Course objectives: The main goal of the course is to enable students to understand migration processes within and beyond Southeast Europe in different historical periods and to enable understanding how migration processes influenced the formation of identity, formation of diaspora communities and transformation of social ties between parts of the region, as well as how these processes shape interconnection of the region with other parts of the world.

Enrolment requirements and/or entry competences required for the course: Enrolled in graduate studies

Learning outcomes at the level of the programme to which the course contributes:

(1) To identify and explain the ways in which local, national and transnational processes affect social structures in Southeast Europe

(2) Explain, analyze and compare the main historical events, processes and structures in Southeast Europe

(3) Identify, use, integrate and document data from a variety of sources

Expected learning outcomes at the level of the course:   

(1) To adopt basic concepts, typologies and theories from the interdisciplinary field of Migration Studies

(2) To identify, describe and critically analyse migration and post-migration phenomena and processes in Southeast Europe (from the 15th century to present)

(3) To compare and valorise migration policies in Southeast Europe

(4) To critically evaluate theoretical and empirical foundation of scientific and professional papers in the field of Migration Studies

(5) To conduct a desk research on migration topic in Southeast Europe

Course content (syllabus): Classes consist of lectures and seminars. The seminar part of the course is conducted in form of group projects, where students in groups discus on one of topics, which is chosen according to their own affinities and agreement with teachers. They analyse the topic with approach of desk research and present the seminar orally to colleagues. The content of the lectures is listed below:

(1) Introductory lecture (syllabus presentation, student expectations)

(2) History of migration research, typologies and theories of migration

(3) Historical migration in the region of Southeast Europe

(4) Migration in the region during the 20th century

(5) Intra-regional co-ethnic migration and emergence of “new minorities”

(6) Feminization of migration on the example of Southeast Europe

(7) Forced migration and the disintegration of Yugoslavia

(8) Forced migration in the region: displacement and return

(9) Politicization of migration in the region

(10) The region of Southeast Europe as an area of diaspora communities

(11) Regional diasporas in the world

(12) Recent migration trends in the region: insights from the periphery

(13) Migration and asylum policies: from Europeanization to Schengenization

(14) Post-migration processes in the region

(15) Conclusive lecture – repetition, review and summary of the course

Format of instruction: Lectures, seminars and workshops, independent assignments 

Student responsibilities: Regular class attendance and participation in discussions, creation and presentation of a seminar group project, written exam.

Monitoring student work: Class attendance, seminar paper, written exam

1. Bobic, Mirjana & Jankovic, Stefan (eds.) 2017. Towards Understanding of Contemporary Migration. Causes, Consequences, Policies, Reflections. Belgrade: Institute for Sociological Research. (chosen chapters)
2. Feischmidt, Margit; Pries, Ludger & Cantat, Celine (eds). 2019. Refugee Protection and Civil Society in Europe. New York: Springer International Publishing. (chosen chapters)    
3. Mesić, Milan & Bagić, Dragan. 2011. Minority Return to Croatia- Study of an Open Process. Zagreb: UNHCR.
4. Rajković Iveta, Marijeta; Kelemen, Petra & Župarić-Iljić, Drago (eds.) 2018. Contemporary Migration Trends and Flows on the Territory of Southeast Europe. Zagreb: FF Press. https://openbooks.ffzg.unizg.hr/index.php/FFpress/catalog/book/35 (chosen chapters)
5. Ramet, Sabrina P., & Valenta, Marko. (eds.). 2016. Ethnic minorities and politics in post-socialist Southeastern Europe. Cambridge University Press. (chosen chapters)      
6. Valenta, Marko, & Ramet, Sabrina. P. (eds.). 2011. The Bosnian diaspora: Integration in transnational communities. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. (chosen chapters) 

1. Bade, Klaus J. Emmer, Pieter C. Lucassen, Leo Oltmer, J., eds. 2011. The Encyclopedia of Migration and Minorities in Europe. From the 17th Century to the Present. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2. Brettel, Caroline; James Frank Hollifield. 2000. Migration Theory: Talking Across the Disciplines. Routledge. 1-26. 
3. Brunnbauer, Ulf. 2016. Globalizing Southeastern Europe. America, Emigrants and the State since the late 19th Century. Lanham, Md.: Lexington.
4. Glick Schiller, Nina et al. 1992. „Transnationalism: A New Analytical Framework for Understanding Migration“. // Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration. Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Reconsidered, eds. Nina Glick Schiller et al. New York: The New York Academy of Sciences, 1–24.
5. Gmelch, George. 1980. „Return migration“. Annual Reviews of Anthropology 9:135– 59.   
6. Grbić, Jadranka. 2000. „The Croatian Diaspora“. // Croatian Folk Culture at the Crossroads of Worlds and Eras, eds. Zorica Vitez and Aleksandra Muraj. Zagreb: Galerija Klovićevi dvori, 543-558.
7. King, Russell & Karamoschou, Chaido. 2019. „Fragmented and Fluid Mobilities: The Role of Onward Migration in the New Map of Europe and the Balkans“. Migracijske i etničke teme, 35 (2), 141-169. https://doi.org/10.11567/met.35.2.2
8. Krasteva, Anna. 2015. “Mobile Balkans: Temporality, Types, Trends,” Glasnik Etnografskog instituta 63 (3): 515–35.
9. MIGREC. 2020. Mapping of migration related research and policy development in the Western Balkan Countries – Report on prospective regional networks. https://migrec.fpn.bg.ac.rs/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Deliverable-1.3.pdf
10. Penninx, Rinus i Blanca Garcés-Mascareňas. 2016. “The Concept of Integration as an Analytical Tool and as a Policy Concept”. // Integration Processes and Policies in Europe: Contexts, Levels and Actors, eds. Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas i Rinus Penninx. Cham: Springer, 11–30. http://www.imiscoe.org/publications/library/2-imiscoe-research-series.
11. Rajković Iveta, Marijeta & Rina Geci. 2017. „Kosovar Albanian goldsmiths and bakers in Zagreb: Migration and etnic enterpreneurship“, Studia ethnologica Croatica 29: 279-330.
12. Rajković Iveta, Marijeta. 2015a. „Migrations, Shifting Borders and Identities in the Bay of Kotor (Boka Kotorska)” // Contextualizing Changes: Migration, Shifting Borders and New Identities in Eastern Europe / eds. Petko Hristov, Anelia Kasabova, Evgenia Troeva, Dagnoslaw Demski. Sofia: Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Archeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Science, 501-514.
13. Rajković Iveta, Marijeta. 2015b. „Women and Migrations in Croatia From Marginal Subjects – „White Widows” – to Contemporary Migrants into the EU”. Ethnologia Balkanica. Journal for Southeast European Anthropology 18: 67-84.
14. Rajković Iveta, Marijeta. 2012. „Dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Migration of New Minorities From and To Newly Formed States” // Migration and Identity. Historical, Cultural and Linguistic Dimensions of Mobility in the Balkans / eds. Petko Hristov. Sofija (Bugarska): Paradigma, Sofia, 152-162.
15. Šalamon, N. Kogovšek 2016. “Asylum Systems in the Western Balkan Countries: Current Issues,” International Migration 54 (6): 151–63.
16. Župarić-Iljić, D. & Valenta, Marko 2019. “Refugee Crisis” in the Southeastern European Countries: The Rise and Fall of the Balkan Corridor. // The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises, eds. C. Menjívar; M. Ruiz & I. Ness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 367-388.
17. Žagar, I. Ž., N. G. Šalamon, and M. L. Hacin (eds). 2018. The Disaster of European Refugee Policy: Perspectives from the “Balkan Route” (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing).