I am Co-Director of the  (see separate page).
My research primarily addresses these themes:
- Theories of migration and transnationalism
- Migration aspirations and intentions
- Networks and chain migration processes
- Family and gender in migration
- Immigration policy and migration pressure
- Border control and migrant fatalities
- Undocumented migration and human smuggling
- Remittances and migration-development links
I use diverse methods, often in combination:
- Semi-structured interviews
- Participant observation in multi-sited fieldwork
- Purpose-made sample surveys
- Statistical analysis of existing survey data
- Discourse and document analysis
Editorial board memberships
Personal profiles on other sites
Language skills
- Mother tongue:Â Norwegian
- Fluency: English, and Cape Verdean Kriol
- Reading proficiency: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, French
- All but forgotten: Esperanto and Japanese
Education
- PhD, Human geography (University of Oslo, 2007)
- Cand. polit., Human geography (University of Oslo, 2001)
- Cand. mag., Human geography, demography and economics (University of Oslo, 1998)
- International Baccalaureate (United World College of the Atlantic, 1993)