Research focus: former Yugoslavia

With their many different transit routes, the states of former Yugoslavia are considered a gateway to the European Union. For a number of years now, it has been possible to observe the implementation of a migration regime promoted by the EU, but also by the United States. Indeed, it is possible to analyze how NGOs and international organizations, such as the IOM or the UNHCR, but also the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe, are working on future migration policies at the same time as they design scenarios for regulating migration in this region. All of this is progressing at varying rates in each different country, and though the organizations involved frequently work together, their goals are often quite different.

As a multifaceted field of investigation, research on migration in this context encompasses a variety of issues, including emigration from this region, the refugees of civil war (so-called "internally displaced persons"), mass deportations from EU member countries, and transit migration. Starting with their analysis of the strategies and survival techniques used by migrants who stay in these countries on their way to the European Union or the United States, Rutvica Andrijasevic and Manuela Bojadzijev investigate the continuing implementation of a migration regime.