July 2021

MIGREC at Neuchatel Graduate Conference of Migration and Mobility Studies

Events

Members of the MIGREC team Violeta Marković, Danijela Pavlović and Sanja Polić Penavić participated at the conference „Neuchatel Graduate Conference of Migration and Mobility Studies“ organized by the University of Neuchatel with presentation „Protection of Migrants and Refugees during COVID-19 in the Republic of Serbia – perspective of professionals in the social protection system“ on July 2, 2021.

The conference was structured around six topics:

  1. Borders – securitization
  2. (Non)essential mobility and unequal migration management
  3. Normative accesses to migration, mobility and citizenship
  4. Family spatial configurations in new mobility framework
  5. Social protection of movable population
  6. Future of asylum

In order to analyze and understand changes in the system of social security of migrants and refugees in the Republic of Serbia during the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors carried out a qualitative research with professionals working in the system of social protection of migrants. Violeta Marković pointed out that professionals faced with multiple challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health crisis caused worries among the respondents for lives of their families and friends, their own life and lives of their dependants. She stressed that the research results showed that professionals faced many challenges deriving from 24/7 lockdown of refugees and migrants in the Republic of Serbia during the state of emergency and even after it. The lack of information for refugees and migrants, lack of appropriate cooperation with health, educational and legal systems have been the most frequent challenges; in addition, the respondents encountered aggravation of public perception of refugees and migrants in Serbia, Marković said.

She further underlined that the COVID-19 pandemic did not influence new arrivals into the Republic of Serbia, but again underlined the lack of capacities for adjustment of the social protection system and lack of readiness for critical situation – starting from the challenges in consistent and even supply of protective equipment to the lack of supervision for professionals.


MIGREC at Neuchatel Graduate Conference of Migration and Mobility Studies Read More »

MIGREC’s second Publishing Seminar a success

News

In June 2021 the MIGREC project held its second Publishing Seminar on the theme ‘Publish or Perish: publishing internationally’. The seminar was led by ELIAMEP team members of MIGREC, Dr. Ioannis Armakolas and Dr. Julianne Funk, who are also editors of the journal “Southeast European and Black Sea Studies” (SEEBSS). The three sessions of the seminar were held online and attended mostly by University of Belgrade MA students, PhD candidates and professors, but also other MIGREC team members from ELIAMEP and SEERC. The goal of the seminar was to grow participants’ capacities to produce more appealing research outputs for prominent international scientific journals.

Guest speaker at the first session was Giulia Guariento, Portfolio Manager – Area Studies, Taylor & Francis Group, who focused on journal ranking and impact factor. Guariento elaborated on two main topics: the relevancy of the impact factor and journal ranking and the benefits and disadvantages of the metric and exploring alternatives. The session aimed at helping early career researchers to avoid common pitfalls during the publication process. It covered basic dos and don’ts and publication best practice checklists.

The second session featured Dr. Sabine Rutar, an Editor-in-Chief of “Comparative Southeast European Studies” and concentrated around open access (OA). The session was devoted to the discussion of the pros and cons of open access publishing. Dr. Rutar shared her experience and advice as an editor of international open access journal where participants may want to publish in future.

The third session of the seminar featured Madeleine Hatfield, Founder and Editor of Yellowback with the presentation “Being peer reviewed and becoming a peer reviewer”. This session considered how the journal peer review process works what to expect and do when you receive peer reviews on your work, why you would want to do a peer review yourself and how to become a peer reviewer.


MIGREC’s second Publishing Seminar a success Read More »