Erlend Paasche is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo, specializing on the corruption-migration nexus. As a consultant, he has taken part in several governmentally commissioned evaluations of Return programmes for rejected asylum seekers in Norway to Iraq, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Kosovo and Nigeria. As a doctoral researcher he wrote the dissertation Return Migration and Corruption: Experiences of Iraqi Kurds, addressing the role of corruption for migrants’ return decision-making and post-return reintegration. Last year Paasche led a small network of researchers exploring the linkages between corruption and migration, financed with seed money from the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).