did research on North Norway for many years, then in the mid-1990s turned her attention to Albania. She has been awarded several research grants to undertake studies of southern Albanian society in both the present and the past, and this work continues.
Some recent publications that have arisen from the research:
Beryl Nicholson 2006. Women who shared a husband: polygyny in Southern Albania in the early twentieth century, History of the Family 11(1): 45-57. Definitive text (PDF format) (opens in a new window).
Beryl Nicholson 2006. L'occupazione austro-ungarica di Mallakastër in Albania e le sue ripercussioni sulla popolazione civile. Pp.127-146 in Bruna Bianchi ed., La violenza contro i civili durante la Grande guerra. Deportati, profughi, internati. Milano: Unicopli.
Beryl Nicholson 2004. The tractor, the shop and the filling station: Work migration as self-help development in Albania, Europe-Asia Studies 56(6):877-890. Download this article in PDF format (in a new window).
Beryl Nicholson 2002. The wrong end of the telescope: Economic migrants, immigration policy, and how it looks from Albania. The Political Quarterly 73(4):436-444.
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Beryl Nicholson 1999. The beginning of the end of a rebellion. Southern Albania May-June 1997. East European Politics and Societies 13(3):543-565. Download this article in PDF format (in a new window).
Other publications since 1990 include:
Beryl Nicholson 1990. The hidden component in census-derived migration data: Assessing its size and distribution, Demography 27(1):111-119.
Beryl Nicholson 1991. Longeur des périodes intercensitaires et ampleur des omissions dans les données migratoires issues des recensements, Population 46(5):1283-1289. Download this article in PDF format (in a new window).
Beryl Nicholson 1992. If the theory fits: a tale of academic self-delusion and policy-makers' expediency, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 16(3):397-407.
Beryl Nicholson 1993. From interest group to (almost) equal citizenship: Women representatives in the Norwegian parliament. Parliamentary Affairs, 46(2):255-263. Download this paper in PDF format (in a new window).
Beryl Nicholson 1995. Domestic production and the market: Where status and contract meet. Sociology 29(2):221-239.
Beryl Nicholson 1996. Personal histories and social restructuring: the transformation of a peasant society. The Sociological Review 44(1):35-57. Download this article in PDF format (in a new window).
Beryl Nicholson 1999. The Census of the Austro-Hungarian occupied districts of Albania in spring 1918. A preliminary note on the manuscript census schedules. Centre for Scandinavian Studies Papers/Skrifter 5. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Beryl Nicholson 2004. Migrants as agents of development: Albanian return migrants and micro-enterprise, in D. Pop, Ed. New Patterns of Labour Migration in Central and Eastern Europe. Cluj Napoca, Romania:AMM Editura:94-110. http://www.cenpo.ro/files/07%20Migration.pdf
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