Am I a migration researcher without a migration background? I identify strongly as a migration researcher. So I sometimes feel inadequate next to all my colleagues who can brandish intriguing migration histories from their own lives. My story seems parochial by comparison: I was born and raised in Oslo, Norway, and so were both my parents. I still call Oslo home, and I even have my entire university-level education from the University of Oslo.

Thanks to a flattering request ☺️ I am reviving a post about my own (lack of a) migration history that was originally published on the United Nations University Maastricht (UNU-MERIT) website in 2016 but later disappeared from the web.

📣 Postdoc vacancy! I am looking for a qualitative postdoc (3 years, 100%) to join my ERC project #RESTATE (Refugees’ Political Participation and State-(Re)Making in Displacement, 85%) and my project #SYREALITY (Syrian Imaginations of Europe meet Reality, 15%) starting preferably on 1 January 2026.

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Reading this inspired me to give Bluesky more attention ☺️ www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...