About the project
Transnationalism from above and below: Migration management and how migrants manage (MIGMA) examines Norwegian attempts to return Nigerian migrants, enacting a project of exclusion and excision in the pursuit of governance.
Objectives
MIGMA will offer a theoretically informed empirical exploration of legal instruments central to the sustainability of current migration management, and explore their effects and efficiency. The aim of the research is to contribute with knowledge relevant to Norwegian policy development, by linking Norwegian migration management to wider circuits of migration and understanding it in a broader comparative framework.
Background
How migrants manage: (Self-) Representations of migrants allows for å study of how policies designed and implemented 'from above' translates into empirical realities 'from below' as they are experienced and narrated through popular culture in Nigeria, including Nigerian films, popular music and literature and as they are experienced and narrated by returnees from Europe in Nigeria.
Researchers involved
Postdoctoral researcher (UiO), Carling (PRIO).