Tove Heggli Sagmo

Doctoral Researcher

Tove Heggli Sagmo left PRIO in 2016. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.

Research Interests

Tove is currently working on the research project “Possibilities and Realities of return migration: Perspectives on integration, exclusion and withdrawal (PREMIG)”. Her geographical focus is Burundi and she will be exploring the actual pattern of return to Burundi and how the reintegration process is experienced among the returnees and the communities to which they return. Fieldwork will be conducted in Norway, UK and Burundi.

Background

Work Experience:

2009-2010 UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES
Title: Associate Livelihoods Officer
Location: Geneva, Switzerland

2007- 2009 UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES
Title: Associate Community Services Officer,
Location: Arua, Uganda

2005-2007 NORWEGIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Press, Cultural, Relations and Information Department
Title: Consultant
Location: Oslo, Norway

Education:
2004 Master in Human Geography from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

2002 Development Studies, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand

2002 Bachelor from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

1999 Development studies, Agder University College

Languages: Norwegian (mother tongue), English, French(basic) German (Basic)

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PRIO Departments

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PRIO Projects

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Events

Thu, 20 August 2015 – Thinking About Going 'Home'
Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:15-10:00 – Humanitarianism and Return: Compromising protection?
Fri, 05 Dec 2014 08:30-10:00 – Broadening Approaches to Radicalization: Youth, Identity and Belonging
Mon, 21 May 2012 12:00-13:00 – FIWON seminar: Doing interviews in Norway and the UK
Tue, 08 May 2012 11:30-15:30 – Snapshots of Research on International Migration and Mobility
Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:45-12:30 – 'A Dream, a Threat, a Duty' - A conference on return migration

PRIO started tracking events online in 2007. This listing is not complete. Past events may be mentioned in our news archive.

All Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Article

Erdal, Marta Bivand & Tove Heggli Sagmo (2017) Descent, birthplace and residence: Aligning principles of citizenship with realities of migrant transnationalism, Norwegian Journal of Geography. DOI: 10.1080/00291951.2017.1369456.

Rolandsen, Øystein H.; Tove Heggli Sagmo & Fanny Nicolaisen (2015) South Sudan – Uganda Relations: The Cost of Peace, Conflict Trends 2015(4): 33–40.

Sagmo, Tove Heggli (2014) Return Visits as a Marker of Differentiation in the Social Field, Mobilities 10(4): 649–665.

PhD Thesis

Sagmo, Tove Heggli (2016) Return Migration and Social Change: Creating Distinctions in the Social Field. PhD thesis, Department of Sociology and Human Geography , University of Oslo, Oslo.

Book Chapter

Sagmo, Tove Heggli (2015) The role of social capital in post-conflict business development: perspectives from returning migrants in Burundi, in Africa's Return Migrants: the New Developers?. London: Zed Books (109–129).

PRIO Report

Carling, Jørgen; Marta Bolognani; Marta Bivand Erdal; Rojan Tordhol Ezzati; Ceri Oeppen; Erlend Paasche; Silje Vatne Pettersen; & Tove Heggli Sagmo (2015) Possibilities and Realities of Return Migration, PRIO Project Summary. Oslo: PRIO.