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Bojana Babic

Bojana Babic

Bojana comes from the spaces of Ex Yugoslavia. She is interested in the various issues around displacement ever since the Bosnia war. This interest brought her back to academia almost a decade ago and many education and research roads in different disciplines and countries. Bojana is particularly interested in continuing to inform her research inquiries within the economic and philosophical anthropology approach along with the multimodal ethnography of everyday life in urban environments.

Contact
Hosting institute
  • Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies
Current affiliation
  • Humboldt University of Berlin
Memberships
Key expertise
  • Migration and refugee studies
  • Urban anthropology
  • Economic anthropology
Regional expertise
  • The Balkans, Middle East, Mediterranean, Cairo, Istanbul, Palermo, Berlin, various cities of the former Yugoslavia

Profile according to FFVT taxonomy

Scientific topics
  • Causes Of Displacement
  • Gender
  • Borders
  • Identity
  • Infrastructure Of Flight / Forced Migration
  • Integration And Social Participation
  • International Protection
  • Local And Municipal Refugee Policies
  • Migration Routes, Refugees’ Journeys
  • National Refugee And Asylum Policies
  • Economy Of Forced Migration
  • Religion
  • Self-Organization
  • Transnational Networks
  • Reception, Accommodation And Housing
Disciplines
  • Civil Engineering / Architecture / Urban Studies
  • Anthropology
  • Cultural Studies / Literary Studies / Linguistics
  • Sociology
  • Philosophy And Religious Studies

Professional Career

Relevant publications

  • Efendic, A., Babic, B., Rebmann, A.Social capital, Migration, Ethnic diversity and Economic performance - Multidisciplinary evidence from South-East Europe.2017.Peter Lang AG.
  • Efendic, A., Babic, B., Rebmann, A.Diaspora and Development – Bosnia and Herzegovina.2015.Embassy of Switzerland in BiH.
  • Babic, B., co-edited with Ronald Kostic and Emina Cosic.Migration in the function of Development.2015.Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees.
  • Babic, B.The migration-development nexus in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Center for Local Development and Diaspora seen from below. In South East and Black Sea Studies, 13(2), 211-225.2013.Routledge.
  • Babic, B..South-South Migration: An overview, the Dictionary of International Migrations. The International Migration Observatory (Observatório das Migrações Internacionais – OBMigra), the University of Brasília (UnB), Brazil.