Author: Aida Ibričević
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TRAFF Final Conference in Prishtina, Kosovo
As I am nearing the end of ethnographic fieldwork for the Swedish contribution to the MORE Project, I was looking for ways to connect my PhD work on decided return migration with my postdoctoral research on return and readmission policies. The notion of “sustainability” of return and reintegration, both on a conceptual level and in policy implementation, came…
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Book talks
I am grateful for the opportunity to present and discuss my book Decided Return Migration: Emotions, Citizenship, Home and Belonging in Bosnia and Herzegovina at various online and in-person events: October 2024 – PRIO Migration Center/online November 2024 – Istanbul Bilgi University/in-person – Istanbul, Turkiye December, 2024-Özyegin University/in-person – Istanbul, Turkiye March, 2025 – GenSeM…
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European Labor History Network (ELHN) Conference at Uppsala University
It was great fun presenting a conference paper on returns of retirement, an extension of a blogpost I wrote earlier and based on data collected by the Museum of Yugoslavia and the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. My paper was part of a panel entitled “Between past and future: memory and the workers’ perspective.”…
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Preserving diasporic memory
Studying memory, in its collective and performative forms, has been at the centre of scholarly interest for a couple of decades, argues Muller-Suleymanova (2024) in Remembering and dealing with violent past: diasporic experiences and transnational dimensions, the Introduction to a recent Special Issue of the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies. The special issue brings together…
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Book note for “How migration really works” by Hein de Haas
I must say that 2024 is off to a pretty good start for me! Ordering a book for a university library seems like a simple and ordinary thing to do, but this is a privilege I certainly do not take for granted. In fact, I feel deeply grateful to order books for the Linkoping University…