Dissemination event - Transnational solidarities in the Balkans: Migration Justice Worldmaking
2023-06-19 14:30 - 17:00 UTC | Roda, Zagreb, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
The dissemination & policy event, organized by Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa, in cooperation with the Institute for Development and International Relations, aims at disseminating the research findings of the Jean Monnet TraPoCO Network beyond its core partners, targeting think tanks, NGO practitioners, as well as local civil society organizations, policy-makers and other interested stakeholders.
It will in particular focus on the Western Balkans migratory route, which has been largely crossed since the 2015 long summer of migration by people on the move striving to access the territory of the European Union to lodge an asylum claim. In this context, Croatia, the most recent member to join the EU in 2013, has played a pivotal role in containing the passage of migrants also by means of violence, as denounced by Amnesty International, amongst others.
Today’s meeting will delve into the role of transnational solidarity groups, whose support activities continued also during the pandemic, although being restricted by the measures enforced, in the country and at the border between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, where migrants are still trapped at the external borders of the EU. Besides presenting the findings of a research conducted in the aftermath of the pandemic amongst grassroots solidarity groups, the meeting will benefit from the intervention of well-known activists for human rights engaged in the country to support people on the move and active in denouncing the violation of human rights at the borders of the EU. The activists will also present an update about the situation of people on the move still traversing the Western Balkans migratory route. Moreover, the results of the research dealing with the opportunities and limitations offered by the European space to civil society organizations will further the debate concerning the context in which civil society actors are embedded.

European policy event - Transnational Political Contention and the protection of rights and democracy in Europe
2023-06-07 09:00 - 13:00 | Maastricht University, Brussels, Belgium
The concluding event of the Jean Monnet Network “Transnational Political Contention and the protection of rights and democracy in Europe” will take place in Brussels, on June 7, 2023

Transnational political dynamics are growing: some question the EU liberal order, while others contribute to strengthening democratic guarantees at the European and domestic level as well in candidate countries. The TraPoCo (Transnational Political Contention in Europe) Jean Monnet network contributed to developing a field of research that looks at the interaction of practices and processes that cross the borders of nation-states and have an impact on the functioning of democracy inside and outside the Union.
TraPoCo scholars focused on the advancement of research on the practices of mobilisation and protest of actors such as social movements, activists, civil society organisations, trade unions, etc. in transnational political arenas on issues relating to European integration. In particular, TraPoCo looked at how, in what forms, and under what conditions the societal actors that work for the enlargement of the space of fundamental rights benefit from transnational political spaces at EU level and, in turn, contribute to European integration in some form and reinvigorate democracy in the EU and its Member States.
This event will be an opportunity for TraPoCo partners to share their most cutting-edge research outcomes with civil society and policy-makers, with a focus on policy implications at the EU level.

Conference - Contesting borders
2023-05-30 10:30 - 17:30 | Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
This workshop aims at bridging together critical border studies with migration studies and social movement studies, as those fields have been rarely put into dialogue. To that end, it investigates the notion of border and its interaction with collective and individual solidarity initiatives, exploring these from a theoretical and empirical perspective.
In the morning session, three prominent scholars in the field of critical border studies, crimmigration and migration and security studies discuss borders intended as spaces of contention and not only as territorial boundaries between states or state-like political entities. In doing so, they investigate those solidarity activities that take place at the borders in the European and US areas to support people on the move attempting to cross them, also reflecting from such perspective on smuggling activities and on their criminalization.
In the afternoon session, we bring the discussion to a policy and operational level, hosting a roundtable with representatives from solidarity groups and networks operating at the French-Italian border, along the Western Balkan route and in the Mediterranean sea. They engage in a debate on how they conceive of their activities (as political, contentious, humanitarian?) and the connected implications.
More info at: https://www.sns.it/it/evento/contesting-borders

Guest lecture: Mobilizing at the Periphery of Europe: Social Movements in the Western Balkans
2019-04-17 16:30 - 18:00
Trento
Università di Sociologia, via Verdi, 26,aula 15, II piano
17 Aprile 2019 16:00 – 17 Aprile 2019 18:00
Organizza: Centro Europeo di Eccellenza Jean Monnet
Categoria: Seminario

Incontro nell’ambito della progetto EUWeBER “The European Union and the Western Balkans: Enlargement and Resilience”, promosso dal Centro di eccellenza Jean Monnet dell’Università di Trento in collaborazione con OBC Transeuropa

Il seminario si inserisce nel progetto “EUWeBER ” che mira ad offrire agli studenti universitari una migliore conoscenza delle questioni di politica estera europea in particolare in rapporto ai paesi del sud-est Europa e del Partenariato orientale. Prevede seminari interattivi in alula e trasmessi online per un pubblico più vasto, opportunità di tirocinio presso Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT) e un blog realizzato dagli studenti.
Il progetto è promosso dal Centro di eccellenza Jean Monnet dell’Università di Trento in collaborazione con OBC Transeuropa, unità operativa del CCI e gode del sostegno dell’Unione europea.
Interventi:

Introduce: Roberto Belloni, Università di Trento
Relatrice: Chiara Milan, Università di Graz

Per ulteriori riformazioni Università di Trento

IPSA colloquium: Democratization and Constitutional Design in Divided Societies
2017-06-24 08:00 - 17:00 | University of Cyprus , Nicosia Campus, Cyprus
I will present my paper “Mobilizing beyond ethnicity in divided societies: the case of social mobilizations in Bosnia Herzegovina” in the panel entitled “Non-Ethnic Political Identity and Mobilisation in Power-Sharing Frameworks” in the framework of the 2017 IPSA colloquium hosted at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia Campus

"Us vs. Them: Populism, the Refugee Other and the Re-consideration of National Identity in Central and Eastern Europe"
2017-05-29 | Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
I will present a paper entitled “Refugees like us: Solidarity in transition along the Western Balkans route”
at the conference hosted by the Center for European Neighborhood Studies (CENS) and organized by the Central European University and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Budapest

2nd Annual Conference of the Western Balkans Migration Network “Migration in the Western Balkans: What do we know?”
2017-05-19 08:00 - 2017-05-20 17:00 | International Burch University, Sarajevo, Bosnia And Herzegowina
I will be in Sarajevo to present the paper “Refugees and forced migrants in the Western Balkans: Civic response to the refugee crisis in the Yugoslav successor states”
in the framework of the Second Annual Conference of the Western Balkans Migration Network hosted at the International Burch University of Sarajevo, in collaboration with the Central European Initiative (CEI)
