![Copyright: flickr/Acyn (Reproduced under a Creative Commons license)]( Illustrations/pakistani_migration_banner_flickr-acyn.jpg "Copyright: flickr/Acyn (Reproduced under a Creative Commons license)")

An international workshop, Oslo, Norway, 14-15 January 2010

Pakistani migration has been a substantial part of the migration flows to several European countries in the past few decades. The International Peace Research Institute (ÌÇÐÄÍøÒ³°æ) gathered a few scholars who have worked specifically on issues relating to migration from Pakistan at the workshop entitled "Pakistani Migration and Transnationalism".

The workshop was related to a research project at ÌÇÐÄÍøÒ³°æ entitled 'Remittances from Immigrants in Norway' (RIN), led by Senior Researcher Jørgen Carling and funded by the Research Council of Norway (RCN). A large component of this project is a case study of remittance sending and transnationalism between Norway and Pakistan, conducted primarily by Researcher Marta Bivand Erdal. More generally, the migration team at ÌÇÐÄÍøÒ³°æ conducts research on migration dynamics and transnationalism, with an emphasis on migration from Asia and Africa to Europe (see )

![]( Illustrations/PMT_Workshop.jpg)

Participants, from top left: Marta Bolognani, Zbigniew Igielski, Mikkel Rytter, Sasha Roseneil, Jørgen Carling, Hafeez ur-Rehman, Alice Ennals, Tamera Stover, Marta Bivand Erdal, Alison Shaw, Katharine Charsley, Rojan Ezzati

Papers presented at the workshop are listed below. (The organizers are not in a position to distribute the papers, many of which were draft versions.)

  • Alison Shaw (co-authored with Jane A.Hurst): ‘‘I don’t see any point in telling them’: attitudes to sharing genetic information in the family and carrier testing of relatives among British Pakistani adults referred to a genetics clinic’
  • Katharine Charsley (co-authored with Kaveri Harriss and Alison Shaw): ‘Diasporic Pakistani marriages: transnationality, instability and divorce’
  • Marta Bolognani: ‘The three dimensions of the British Pakistani migration economy’
  • Zbigniew Dariusz Igielski: ‘Pakistani Migration to Poland’
  • Tamera Lee Stover: ‘Hijacked Identities: Silicon Valley Pakistanis and Tactics of Belonging’
  • Marta Bivand Erdal: ‘A place to stay’: migrants’ houses in the country of origin’
  • Sasha Roseneil: ‘Living Intimate Citizenship Transnationally: A Psychosocial Perspective on Migration, Movement and Emotional Life in the Pakistani Diaspora’
  • Mikkel Rytter: ‘Events and Effects: Intensive Transnationalism among Pakistani Migrants in Denmark’

For any further queries about the RIN-project, please contact Research Coordinator on Migration and transnationalism, Rojan Ezzati (rojezz@prio.no).