The second two-day Annual Conference of the Western Balkans Migration Network titled „Migration in the Western Balkans: What do we know?“ was held at International Burch University on 19-20 May 2017.
The conference brought together Western Balkans scholars and policy makers, in order to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and a discussion of migration. It challenged existing models and discourses of migration, addressed current policy challenges, and offered solutions for more humane treatment of migrants and better utilization of human mobility.
Prof. Dr. Russel King of the University of Sussex was the keynote speaker of the conference and spoke on the topic: „Return migration and development: theoretical perspectives and insights from the Albanian experience“. Two plenary sessions and eleven panels were held, with three to four panellists in each session and dozens of audience members presented.
At the occasion of the conference, the first “Hristina Cipusheva Best Paper Award” was awarded to Tena Prelec from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences for her paper on voting behaviour of Serbian Diaspora.
CDESS, WB-Mignet and International Burch University, as cooperating organizers are proud to say that they have hosted a number of distinguished professors and scholars from the region and the EU. They also want to express their sincere appreciation to the donors: Central European Initiative, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and BiH Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees, for their support and belief in our success.
