September 2022

MIGREC at the Serbian Political Science Association Annual International Conference

News

The 16th International scientific conference “Social Justice in Post-Communist Societies”, organized by the Serbian Political Science Association (SPSA) took place at the Faculty of Political Science in Belgrade, from 24-25 September 2022. The Conference focus was on the analysis of social justice in post-communist transformation, from political and economic perspectives.

MIGREC team members presented two papers.

Dejan Pavlović, Danica Šantić and Natalija Perišić presented their paper titled „Policy Considerations when Facing Asylum Applications Influx”. They pointed to increased numbers of asylum applications globally, including the Western Balkans and Serbia, along with low rates of positive decisions. They showed that a governmental stance is influenced by numerous factors, some of them being: solidarity, international obligation to non-refoulment, political considerations, level of xenophobia in that state, media coverage, pressure from the civil society. In that context, authors showed governments’ actions in the region regarding the social justice in their treating asylum seekers.

Nevenka Žegarac, Anita Burgund Isakov and Violeta Marković presented their paper titled “Multiple and prolonged traumas – experiences of children with violence on the Western Balkans Route”. They pointed that children migrating along the Balkans Route have been exposed to all basic (physical, psychological and sexual) and many other types of violence, along with other endangering circumstances, in the countries of origin and transit. In children and in their narratives, there are symptoms characteristic of prolonged exposure to multiple traumatic experiences. Authors highlighted that experiencing such traumas in the most vulnerable part of children’s life has consequences on their development and can be connected with immediate and long-term negative impact on their health.


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MIGREC at the conference “National minorities, migration and security” (2022)

Events

The 26th international scientific conference “National minorities, migration and security”, organized by the Center for International and Security Studies, Faculty of Political Science (University of Zagreb) took place in Brijuni Islands, Croatia from 19-21 September 2022. The conference was attended by scientists and experts from the Republic of Croatia and abroad, who deal with the rights of national minorities, contemporary migration and security studies. The co-organizers of this year’s conference were the Council for National Minorities of the Republic of Croatia, The Network for Academic Cooperation in Southeast Europe and the Faculty of Security of the University of Belgrade.

The conference covered three thematic areas:

  • National minorities in democratic societies
  • Migration and migration policies
  • Global security challenges.

MIGREC team members presented four interesting papers at the conference. Dejan Pavlović, Danica Šantić and Natalija Perišić presented „Fairness lost – deterioration of procedural and substantive rights in treating migrants on the Balkan route beyond the COVID-19 crisis“. Danijela Pavlović and Violeta Marković focused on „Migration and cultural identity“. Nevena Trnavčević and Milica Langović presented on the topic „There’s no place like home? Emigration intentions of Serbian youth“. Nataša Milošević presented “Gender perspective of the migrant support program in the Republic of Serbia since the beginning of the migrant crisis in 2015”.

 

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The Second Summer School

Events

The Faculty of Political Science hosted the Second Summer School within H2020 MIGREC Project from from 19-21 September 2022. The Migration Research Group from the University of Sheffield organized the Second Summer School. Lecturers and discussants were Majella Kilkey, Ryan Powell, Olga Fuseini, Lois Orton, Julie Walsh. Senior and junior researchers as well as PhD candidates and master students from the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Science attended the School.

The Second Summer School had two elements. The first was a series of presentations from MA / PhD students about their planned research; this provided an opportunity to test out ideas in a supportive environment and to receive constructive feedback from peers, academic staff at the University of Belgrade and visiting academics from the University of Sheffield.

The second element was a series of workshops focused on the theme of researching with marginalized communities. Through presentations and reflexive discussions of three research projects being undertaken at the University of Sheffield, the workshops addressed the ethical and methodological challenges encountered when working with migrant communities in ways that try to avoid (re-)producing marginality, and potential strategies to overcome them.


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MIGREC at the conference “Challenges of Central and Eastern Europe – Conflicts and Migration”

Events, News

The international scientific conference “Challenges of Central and Eastern Europe – Conflicts and Migration”, organized by the Institute of Central and Eastern Europe, the Three Seas Foundation and the Doctoral Science Club on Politics of the University of Silesia, Poland was held online on September 13-14, 2022. The conference brought together scholars and experts from the region of Central and Eastern Europe and worldwide working on migration and peace issues and included many panels. The overall framework of the conference was set by developments from recent months during which the world witnessed the migration crisis on the Polish – Belarusian border, with currently about 2 million Ukrainian refugees in Poland. As a consequence, migration challenges in Europe intensify.

Natalija Perisic, member of the MIGREC team, presented at the expert panel her presentation “Conflicts and Migration – A View from Serbia”. She touched the challenge of migration and conflicts in the context which is social, historical, economic and legal. She focused her presentation around the impact of wars on migration and mobility in the Western Balkans, the differences between the impact of migration “crisis” of 2015 and the Ukrainian crisis in Serbia and preparedness of the state to react in emergency situations. She also presented the main obstacles and opportunities for the integration of migrants in Serbia as well as the impact of war trauma to the destination communities.


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