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…
Prema saopštenju Republičkog zavoda za statistiku, u periodu od januara do decembra 2020. godine bilo je 13.9 odsto više umrlih nego u istom periodu 2019. godine. “Objavljeni podaci o vitalnim događajima 2020. godine predstavljaju jasnu potvrdu da se nastavljaju decenijski negativni demografski trendovi u Srbiji, koji su intenzivirani aktuelnom pandemijom. Do skoro smo govorili da…
On behalf of The Migration Conference Organizing Committee, we cordially invite you to the 9th conference in the series which will take place online and hosted by Ming-Ai Institute, London, United Kingdom from 6 to 10 July 2021. The Conference is a forum for discussion where experts, young researchers and students, practitioners and policymakers working…
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…
Western Balkans Migration Network (further WB-MIGNET), organized the First Regional Winter School “Diaspora for Local Development”, held in Belgrade, Serbia in period of 10 – 11 December 2019 at ENVOY Conference Center. This innovative Winter School aims to involve experts and practitioners from the Western Balkans to establish connections, exchange knowledge and learn from the…
Center for Development Evaluation and Social Science Research – CREDI (member of WB-MIGNET) invites applications for its Internship Programme. CREDI internship program provides students with a unique research experience that introduces all aspects of social science research and includes supported exploration of a research query from research question to a report, as well as data…
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…
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…
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 a title of article that fills a gap in theories of forced migration. Nermin Oruč, WB-MIGNET Coordinator and other authors present a new model, motivated by specific features of forced migration during a conflict which do not feature in existing migration…
Our members Danica Šantić, Merita Zulfiu and Nermin Oruč, as Coordinator of WB-MIGNET, participated at a high level panel-discussion organized by OSCE on 18 December 2019 in Vienna, on the occasion of the International Migrants Day. The title of the panel discussion was “Advancing Human Capital Development Through Migration and Innovation”. OSCE diplomats, migration experts…
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 institution South East European University with Merita Zulfiu as representative, participated in project titled „Inclusion of Roma and Migrants in Schools: Trainings, Open Discussions and Youth Volunteering Activities (RoMigSc)”. The main aim of this project is to support better integration of Roma and migrant children in education through various activities. Education is crucial…
The Migration Conference Organizing Committee publishes call for papers for the 8th conference in the series which will take place in South East European University, Tetovo, North Macedonia from 9-11 September 2020. The Conference is conference co-organised between WB-MIGNET and Regent’s University London. The conference represents a forum for discussion where experts, young researchers and…
Coordinator of WB-MIGNET and director of Center for Development Evaluation and Social Science Research Nermin Oruc along with CREDI’s research fellows Dzeneta Karabegovic and Jasmin Hasic participated in the study on mapping the Bosnian-Herzegovinian diaspora. The study was conducted under the coordination of the International Organization for Migration, Mission to BiH and the Ministry of…
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…
President of the Academic Advisory Board of WB-MIGNET, Prof. Russell King and Coordinator of WB-MIGNET, Nermin Oruc, were lecturers at the Second Uni Adrion Summer School in Ancona, 9-13 September 2019. UniAdrion Summer School on “Migration and mobility in the Balkans” intends to provide an intensive training course for Master and PhD students, young researchers…
The Sixth Scientific Conference with International Participation “Economy of Integration” , ICEI 2019, (E)MIGRATIONS AND COMPETITIVENESS OF SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES will take place on December 5th – 7th, 2019 in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Conference is organized by the Faculty of Economics,University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina,and co-organizers Faculty of Economics, University of J. J.…
Center for Development Evaluation and Social Science Research as member of a consortium led by Centre for Economic and Social Studies – CESS from Tirana, Albania won funding for project proposal “Internships of young researchers to migration think tanks in Western Balkans”. The consortium includes two more members from Western Balkans Migration Network: University of…
The growing diversity and complexity of international migration present a need for re-conceptualizing migration research. The aim of the 2019 INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION, INTEGRATION AND SOCIAL COHESION Annual Conference is to facilitate exchanges in new concepts and innovative methodologies for understanding human migration in the 21st Century. During 2019 IMISCOE Annual Conference coordinator of Western Balkan…
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…
Our coordinator and director of the Centre for Development Evaluation and Social Science Research (CREDI) Nermin Oruc participated at the workshop titled ‘Migration in the Western Balkans’. The workshop was organized by the EC DG NEAR and ICMPD, and was held on 24 – 25 January at the Metropol Hotel, Belgrade. The workshop enabled participants…
On Friday, 14.12.2018. in Sarajevo a workshop of ” Western Balkans Migration Network” was held, gather researchers from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Western Balkans region. This event was organized with support of the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth of the Sarajevo Canton. In addition to the researchers, participants at the workshop were also…
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…
“A search for that special place under the sun in modern Europe: migration in the twenty first century” Zagreb, May 25–26, 2018 The Institute of Economics, Zagreb, a member of WB-MIGNET, in cooperation with University College Effectus for Law and Finance and The Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, is organizing the third Western Balkans…
Members of the WB-MIGNET’s Executive Board, Nermin Oruc, Danica Santic and Merita Zulfiu, participated at a high level panel-discussion organized by IOM and OSCE on 18 December 2017 in Vienna, on the occasion of the International Migrants Day. The title of the panel discussion was “Perception is not reality – Towards a new narrative of…
On Thursday, November 16, in the Bosniak Institute was held the promotion of the project “Scientific portal of the Bosniak Institute-Foundation Adil Zulfikarpašić”, which aims to connect the Bosnian-Herzegovinian scientific research community with diaspora scientists. The Scientific Portal of the Bosniak Institute – Adil Zulfikarpašić Foundation is an institutional online research repository that combines…
