🎉 Deutschlandpremiere am IOS 📕 Am 7.11., 16 Uhr, stellen @tschinderle.bsky.social und @krstorevic.bsky.social ihr neues Buch "Westbalkan – Im Wartezimmer der EU" vor (mit @danijelmajic.bsky.social geschrieben). Zuhören & mitdiskutieren – bei uns oder online. 🔗 Mehr: leibniz-ios.de/veranstaltun...

We are seeking a PhD candidate with an interest in East–West European relations (1970s–1990s) to work with me and Aline Sierp. The deadline for submitting proposals is 28 September. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

A similar opinion piece today in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#SaveTheDate: The program of our 12th Annual Conference on "Continuity & Change in the Economic Trajectories of Central, East and South-East Europe in the Long 20th Century" is out now. With keynotes by Tamás Vonyó and János Mátyás Kovács. 📆 26–27 June 2025 | #Regensburg ⬇️

Today, at the Symposion of the Scientific Advisory Board of sogde.org, @juznaslavenka.bsky.social, member of our TraFFF project, presented research on remittance factories in former Yugoslavia

You can watch this powerful (and Oscar-nominated) short for free. When I watched it, I had a horrible feeling of it being particularly relevant today.

How did migrant workers' remittances contribute to Yugoslavia's industrialization? @juznaslavenka.bsky.social (#LeibnizIOS) examines in Migration and Development how the #Gastarbeiter shaped local development, using the "Tigar" tire factory (Pirot) as a case study. 🔽

Just published my new article in journal "Migration and Development" on Gastarbeiter investments in the "Tigar" factory in Pirot! 🚀 journals.sagepub.com/eprint/P6CXB...

Did you know that there is a #Mercedes town in Croatia? 🚗The background story you can read in the essay I wrote for #seeffield (A small but fertile field: Strengthening Southeast European Studies in Regensburg) seeffield.app.uni-regensburg.de/croatias-mer...

I am happy to share that my paper "Factories Built on the Deutsche Mark. Yugoslav Gastarbeiter Investments in Creating Jobs in the Homeland" is part of a special edition by Südosteuropa-Jahrbuch entitled "Return Migration and its Consequences in Southeast Europe" 🤓 www.peterlang.com/document/144...

"'The #Gastarbeiter|s Built Everything for Us.' #Migration|s, Memories, and Emptiness in the #Dalmatia|n Hinterland" New essay by #LeibnizIOS director Ulf Brunnbauer and @juznaslavenka.bsky.social in Contemporary Southeastern Europe. In #OpenAccess ➡️ contemporarysee.org/the-gastarbe...

Kann Abwanderung auch positive Impulse für die Wirtschaft der Herkunftsländer haben? Diese für #Südosteuropa bis heute enorm wichtige Frage diskutieren #LeibnizIOS -Direktor Ulf Brunnbauer und @juznaslavenka.bsky.social am Beispiel des sozialistischen #Jugoslawien im @derstandardat.bsky.social. ⬇️

My dear blue ☁️ community, if you know some young scholars who are dealing with history of migration and development processes in Latin and South America, North Africa and Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey - please let me know about them! I'm working on an exciting panel 🤩

#CFP IOS Annual Conference!

Remittances from YU-Gastarbeiters in Western Europe played an important role in Yugoslavia's economic development, argues @leibniz-ios.de research associate @juznaslavenka.bsky.social. More on this by Milica Stojanović (former IOS fellow) for Balkan Insight. balkaninsight.com/2023/11/29/h...