in an African City'
''Ethnic and Racial Studies'' 28(4): 639–662. * Carling, Jørgen, 2002
'Migration in the age of involuntary immobility: Theoretical reflections and Cape Verdean experiences'
''Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies'' 28(1): 5–42.

References

External links

Staff page at PRIO

Google Scholar publications list

ResearcherID publications list

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