Biljana Đorđević is an Assistant Professor at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Science, Department of Political Science where she teaches Contemporary Political Theory, Culture of Human Rights, Political Culture and Political Order, Political Philosophy and Gender Issues at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She obtained her M.Sc. in Political Theory Research, from the Hertford College, University of Oxford, England with the thesis “The Immigration Contract” and PhD in Politics from the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade with the thesis “The Problem of Constitution of the Body Politic in Democratic Theories”. Her scientific and research interests in the migration field concern political ethics of migration, citizenship and migration, integration policies of migrants, and democracy and migration. She has been engaged in the capacity of adviser and researcher by numerous national and international organizations residing in Serbia to produce strategies, papers and reports on migration management, migrants’ rights and immigrant integration into society. She has been publishing on the problems of boundary in ex-Yugoslav space with an emphasis of refugees, politics of return, ethics of migration, CEE walled states and Serbia’s position within the EU policy of migration flows’ management.
Migration-related publications
Đorđević, B. (2017) Lišeni diskursa legitimacije: zazidane zemlje Centralne Evrope i politički subjektiviteti u nastajanju [Depraved of legitimating discourse: CEE walled states and emerging political subjectivities]. Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU LXV (3): 527-541.
Đorđević, B. (2015) Whose Rights, Whose Return? The Boundary Problem and Unequal Restoration of Citizenship in the Post-Yugoslav Space. Ethnopolitics 14 (2): 121-139.
Đorđević, B. (2013) Politics of Return, Inequality and Citizenship in the Post-Yugoslav Space. CITSEE Working Paper Series 2013/29, Edinburgh School of Law, 1-27. Available at: http://www.citsee.ed.ac.uk/working_papers/files/CITSEE_WORKING_PAPER_2013-29.pdf
Đorđević, B. (2012) Managing Migration through Earned Citizenship: the Deserving and the Others. CITSEE story. Available at: http://citsee.eu/citsee-story/managing-migration-through-earned-citizenship-deserving-and-others
Đorđević, B. (2009) The European Policy on the Management of Migration Flaws and Serbia’s Role Within It. Western Balkan Security Observer 4 (12): 78-91.
Đorđević, B. (2008) Etika migracije, Godišnjak Fakulteta političkih nauka 2 (2): 239-253.
Migration-related projects
MIGREC – Migration, Integration and Governance Research Centre, 2019-2022, the EU H2020 funded project, 857261.
CITSEE – The Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Successor States of the Former Yugoslavia (CITSEE), 2009-2014, FP7 Ideas: European Research Council (Brussels), 230239.
Migration-related conferences
Đorđević, B. The importance of being bold in social inclusion of refugees and migrants in Serbia. Refugee Crisis Two Years Later: The Past and the Future of the Balkan Route, MIGRATE’s project international conference, Fakultet političkih nauka, Belgrade, 26 April 2018
Đorđević, B. Democracy as a life among strangers: rethinking the progressive dilemma. The Multiple Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, Inter-University Center Dubrovnik, 3-7 April 2018
Đorđević, B. Depraved of legitimating discourse: CEE walled states, human rights in transit and emerging political subjectivities. 8th CEE Forum Central and Eastern European socio-political and legal transition revisited – theoretical perspectives. Budapest, 22-23 April 2016
Đorđević, B. Neželjene migracije manjina u EU: između promovisanja i kršenja ljudskim i građanskih prava. 19. međunarodni skup “Nacionalne manjine u demokratskim drustvima”, Brijuni, Hrvatska, 21-24. maj 2015.
Đorđević, B. Problem migracija kao izazov ključnim političkim konceptima i dominantnim političkim teorijama. Okrugli sto u organizaciji Etnografskog instituta SANU, Naučno istraživanje migracija u Srbiji: problemi i inicijative, Okrugli sto, 8. devembar 2014.
Đorđević, B. Citizenship as an expression of the special ties that bind: a right or a matter of qualification and privilege? The international conference Fundamental Rights: Justification and Interpretation, Law Faculty, Belgrade, 24-25 October 2014
Đorđević, B. Inequality and Politics of Return in the post-Yugoslav Republics. The 20th International Conference of Europeanists, Crisis and Contingency: States of (In)stability, University of Amsterdam, June 25-27, 2013.
Đorđević, B. Politics of Return, Inequality and Citizenship in the post-Yugoslav Space. The Edinburgh School of Law symposium Varieties of Citizenship in South East Europe, Edinburgh, 6-7 June, 2013.
Đorđević, B. Inequality and Politics of Return in the post-Yugoslav Space. The ASN World Convention Columbia University, New York, 18-20 April 2013.
Đorđević, B. Inequality and Politics of Return in the post-Yugoslav Republics. The 3rd Young Scientists Forum on Central and South East Europe, (In-)Equality – Political, Economic, Social, Spatial and Gender Aspects, Vienna, 6-8 December 2012.