Pakistan

A new PRIO Paper offers in-depth documentation of the MigrationRhythms survey, shedding light on urban middle classes, social mobility and internal & international migration across four major Asian cities.

The Religious Gender Justice Activism (GenderJustice) project was successfully launched in August 2025.

PRIO has successfully secured funding for four new projects to support research addressing today’s critical societal challenges, including two focused on Norwegian security and defence.

​Following the completion of data collection in 26 research areas, across 10 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, the MIGNEX project has published one Case Study Brief for each of the research areas.

PRIO has received funding from the Research Council of Norway for the 3-year project Developmental Peace? Local Perceptions of China’s Engagement in Pakistan and Afghanistan (AsiaPeace).

​Successful MIGNEX consortium meeting in Istanbul, with inspiring discussion as the project members continue to build new knowledge on migration, development and policy.

​PRIO Research Professor Marta Bivand Erdal together with Sehr Nisar, Prithvi Raj, Neha Ramchand, Furrukh Khan and Rashid Memon, have contributed a new blog post in the MIGNEX Insight series, entitled "Hope and despair in the Indus river delta: navigating the treacherous waters of capitalism, climate change and politics".

​We welcome abstracts for papers for a virtual workshop, to be held in October/November 2021 (date/time to be confirmed with those participating) – on the theme of Migrating from Pakistan today: Interrogating the regular/irregular divide.

Muslim humanitarian actors are increasingly recognized as important contributors in humanitarian and development efforts.

The large PRIO-led project ​MIGNEX examines migration and development at the local level across Africa and Asia.

Kaja Borchgrevink and Marta Bivand Erdal gave a seminar on 'The Pakistani diaspora in Norway', at the Lahore School of Economics, Centre on International Migration, Remittances and Diaspora (CIMRAD), Monday 5 March 2018.

​Kaja Borchgrevink has defended her thesis today, 9 June 2017  'With Faith in Development: Islamic Charity as Development in Practice?' at  Department of International Environment and Development Studies Noragric, Faculty of Landscape and Society at NMBU Ås Campus.

Women Engaging in Islamic Charity as ‘Development Agents’

​​​​Considerations about return are a persistent dimension of identity work in migrant populations.