Migration and Diaspora Studies - Research, Policy & Public Engagement Sat, 23 Aug 2025 15:27:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://i0.wp.com/aidaibricevic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-Aida4-3-scaled-1.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 32 32 195946387 TRAFF Final Conference in Prishtina, Kosovo /traff-final-conference-in-prishtina-kosovo/&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=traff-final-conference-in-prishtina-kosovo Sun, 18 May 2025 16:52:41 +0000 / 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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]]> 727 Book talks /book-talks/&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-talks Wed, 01 Jan 2025 17:24:11 +0000 / 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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]]> 698 European Labor History Network (ELHN) Conference at Uppsala University /european-labor-history-network-elhn-conference-at-uppsala-university/&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=european-labor-history-network-elhn-conference-at-uppsala-university Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:59:18 +0000 / 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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]]> 651 Preserving diasporic memory /preserving-diasporic-memory/&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=preserving-diasporic-memory Sun, 03 Mar 2024 20:26:48 +0000 / 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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]]> 573 Book note for “How migration really works” by Hein de Haas /book-note-for-how-migration-really-works-by-hein-de-haas/&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-note-for-how-migration-really-works-by-hein-de-haas Tue, 09 Jan 2024 21:57:03 +0000 / 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 […]

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]]> 613 Returns of retirement: The Gastarbeiter reflect on working abroad to retire at home /returns-of-retirement-the-gastarbeiter-reflect-on-working-abroad-to-retire-at-home/&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=returns-of-retirement-the-gastarbeiter-reflect-on-working-abroad-to-retire-at-home Sun, 26 Nov 2023 18:41:50 +0000 / Although “returns of retirement” have been recognised as a distinct category of return migration as early as Cerase (1974), and identified as lying on the intersection of two highly important phenomena: ageing and migration (King, Cela, and Fokkema, 2021), “retirement return migration” has not yet received the full attention it deserves (Ciobanu & Ramos, 2016). […]

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]]> 475 A new beginning /a-new-beginning/&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-new-beginning Mon, 23 Oct 2023 09:40:21 +0000 / At a time of horrendous political events, in a world disfigured by deep pain and unimaginable suffering, it feels odd to be writing about a new research project investigating creative alternatives to the existing status quo. Yet, here we are. Thursday and Friday last week In Brussels were packed with presentations and discussions looking at […]

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]]> 569 Migration and Time /migration-and-time/&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=migration-and-time Thu, 30 Jun 2022 09:47:38 +0000 / Reflecting on this year’s IMISCOE conference and the role of time in understanding migration. After three years of strictly online conferencing, one of the largest international networks for migration research convened in Oslo (in-person and online) around the theme of temporalities in migration studies. This year’s IMISCOE conference offered a chance to reconnect with migration […]

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]]> 415 BiH Diasporic Conference: Organizovanje dijaspore nove generacije /bih-diasporic-conference-organizovanje-dijaspore-nove-generacije/&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bih-diasporic-conference-organizovanje-dijaspore-nove-generacije Sat, 07 May 2022 12:33:22 +0000 / “Sjećam se da smo moja sestra Tea i ja odlazile sa roditeljima na događaje bh. dijaspore organizovane u Čikagu i da je tu bilo veoma malo ljudi naših godina, vrlo malo onih sa kojima smo mogle razgovarati. Još jedna redovna učesnica je bila i Nura Eston iz Toronta, Kanade. Međutim, bile smo sigurne da nismo […]

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]]> 381 Bosanski St. Louis: Između dva svijeta /bosanski-st-louis-izmedu-dva-svijeta/&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bosanski-st-louis-izmedu-dva-svijeta Tue, 12 Apr 2022 16:01:08 +0000 / Od Patricka McCarthyja, autora knjige After the Fall: Srebrenica Survivors in St. Louis (2000), u koautorstvu sa Akifom Cogom najesen stiže nova knjige o bosanskohercegovačkoj dijasporskoj zajednici u St. Louisu. U ovom razgovoru, Patrick McCarthy kazuje o nastanku knjige Bosnian St. Louis: Between Two Worlds, kao i o njenoj važnosti za dokumentovanje života bh. dijaspore u SAD-u.  Inspiracija za […]

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