Project Title: MigrationMedia(tor)

Project Aims & Objectives:

Migration Media(tor) project seeks to understand how media today shape the perception of migration among youth and emphasizes educational activities, particularly for young people, teachers, and media personnel.
The project will place great emphasis on and will be resulted in:
– Raising awareness on migration phenomena, human rights and multiculturalism,
– Analyze the impact of the media on perception of migration,
– Empowering migrants and help make their voiced heard.

Scholars/Institutions: University Jagiellonksi from Krakow (Poland) and three partners: Center for Cultural Dialogue from Zagreb (Croatia), MuzeumEmigracji from Gdynia (Poland) and Pro Humanum from Warszawa (Poland)

Countries Involved: Croatia, Poland

Start Date: April 1, 2024

End Date: 03/31/2026

Research Methods: Comparative research conducted in Poland and Croatia on the impact of the media on perceptions of migration (quantitative and qualitative research – 15000 respondents), expert group meetings, publications, international conference, open lectures;Workshops on migration, human rights and multiculturalism to dispel myths and stereotypes about the indicated phenomena, workshops and training for immigrants initiatives undertaken by them,Summer school on media and migration Centre for Cultural of Dialogue, as the Croatian partner institution, is responsible for: - Monitoring and evaluating narratives on migration in Croatia – quantitative research (500 respondents)- Conducting an in-depth analysis of media narratives on migration in Croatia – qualitative research (30 in-depth interviews),- Migration and education: empowering people on the move – Croatian edition (20 workshops: 10 workshops for local youth, 20 workshops for people on the move). Educational materials for workshops are created based on the results of the qualitative and quantitative research.- Summer school (days in Croatia)

Findings/Outcomes:

The project is in early phase
On November 29, 2024, the Jagiellonian University, the lead institution in the Migration Mediator project, hosted the inaugural event of a new cycle of meetings titled Migration & Media, designed for high school students across Poland. The event welcomed 39 students and 3 teachers, marking the beginning of an educational journey to explore the intersections of migration, media, and public perception.
Also, qualitative research based on 30 individual in-depth interviews with young adults was conducted between July and November 2024 in Croatia and Poland, but results are not yet publicly available.
Several activities are planned: publications, workshops, presentation at conferences, summer schools, training, open lectures, media resources

Project Webpage: https://migrationmediator.project.uj.edu.pl/overview

Funding Institution: European Commission (EC) and the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) programme

Keywords: Migration, media, public perception, stereotypes, awareness

Country of Publication:

• Croatia

Project Title: The European Irregularized Migration Regime at the Periphery of the EU

Project Aims & Objectives:

ERIM is focused on the documentation and analysis the regime of irregularized migration in the transnational space that includes Croatia and the surrounding countries and is shaped by migratory movements. Based on multilocal ethnographic fieldwork (observation, participation, interviews and other methods), the ERIM project aims to encompass the levels and experiences of different actors, from refugees and migrants, to members of local communities, and employees and representatives of local authorities, international and other organizations.

Scholars/Institutions: Marijana Hamersak, The Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research

Countries Involved: Serbia Slovenia

Start Date: February 1, 2020

End Date: June 30, 2024

Research Methods: Based on multilocal ethnographic fieldwork (observation, participation, interviews and other methods), the ERIM project aims to encompass the levels and experiences of different actors, from refugees and migrants, to members of local communities, and employees and representatives of local authorities, international and other organizations.ethnographic field work, discourse analysis

Findings/Outcomes:

Hameršak, Marijana, Iva Pleše i Tea Škokić, ur. 2024. Balkanska ruta. Pojmovnik europskog režima iregulariziranih migracija na periferiji EU. Zagreb: Sandorf.

e-erim: an online network of keywords of the European irregularized migration regime at the periphery of the EU https://e-erim.ief.hr/?locale=en

Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies, 2020, 5/1, Frontier Within: The European Border Regime in the Balkans, ur. Barbara Beznec, Andrej Kurnik, Marijana Hameršak, Sabine Hess, Marc Speer i Marta Stojić Mitrović
Hameršak, Marijana & Marta Stojić Mitrović. 2023. “COVID-19 Responses and the European Border Regime in Croatia and Serbia. Spectacularizing Borders and Sovereignties“. Studia Środkowoeuropejskie i Bałkanistyczne 32: 201-226.
Hameršak, Marijana. 2023. “Refugee Literatures, Documents and Fakes: Kristian Novak’s Gypsy, but the Fairest of them All“. In den Rändern der Literatur: Dokument und Literatur in zentraleuropäischen Kulturen – Tracing the Edges of Literature: Documentary Fiction in Central European Cultures. Milka Car, Csongor Lörincz, Danijela Lugarić & Gábor Tamás Molnár, ur. Wien: Böhlau, 97-114.
Lipovec Čebron, Uršula & Juš Škraban. 2022. “Intercultural Mediation and its Conflicting Allegiances in Slovenia”. Ethnologia Europaea 52/2: 1–23.
Czerny, Sarah, Marijana Hameršak, Iva Pleše & Sanja Bojanić. 2022. „Can the Forests be Xenophobic? Migrant Pathways through Croatia and the Forest as a Cover“. U Sentient Ecologies. Xenophobic Imaginaries of Landscape. Alexandra Coțofană & Hikmet Kuran, ur. New York & Oxford: Berghahn Books, 211-228.
Hameršak, Marijana. 2022. „‘Er setzte sich auf einen Sthuhl und erklärte’. Textuelle Antworten von unten auf Pushbacks as EUropas Rändern“. U Von Moria bis Hanau – Brutalisierung und Widerstand: Grenzregime IV. Valeria Hänsel, Karl Heyer, Matthias Schmidt-Sembdner & Nina V. Schwarz, ur. Berlin – Hamburg: Assoziation A, 123-141. (djelomično = Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics (2021) 7/2: 49-72)
Hameršak, Marijana & Iva Pleše. 2022. “Passing by In/Visibly. The Lone Child in the Croatian Section of the Balkan Refugee Corridor”. U Children, Young People and Borders A Multidisciplinary Outlook. Machteld Venken, Virpi Kaisto & Chiara Brambilla ur. Oxon-New York: Routledge, 70-88. (= Journal of Borderlands Studies (2021)6/2: 219-237)
Hameršak, Marijana. 2021. “Between Supporting and Reporting. Grassroots Textual Responses to the Pushbacks at the Fringes of EU“. Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics 7/2: 49-72.
Hameršak, Marijana & Iva Pleše. 2021. „Forest, forest, forest. Sometimes we Sleep. Walking, Sleep, Walking, Sleep. It’s Dangerous on this Way. Weaponized Migration Landscapes at the Outskirts of the European Union“. Etnološka tribina
Jovanović, Teodora. 2021. “Forced (Im)Mobilities En Route. ‘Justified’ Violence of the Border Regime in Balkans“. Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU 69/2: 433-455.
Zorn, Jelka. 2021. “The Case of Ahmad Shamieh’s Campaign against Dublin Deportation. Embodiment of Political Violence and Community Care“. Social Sciences 10/5.
Hameršak, Marijana, Sabine Hess, Marc Speer & Marta Stojić Mitrović. 2020. “The Forging of the Balkan Route: Contextualizing the Border Regime in the EU Periphery“. movements: Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies 5/1: 9-29.
Stojić Mitrović, Marta. 2020. “Izbeglice (Refugees), azilanti (Asylum Seekers) and ilegalni migranti (Illegal Migrants) in Administrative and Public Discourse in Serbia: An Overview of Concepts in a Diachronic Perspective“. Narodna

Project Webpage: https://erim.ief.hr/en

Funding Institution: The Croatian Science Foundation (IP 2019-04-6642)

Country of Publication:

• Croatia