Erlend Paasche

Erlend Paasche left PRIO in 2016. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.

Work phone: 22 54 77 23

Mobile phone: 474 01 216

Research Interests

Doctoral research on return migration to Iraq from Norway and the UK, supervised by Dr. Jørgen Carling as part of the wider research project 'Possibilities and Realities of Return Migration' (PREMIG), coordinated from PRIO.

Key words

Return migration, Iraqi and Kurdish forced migration, voluntary return and reintegration programmes, transnationalism, war and migration, inclusion and exclusion of migrants.

Erlend Paasche
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Publications
Blog posts

Master thesis

2009

From Context of Flight to Characteristics of Exile : Iraqi refugees and Syrian security

Master thesis

PRIO Blogs

Saturday, 15 Nov 2014

Can Iraq be Fixed?

Iraq’s new prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, faces the enormous task of uniting the country. But whatever the outcome, Iraq cannot be restored to how it was before the summer. There is broad agreement that the former Iraqi prime minister, Nour al-Maliki, was a part of the problem, and that his ...

Policy brief

2014

Iraqi Kurdistan: Partner Under Pressure

PRIO Policy Brief

Monograph

2011

From Context of Flight to Characteristics of Exile: A Field-based Study of Iraqi Refugees in A Damascene Suburb

Monograph

Journal article

2016

The role of corruption in reintegration: experiences of Iraqi Kurds upon return from Europe

Journal article in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

PRIO Blogs

Wednesday, 29 Oct 2014

Nationalism under Pressure: Islamic State, Iraq and Kurdistan

Has the Iraqi Kurds’ sense of national identity been strengthened by the emergence of the so-called Islamic State? Not necessarily. If anything, mounting socio-economic and political tensions inside northern Iraq have been tearing at Kurdish nationalism for the last decade. The so-called Islamic State (IS) continues to pose a serious ...

Popular article

2014

Kan Irak fikses?

Popular article

2008

Iraq: When Resettlement Stats Show Betrayal

An Independent Iraqi Kurdistan?

A change of prime minister will not resolve Iraq’s structural problems, and while a dysfunctional Iraqi state is reeling from onslaughts by Islamic extremists, the Iraqi Kurds in the north of the country have never been stronger. Even so, we are very unlikely to see an independent Iraqi Kurdistan in ...

Popular article

2014

Nationalism Under Pressure: Islamic State, Iraq and Kurdistan

Between Two Societies: Review of the Information, Return and Reintegration of Iraqi Nationals to Iraq (IRRINI) Programme

CMI Report

Popular article

2007

Erlend Paasche

Research Interests

From Context of Flight to Characteristics of Exile : Iraqi refugees and Syrian security

Can Iraq be Fixed?

Iraqi Kurdistan: Partner Under Pressure

From Context of Flight to Characteristics of Exile: A Field-based Study of Iraqi Refugees in A Damascene Suburb

The role of corruption in reintegration: experiences of Iraqi Kurds upon return from Europe

Nationalism under Pressure: Islamic State, Iraq and Kurdistan

Kan Irak fikses?

Iraq: When Resettlement Stats Show Betrayal

An Independent Iraqi Kurdistan?

Nationalism Under Pressure: Islamic State, Iraq and Kurdistan

Between Two Societies: Review of the Information, Return and Reintegration of Iraqi Nationals to Iraq (IRRINI) Programme

Saudi Arabia's Economic Liberalization