26 September 2022

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”.

 

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.