FWF Project at CSEES: ‘To the Northwest! Intra-Yugoslav Albanian migration (1953-1989)’
CSEES is pleased to announce the launch of a new research project “To the Northwest! Intra-Yugoslav Albanian migration (1953-1989)” supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) P 32345) and led by Rory Archer. The project will begin in April 2020 for a duration of three years.
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The first research objective of the research is to provide a historical survey to show how the migration of Yugoslav Albanians to Croatia and Slovenia was facilitated and understood by the authorities. The second objective explores how the local communities in Croatia and Slovenia understood and managed the migration. Most importantly, the third objective explores how migration was understood by the Albanian migrants themselves. The fourth and final objective is to compare intra-Yugoslav Albanian migration to the better-documentedsocialist-era Yugoslav migration to capitalist Western Europe as well as Yugoslav rural-to-urban migration trends. Methodologically, the research relies on the analysis of library and archival documents and extensive oral history interviews. Oral history will be undertaken by the project researchers in two case study sites of Albanian migration –in Pula, northwest Croatia, and in an industrial town in Slovenia (e.g. Titovo Velenje)
Further information on the project.