PhD candidate Nataša Milošević from the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Science, participated in a two-week study visit in Thessaloniki, Greece from March 12 to 26, 2023.
As part of the study visit, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the oldest Archaeological Museum in Greece, she visited an exhibition dedicated to the history of Thessaloniki as a city with the epithet “mother of migration” due to intensive centuries of immigration. Through the exhibition, elements of Greek, Jewish and Oriental culture were presented, which strongly influenced the socio-cultural and spatial identity of the city.
As part of her research work on the topic of her doctoral dissertation “The policy of integration of forced migrants into the labour market from 2015 to 2022 in the Republic of Greece”, Nataša Milošević visited York City University Campus, where a summer school on migration is organized every year. In the university library, she collected useful data for the needs of her research.
As a part of the dissertation research, she conducted interviews with experts in the field of migrant employment and migration management, representatives of the Red Cross in Greece, Caritas, Ecopolis and the organization Pervolarides from Thessaloniki.
Also, the researcher visited the Social club, the oldest non-governmental organization in Greece “Ecopolis”, which provides help and support to refugees, and the Multifunctional Center of the Red Cross in Greece, where counseling services are provided for refugees and asylum seekers.
This study visit enabled Nataša Milošević to complete part of the research within the doctoral dissertation, which involved conducting semi-structured interviews with interested parties on the subject of the policies of integration of forced migrants in the Republic of Greece.
