12 June 2023

Women on the Move – WEMov, a COST project, brings together researchers focused on the role and participation of female migrants in the construction of Europe. Combining approaches from history, sociology, demography, economics, anthropology, political science and art, the researchers show how migrant women changed Europe’s past and present. On June 6, 2023, Natalija Perišić presented her work on the topic „Migrant women in theory and research – a view from the Western Balkans“ as part of the training session for this project, which was held at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Tuzla. She pointed out the (un)justification of the discourse on the so-called feminization of migration and the position of gender in migration studies. Speaking about the global perspective, she pointed out the specifics of the absence/presence of gender in the analysis and research of forced and voluntary migration in the Western Balkans.

Master students of the Faculty of Political Science visited the Group 484 on June 1, 2023. Miroslava Jelacic and Gordana Grujicic, legal experts from the Group 484, introduced the students and their professor to a brief history of the organization, which began its work in the 1990s with a view to supporting the so called old refugees, i.e. refugees who fled to Serbia from Croatia as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina and also internally displaced persons from Kosovo. After several decades of work, the Group 484 represents one of the grassroots organizations in the area and deals with migration within the frameworks of development, integration, forced displacement, etc. Numerous experts and volunteers of the Group 484 are engaged in projects aimed at creating a society open to migrants and migration, and the public activities they carry out are aimed at bridging the gaps between the native and migrant populations.