Amer Kurtović, Tarik Velić, and Amina Bahović, Social Sciences Research Center researchers, presented two papers at the 21st Annual Conference of the International Migration Research Network in Lisbon, Portugal.
The conference, titled “Migration as a Social Construction: A Reflexive Turn,” included over 300 panels with over 1,000 papers and as many participants from dozens of countries. Moreover, the conference explores migration as a social construction, its critical approach focuses on the social processes that determine the classification of mobile individuals and their descendants as migrants.
Kurtović presented research as a part of the panel Placing’ Return Migration: Intersectionalities of Gender, Age, Generation, and Class, Part 1, convened by Russel King of University of Sussex and Nilay Kilinc of University of Helsinki, foremost experts on migration studies, on the relationship between returnees’ imaginations of their homelands, the lived experiences they face upon return, and the identities they construct as a result of the difference. This research is expected to be published by Population, Space and Place.
Furthermore, Velić presented the preliminary results of research conducted with Kurtović and Bahović as a part of the Unis4EU project titled “Toward a Typology of Barriers to Student Participation in Erasmus Mobilities”, in which they identified academic, personal, and socio-economic barriers to Bosnian and Herzegovianian students’ participation in Erasmus+ mobilities. The dataset will be expanded to include a larger representative sample of students from other universities in the next several months.