A book chapter titled “Gender Differences in the Effect of Migration and Remittances on Labour Market Participation in Bosnia and Herzegovina” coo-authored by our researchers Nermin Oruč and Amela Kurta is published in edited volume Social Exclusion and Labour Market Challenges in the Western Balkans, by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The volume is edited by Will…
Our director Nermin Oruc participated at the 3rd conference of the German Network of Forced Migration Researchers organized on 17-19 September 2020. The conference took place on-line and was organized by the Chair of Youth Welfare and Social Work at the University of Cologne with the executive board of the German Network of Forced Migration…
Our director Nermin Oruc participated at digital conference organized by Aspen Institute, Germany on 10-11 September 2020. The topic of the conference was “Emigration from the Western Balkans – Addressing the Challenge“ and Nermin presented his paper on remittances and diaspora for development in the Western Balkans. The conference offered a platform for a selected…
The Migration Conference Organizing Committee has been closely monitoring developments of the impact of COVID-19 emergency at local and global levels and has followed advice provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of the North Macedonia. Taking into account the rapid increase of cases worldwide, the Migration Conference Organizing Committee decided to…
Western Balkan Migration Network (WB-MIGNET) invites applications for its Visiting Research Fellow (VRF) in migration. The VRF programme enables doctoral student (PhD students) to spend a period of time conducting research at following. The WB-MIGNET aims to put in place a programme to enable young research with a genuine and active commitment to social science…
University of Bologna, Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione and Cantieri Meticci will host the International Summer School Performing arts and migration. Theories and Practices for Inclusive Cities at Arena del Sole Teathre from 9th to 14th June 2020 in Bologna (Italy), The summer school offers an interdisciplinary course on international migration, performing arts and public space.…
As part of our mission to support researchers. policy makers and wider public with evidence on migration issues in the Western Balkans, we are starting to publish a series of visualisations of migration related data available for the Western Balkans. The first visualisation is presenting trends in the annual inflows of remittances to the Western…
