Jan-Paul Brekke
Biographic Data
| ID | 277617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan-Paul Brekke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan-Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Brekke |
| SIGNATURE | BREKKE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Social Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6218-7331 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 167 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Family Matters: The Impact of National Policies on Asylum Destinations
In political and academic debates, a knowledge gap exists regarding the impact of different strands of national policies on the number of asylum arrivals. This article analyzes the effects of policy reforms on the distribution of asylum seekers among a group of major European receiving countries. More specifically, we study significant changes in the legislation that regulate the following three areas: (i) access to the asylum procedure, (ii) the…
The power switch in bilateral return migration management: The case of Norway and Ethiopia
Why is it so exceedingly difficult for host states to return irregular migrants to their countries of origin? Emphasizing the importance of including the viewpoints of both origin and destination countries, this article argues that there is a ‘power switch’ in the politicized practice of returning migrants from North to South: whereas immigration spells power and control on the destination side, in return processes, the command is reversed, with …
It's not about the information, it's about the situation: Understanding the misalignment between EU deterrence messaging and migrants' narratives
This article analyses the narratives of young people in the Gambia and of Afghan migrants in Turkey on the themes of migration and Europe as a place of destination. Based on extensive focus group and interview data, we show that these narratives (1) have a high degree of similarities across different contexts and (2) appear incongruent with, and largely unaffected by, the EU's messages of deterrence in information campaigns. We explain this misal…
Holding Back: The Impact of Motivation to Control Prejudice on Stereotypes About Immigrants
A central insight from the research building on the Stereotype Content Model (SMC) is that different groups elicit different emotional and threat reactions. To advance our knowledge about which groups are likely to share experiences of discrimination and prejudice, we must explore the content of the stereotypes connected to different immigrant groups. Building on population representative survey data, the study applies a split-sample experimental…
Polarisering av holdninger til innvandring i Norge på 2000-tallet: Teoretiske perspektiver og empiriske trender
Informing Hard-to-Reach Immigrant Groups about Covid-19—Reaching the Somali Population in Oslo
Losing the Right to Stay: Revocation of Refugee Permits in Norway
Following the record number of asylum seekers to Europe in 2015, Norway intensified its practice of revoking migrants’ residence permits and citizenships, which primarily affected refugees and their families, and reflects a broader international trend of increased use of temporary protection. This article explores the effects of revocation on individuals, their families and wider communities by analysing how revocation is experienced and its cons…
Family Migration and Integration: The Need for a New Research Agenda
This article investigates the link between family migration and integration. It is based on a literature review of existing research across the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, focusing on examples from Denmark and Norway. Much of the existing literature on family migration and integration analyses legal changes and policy arguments. Focusing on literature about integration and regulation outcomes, we identi…
Communicating borders—Governments deterring asylum seekers through social media campaigns
This article analyses a novel attempt by the Norwegian Government to use Facebook to influence migrants’ destination choices. With the refugee crisis in the fall of 2015 as a backdrop, the Norwegian case reveals the dilemmas that occur when governments use social media as instruments to control immigration. While social media provide governments with new tools, such as paid targeting and access to new groups of migrants, their use also raises eth…
The renationalisation of migration policies in times of crisis: The case of Norway
Securing collective action in the field of asylum regulation is high on the European political agenda. In this article, we look at one country’s partial pullback from the regional cooperation during the high influx of asylum seekers in 2015. We use Norway as a case to analyse the challenges to common European asylum regulations and the drivers of a region-wide tendency of what we call renationalisation. Against this background, we seek to contrib…
Reduction or deflection? The effect of asylum policy on interconnected asylum flows
Reduction or deflection? The effect of asylum policy on interconnected asylum flows
In 2015 Europe experienced an almost unprecedented number of asylum arrivals. The result was a revitalization of both the political and academic debates on the relationship between asylum policies and arrivals. In this article we study the core of this debate, namely the effects of asylum policy on asylum flows. We examine what recent European history of asylum regimes and arrivals tells us. The policy changes are examined both with regard to the…
Stuck in Transit: Secondary Migration of Asylum Seekers in Europe, National Differences, and the Dublin Regulation
The European Union’s ambition to create a harmonized reception system for asylum seekers differs from the realities on the ground. We address how differences in national reception conditions stimulate the secondary migration that challenges the creation of an effective common migration regulation in Europe. We base our analysis on the Dublin Regulation (DR) and the secondary movement of Eritrean asylum seekers from Italy to Norway. The empirical …
Samtalekulturen i diplomatiet
The Dilemmas of Temporary Protection ‐ the Norwegian Experience
Temporary protection for refugees was a recurring topic on the European agenda during the 1990s. The instrument was first implemented in most Western European states following the mass outflow from Bosnia Herzegovina during 1992-93. In this article the experiences drawn from the use of temporary protection for Bosnian refugees in Norway are discussed. What were the main challenges that the government faced in the implementation of temporary prote…
Stuck in Transit: Secondary Migration of Asylum Seekers in Europe, National Differences, and the Dublin Regulation
The European Union’s ambition to create a harmonized reception system for asylum seekers differs from the realities on the ground. We address how differences in national reception conditions stimulate the secondary migration that challenges the creation of an effective common migration regulation in Europe. We base our analysis on the Dublin Regulation (DR) and the secondary movement of Eritrean asylum seekers from Italy to Norway. The empirical …
The renationalisation of migration policies in times of crisis: The case of Norway
Securing collective action in the field of asylum regulation is high on the European political agenda. In this article, we look at one country’s partial pullback from the regional cooperation during the high influx of asylum seekers in 2015. We use Norway as a case to analyse the challenges to common European asylum regulations and the drivers of a region-wide tendency of what we call renationalisation. Against this background, we seek to contrib…
Losing the Right to Stay: Revocation of Refugee Permits in Norway
Following the record number of asylum seekers to Europe in 2015, Norway intensified its practice of revoking migrants’ residence permits and citizenships, which primarily affected refugees and their families, and reflects a broader international trend of increased use of temporary protection. This article explores the effects of revocation on individuals, their families and wider communities by analysing how revocation is experienced and its cons…
Reduction or deflection? The effect of asylum policy on interconnected asylum flows
In 2015 Europe experienced an almost unprecedented number of asylum arrivals. The result was a revitalization of both the political and academic debates on the relationship between asylum policies and arrivals. In this article we study the core of this debate, namely the effects of asylum policy on asylum flows. We examine what recent European history of asylum regimes and arrivals tells us. The policy changes are examined both with regard to the…
It's not about the information, it's about the situation: Understanding the misalignment between EU deterrence messaging and migrants' narratives
This article analyses the narratives of young people in the Gambia and of Afghan migrants in Turkey on the themes of migration and Europe as a place of destination. Based on extensive focus group and interview data, we show that these narratives (1) have a high degree of similarities across different contexts and (2) appear incongruent with, and largely unaffected by, the EU's messages of deterrence in information campaigns. We explain this misal…
Communicating borders—Governments deterring asylum seekers through social media campaigns
This article analyses a novel attempt by the Norwegian Government to use Facebook to influence migrants’ destination choices. With the refugee crisis in the fall of 2015 as a backdrop, the Norwegian case reveals the dilemmas that occur when governments use social media as instruments to control immigration. While social media provide governments with new tools, such as paid targeting and access to new groups of migrants, their use also raises eth…
Family Migration and Integration: The Need for a New Research Agenda
This article investigates the link between family migration and integration. It is based on a literature review of existing research across the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, focusing on examples from Denmark and Norway. Much of the existing literature on family migration and integration analyses legal changes and policy arguments. Focusing on literature about integration and regulation outcomes, we identi…
Informing Hard-to-Reach Immigrant Groups about Covid-19—Reaching the Somali Population in Oslo
The Dilemmas of Temporary Protection ‐ the Norwegian Experience
Temporary protection for refugees was a recurring topic on the European agenda during the 1990s. The instrument was first implemented in most Western European states following the mass outflow from Bosnia Herzegovina during 1992-93. In this article the experiences drawn from the use of temporary protection for Bosnian refugees in Norway are discussed. What were the main challenges that the government faced in the implementation of temporary prote…
Holding Back: The Impact of Motivation to Control Prejudice on Stereotypes About Immigrants
A central insight from the research building on the Stereotype Content Model (SMC) is that different groups elicit different emotional and threat reactions. To advance our knowledge about which groups are likely to share experiences of discrimination and prejudice, we must explore the content of the stereotypes connected to different immigrant groups. Building on population representative survey data, the study applies a split-sample experimental…
Polarisering av holdninger til innvandring i Norge på 2000-tallet: Teoretiske perspektiver og empiriske trender
Samtalekulturen i diplomatiet
The Dilemmas of Temporary Protection ‐ the Norwegian Experience
Temporary protection for refugees was a recurring topic on the European agenda during the 1990s. The instrument was first implemented in most Western European states following the mass outflow from Bosnia Herzegovina during 1992-93. In this article the experiences drawn from the use of temporary protection for Bosnian refugees in Norway are discussed. What were the main challenges that the government faced in the implementation of temporary prote…
