Jørgen Carling
@jorgencarling
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Research Professor and Co-Director of PRIO Migration Centre, working on global migration, transnationalism, immobility, visualization, research communication
Oslo + 🇨🇻🇬🇲🇬🇭
Joined February 2011
A gigantic and admirable study on people's well-being might have stumbled in the formulation of survey questions. #globalflourishingstudy @NatMentHealth @Gallup .
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The Global Flourishing Study (GFS) has launched its first results from interviews with more than 200,000 people in 22 countries. The study aims to map and explain multiple dimensions of well-being,...
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Great to see new research being published with data from the #MIGNEX project!.
Our paper “Gender Attitudes, Inequality & Migration Decision-Making” now online. Conservative gender attitudes lower preference for migration among women. Perceived structural gender inequality increases expectations of migration for men. @SNMorgnstern
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If you’re interested in the power of grammatical nuance, here’s some background to Trump’s recent concern for “the women”.
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One of the littlest words in the English language gives the biggest clue about where Donald Trump’s head is at: his use of the word ”the.”
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I’m so happy to have contributed to this anniversary issue of @IMRjournal! Many of the articles are out, and so is the Introduction:.
📢Sharing our intro. to the special issue of @IMRjournal commemorating its 60th anniversary! Ellen P. Kraly, Holly Reed & I reflect on the journal's accomplishments & challenge #migration scholars to continue enriching the field! Issue is🔥 @ASAmigration .
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Even if you’re not interested in @Gladwell’s book (or committed to read it regardless) - do read @AnandWrites’ review!
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In “Revenge of the Tipping Point,” the best-selling author looks back at his old theories.
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It helps me avoid the Gladwell trap, though, that, rather than peddling universal laws, I am committed to ‘research that navigates a diversity of perspectives with humility and curiosity’
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… and the fruitful work of increasing the value-added of existing research by investing in the quality of writing and the assembly of fragmented pieces into bigger pictures.
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As I am writing my own book - which draws heavily on the work of others and seeks to promote big ideas - I’ll remember @AnandWrites’ characterisation of @Gladwell as ‘a maestro of appropriation through better branding.’ There’s a fine line between that scathing label….
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Here’s an incisive and though provoking book review! Beyond the specific book at hand (@Gladwell’s latest) the points that @AnandWrites raises are relevant to how pieces of data are linked to big ideas. 🧵.
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In “Revenge of the Tipping Point,” the best-selling author looks back at his old theories.
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RT @k_natter: Why has #migration #research so little #impact? .In @IMRjournal, @NWelfens and I examine dynamics of knowledge production and….
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Scientific and expert knowledge on migration is often disregarded in policy making and plays only a minor role in public debates - despite the massive growth an...
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RT @IMRjournal: “Why do people #migrate?” is a question that forms the pivot of #migration studies, and migration theory in particular. In….
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Immigration on the Southern border is a major topic in US politics but “the fragmented system that legal immigrants must navigate is rarely discussed” writes @LiYuan6. Indeed, the brutality of immigration bureaucracies is too often obscured.
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For Chinese seeking educational opportunity, the United States has long been the top spot, but as more want to stay to work, their paths are full of roadblocks.
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Call for abstracts @IMISCOE 2025 "Life and migration: Decentering migration from the life aspirations of (potential) migrants" ⚠️Deadline 16 September (Please share 🙏🏼) Organized by @n_rodriguezpena and me. @IMISCOE_PhD @reflex_studies @METHatMIG.
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We invite abstracts for a panel at the IMISCOE Annual Conference, Paris, 1-4 July 2025. The panel aims to offer new insights across theoretical lenses, ...
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RT @bivanderdal: CfP: Panel proposal for the #IMISCOE 2025 Annual Conference in Paris: 🌍.«Strengthening and Diversifying #SurveyMethods in….
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I’m proudly wearing my @HowardU jacket today, in memory of my father’s time there as one of a handful of white students in the late 1950s. When @VP Harris was there this week, she said that “Howard University helped shape everything I am today”
Howard University helped shape everything I am today. It was wonderful to be back on campus this week and say hello to the incoming students who will be leaders of our nation and world.
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New data from @arab In late 2023, Migration aspirations Migration Attitudes in the Middle East and North Africa (2023-2024) – Arab Barometer
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Oh, and facing myself in the mirror above the desk didn’t freak me out as I feared it might! 😳 What you see on the screen is the @Mural software, which was great for planning the structure of the book.
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⏩️ As for the writing, I managed to kick-start the actual writing of the book I have been preparing for the past few years. See for details and to sign up for updates.
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Led by Jørgen Carling. Funder: European Research Council.
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💟 It worked well for me to do this as a solo thing, simply feeling welcomed by the staff at the pub and the café after establishing my routine; no other expectations or accountability - just my own wish to make the most of the opportunity.
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