A paper titled “Transitional Shelters on a Policy Landslide – Experiencing Displacement on the Frontline in Bosnia and Herzegovina” was published in the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. The paper is co-authored by Nermin Oruč, our Director of Research, Danica Šantić and Simona Degiorgi. This article sheds light on the status of migrants…
Nowadays, the Western Balkan region mainly represents a transit zone for refugees and migrants from the Middle East, West and South Asia and Africa aiming to reach Western and Northern Europe. Almost one million people crossed the Western Balkans (WB) to enter the EU in 2015-16. The official ‘closure’ of the route in March 2016…
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…
The journal Migration and Ethnic Themes published new special issue in December 2019. This special issue of the journal contains selected papers from the Third Annual Conference of the Western Balkans Migration Network (WB-MIGNET), which took place at the University College Effectus for Law and Finance, Zagreb, 25–26 May 2018. Our president of Academic Advisory…
“Are Forced Migrants More Skilled? A Theoretical Model of Self-Selection in Forced Migration” is the title of an article that fills a gap in theories of forced migration. Our director, Nermin Oruc, coauthored this article with Ian Jackson and Geoffrey Pugh. The article is presenting a new model, motivated by specific features of forced migration…
A book titled “Migration in the Western Balkans: What do we know?” co-edited by WB-MIGNET’s chair of the Academic Advisory Board, Prof. Russell King and by Coordinator of WB-MIGNET Nermin Oruc, was published by Taylor&Francis. The book is an outcome of recent activities of the WB-MIGNET. The book explores issues such as the complex geopolitics…
Our member of Executive Board Danica Santic and coordinator of WB-MIGNET are authors of policy brief titled“Highly-Skilled Return Migrants to the Western Balkans: Should we count (on) them?” that is published in Migration Observatory Collected Publications 2018-19.This book is a collection of the publications produced within the Prague Process Migration Observatory in 2018. The ambition…
Coordinator of Western Balkan Migration Network and director of CREDI Nermin Oruc along with CREDI’s CREDI’s research fellows Dzeneta Karabegovic, Jasmin Hasic participated in the World Bank project „Supporting the Effective Reintegration of Roma Returnees in the Western Balkans “. The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG-NEAR) approached the World Bank to…
Nermin Oruc, Coordinator of WB-MIGNET and director of CREDI, was one of authors of the report “Maximising the development impact of labour migration in the Western Balkans”. The report was prepared within a project financed by the European Union and implemented by IBF International Consulting. The objectives of the project were: – to analyse innovative…
