Scientific Conference ’Contemporary Minorities Migrations from Serbia’

Organised by the SASA Board for the Study of National Minorities and Human Rights, the scientific conference ’Contemporary Minorities Migrations from Serbia’ took place on 26 September, at the SASA Grand Hall.

The wide scope of transnational social mobility among minority members on the one hand, and the dramatic demographic decline in the number of minority communities in the Republic of Serbia on the other, call for a deeper examination of contemporary minority migrations. Research carried out in destination countries has rarely focused on the migrants’ places of origin, and there is even less comprehensive research on the transnational social mobility among minorities in their home countries. Although there are individual studies addressing the migration of some minorities, such as the Roma, Slovaks, Romanians, or the Vlachs, a comprehensive overview of the existing minority migratory patterns is scarce. The event is planned to bring together researchers of various profiles (demographers, political science experts, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, historians and philologists) who will shed light on the migratory tendencies of the members of the most populous national minorities at least ((Hungarians, Bosniaks, Roma, Albanians, Slovaks, Croats, Romanians, Vlachs, Bulgarians and others).

The conference encompassed discussions on migration phenomena related to religious, linguistic, gender, and other identity groups.