Samtalekulturen i diplomatiet
Stuck in Transit: Secondary Migration of Asylum Seekers in Europe, National Differences, and the Dublin Regulation
The European Union’s ambition to create a harmonized reception system for asylum seekers differs from the realities on the ground. We address how differences in national reception conditions stimulate the secondary migration that challenges the creation of an effective common migration regulation in Europe. We base our analysis on the Dublin Regulation (DR) and the secondary movement of Eritrean asylum seekers from Italy to Norway. The empirical …
Reduction or deflection? The effect of asylum policy on interconnected asylum flows
In 2015 Europe experienced an almost unprecedented number of asylum arrivals. The result was a revitalization of both the political and academic debates on the relationship between asylum policies and arrivals. In this article we study the core of this debate, namely the effects of asylum policy on asylum flows. We examine what recent European history of asylum regimes and arrivals tells us. The policy changes are examined both with regard to the…
Reduction or deflection? The effect of asylum policy on interconnected asylum flows
Communicating borders—Governments deterring asylum seekers through social media campaigns
This article analyses a novel attempt by the Norwegian Government to use Facebook to influence migrants’ destination choices. With the refugee crisis in the fall of 2015 as a backdrop, the Norwegian case reveals the dilemmas that occur when governments use social media as instruments to control immigration. While social media provide governments with new tools, such as paid targeting and access to new groups of migrants, their use also raises eth…
The renationalisation of migration policies in times of crisis: The case of Norway
Securing collective action in the field of asylum regulation is high on the European political agenda. In this article, we look at one country’s partial pullback from the regional cooperation during the high influx of asylum seekers in 2015. We use Norway as a case to analyse the challenges to common European asylum regulations and the drivers of a region-wide tendency of what we call renationalisation. Against this background, we seek to contrib…
Family Migration and Integration: The Need for a New Research Agenda
This article investigates the link between family migration and integration. It is based on a literature review of existing research across the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, focusing on examples from Denmark and Norway. Much of the existing literature on family migration and integration analyses legal changes and policy arguments. Focusing on literature about integration and regulation outcomes, we identi…
Losing the Right to Stay: Revocation of Refugee Permits in Norway
Following the record number of asylum seekers to Europe in 2015, Norway intensified its practice of revoking migrants’ residence permits and citizenships, which primarily affected refugees and their families, and reflects a broader international trend of increased use of temporary protection. This article explores the effects of revocation on individuals, their families and wider communities by analysing how revocation is experienced and its cons…
Informing Hard-to-Reach Immigrant Groups about Covid-19—Reaching the Somali Population in Oslo
Polarisering av holdninger til innvandring i Norge på 2000-tallet: Teoretiske perspektiver og empiriske trender
It's not about the information, it's about the situation: Understanding the misalignment between EU deterrence messaging and migrants' narratives
This article analyses the narratives of young people in the Gambia and of Afghan migrants in Turkey on the themes of migration and Europe as a place of destination. Based on extensive focus group and interview data, we show that these narratives (1) have a high degree of similarities across different contexts and (2) appear incongruent with, and largely unaffected by, the EU's messages of deterrence in information campaigns. We explain this misal…
Holding Back: The Impact of Motivation to Control Prejudice on Stereotypes About Immigrants
A central insight from the research building on the Stereotype Content Model (SMC) is that different groups elicit different emotional and threat reactions. To advance our knowledge about which groups are likely to share experiences of discrimination and prejudice, we must explore the content of the stereotypes connected to different immigrant groups. Building on population representative survey data, the study applies a split-sample experimental…
Family Matters: The Impact of National Policies on Asylum Destinations
In political and academic debates, a knowledge gap exists regarding the impact of different strands of national policies on the number of asylum arrivals. This article analyzes the effects of policy reforms on the distribution of asylum seekers among a group of major European receiving countries. More specifically, we study significant changes in the legislation that regulate the following three areas: (i) access to the asylum procedure, (ii) the…
The power switch in bilateral return migration management: The case of Norway and Ethiopia
Why is it so exceedingly difficult for host states to return irregular migrants to their countries of origin? Emphasizing the importance of including the viewpoints of both origin and destination countries, this article argues that there is a ‘power switch’ in the politicized practice of returning migrants from North to South: whereas immigration spells power and control on the destination side, in return processes, the command is reversed, with …
Political science (15 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (12 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Immigration (7 works) · Refugee (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works)