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.

Interview with Bojana Babic

Current affiliation
  • Humboldt University of Berlin
Hosting institute
Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies
Contact
Key expertise
  • Migration and refugee studies
  • Urban anthropology
  • Economic anthropology

Profile according to FFVT taxonomy

Fields of research
  • Migration Research
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

Academic education / CV

PhD (Anthropology-Berlin)

M.A. (Migration and intercultural relations-Germany/Norway)

MA (Public Policy of Euromediteranean-Italy)

BA (Economics-Bosnia and Herzegovina)

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.

Interview

Q1. Who are you?

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

Q2. What was your motivation to apply for the FFVT fellowship? Why Germany?

The excellence of this program and the possibilities it can open through the connections, knowledge and expertise it provides in the field of forced migration and refugee studies prevailed in my application for the FFVT fellowship. Along this line, Germany has always been the first choice for my academic activities, including my second master's at Oldenburg University and PhD at Humboldt University. I believe that the German academic environment offers a unique freedom in doing research which fosters creativity and originality in one work.

Q3. What do you expect from the fellowship?

I expect to engage in various inspiring and fruitful conversations which will enrich my research and encourage further collaboration around a variety of issues within the area of forced migration and refugee studies. I’m especially interested in building networks and new collective actions within FFVT networks, including joint research proposals.

Q4. What is the focus of your work, and what is innovative about it? / What are your planned outcomes and activities for the fellowship period? And how do they relate to your FFVT hosting institution/ the FFVT cooperation project?

My work has always been focused on the ethnography of the everyday life of the displaced population in the urban context of several geographic areas, primarily Istanbul, Cairo and the cities of Bosnia, along with Serbia and Croatia. There I've been collecting new information about these particular forms of life with the hope that it could not only challenge the mainstream narratives about forced migrations but also contribute to new conversations of theorising the displaced population outside of already existing categories.

To start