On November 16, 2017, in the premises of the Foreign Trade Chamber of BiH, was officially presented the online platform Diasporainvest.ba, realized by USAID’s Project “Supporting Diaspora Investment in Bosnia and Herzegovina”. The Platform envisions a series of activities for linking and supporting the creation of new business opportunities for cooperation with the BiH Diaspora…
Next RSA MICaRD research network event will be hosted jointly by Lincoln International Business School and Lincoln School of Geography. This symposium aims to foreground migrant perspectives and experiences, and situate these within contemporary debates on migration and the socio-political context of Brexit Britain as well as the broader debates on migration across Europe. Current…
Conference on “Migration, Diaspora and Development in Albania and in the Western Balkans” is supported by the CEI (Central European Initiative). The organiser of the conference is Center for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Tirana, which is part of the Western Balkans Migration Network (WB-MIGNET), in collaboration with Private Mediterranean University of Albania. The themes of…
Members of our executive board currently are working on various research projects in migration. Merita Zulfiu Alili is involved in project called “Inclusion of Roma and Migrants in Schools: Trainings, Open Discussions and Youth Volunteering Activities (RoMigSc)”. The project objectives are creating inclusive and democratic learning environments, encouraging youth participation, developing inclusion and outreach practices…
Međunarodna organizacija za migracije (IOM) BiH i Razvojni program Ujedinjenih nacija (UNDP) BiH u saradnji sa Ministarstvom za ljudska prava i izbjeglice Bosne i Hercegovine (MLJPI) i uz podršku Vlade Švajcarske trenutno sprovode projekat ‘’Dijaspora za razvoj’’. Jedna od aktivnosti ovog projekta je mapiranje dijaspore, istraživanje koje će se sprovesti u Austriji, Australiji, Danskoj, Njemačkoj, Italiji,…
Emigration from Kosovo into western European countries has been a large-scale phenomenon in recent years. The money sent back to Kosovo by migrants working abroad is currently an important element of the country’s economy, but a recent study has found that the return of migrants to Kosovo could prove even more beneficial. Ardiana Gashi and Nick Adnett suggest that government policies should encourage…
You can download presentations from 2nd Annual Conference bellow: Russell King – Return Migration and Development: Theoretical Perspectives and Insights from the Albanian Experience Milica Gačić – MIGRATORY CHARACTERISTICS OF SERBIAN BORDER MUNICIPALITIES – IDENTICAL OR DIVERS TRENDS DURING THE LAST DECADES Chiara Milan-Refugees and forced migrants in the Western Balkans. Civic response to the refugee crisis…
International Consultant (mapping of BiH diaspora in AUT, ITA, SVN and CHE) International Consultant (mapping of BiH diaspora in DNK, SWE, NLD and DEU) International Consultant (mapping of BiH diaspora in Australia) International Consultant (mapping of BiH diaspora in USA) Lead International Consultant National Consultant – Grade OTHE When applying for a specific vacancy: Write…
OUT-MIGRATION AND CIRCULAR MIGRATION: IMPACTS ON REGIONS AND COMMUNITIES 11-12 September 2017, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland as part of the: Regional Studies Association Research Network on Migration, Inter-Connectivity and Regional Development (MICaRD) Download Call for papers here
Second Annual Conference of the Western Balkans Migration Network “Migration in the Western Balkans: What do we know?” Sarajevo, 19-20 May 2017 #WBMigNetConf The Western Balkans Migration Network (WB-MIGNET), in cooperation with the International Burch University (IBU), is organizing its 2nd Annual Conference in Sarajevo on 19-20 May 2017. The Conference is financially support…
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We are happy to announce that the Central European Initiative decided to provide financial support to CDESS for organization of the Second Annual Conference of WB-MIGNET through their Cooperation Fund 2016. After receiving the financial support for our First Annual Conference, we continue our successful cooperation with CEI. We highly appreciate their support in our…
The First Annual Conference of the Western Balkans Migration Network (WB-MIGNET) in Tirana on 15-16 April 2016, marked the initiation of the Network activities. It was attended by a number of representatives from government institutions, international organisations, academia and students. Welcome speeches were delivered by Prof. Anastas Angjeli, member of the Albanian Academy of Sciences…
First Annual Conference of the Western Balkans Migration Network (WB-MIGNET) will take place in Tirana, Albania. The two-day event, lasting from April 15-16, will mark the initiation of the Network activities and, hopefully, the beginning of a successful Western Balkans Story. Representatives of 7 participating countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and…
Background Group 484 in figures: ● 17 years of existence ● More than 100.000 beneficiaries since its founding ● Voluntary and cooperative network of more than 500 people ● Over 100 projects implemented ● Thousands realized workshops, round tables, public events ● Full members of the three International Networks ● Partnerships and cooperative relations with…
The Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognoses (ISSP) established by Professor Veselin Vukotic, with some his young colleagues, in 1997, is the first independent economic institute in Montenegro. The ISSP is the leading independent economic think tank in Montenegro, serving as: · An institution to set the agenda for advocating reform; · A vehicle to communicate economic…
In spring 2000, OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities initiated discussions for establishment of a new university in the Republic of Macedonia, which was supported by international donors. Following the adoption of the Law on Higher Education by the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia, that allowed the founding of universities that are not related…
The Institute of Economics, Zagreb is a public scientific institute founded in 1939 with a longstanding tradition in conducting economic research. The Institute employs a highly educated research team, enthusiastic about their research activities as well as creative and open-minded about new ideas. Our service departments are fully qualified to provide all the necessary research…
The Center for Economic and Social Studies (CESS) is an independent, non-partisan and nonprofit organization dedicated to the study of economic and social issues in Albania following the democratic changes of 1990. Naturally areas like migration, issues related to marginalize societal groups like Roma, economic and social development as well as regional and European integration…
