In and Out of Refugee Crisis: Croatia 1990s vs. 2015/2016

You are cordially invited to Dr. Sandra Cvikić's lecture on "In and Out of Refugee Crisis: Croatia 1990s vs. 2015/2016." The lecture will take place on the 29th of March at 15:45, in the Çekmeköy Campus’ AB2 building, Room G12.

The lecture will be in English.

Summary

In this lecture Dr. Sandra Cvikić will present a study case, discussing forced migration/refugee issues related to two important instances – during the Croatian war of defense in the 1990s and the European refugee/migration crisis in 2015/2016. Two different socio-political contexts will be compared/contrasted against the background of international humanitarian responses to the refugee/migration crisis at different historical vantage points involving Croatian citizens and international refugees/migrants. The aim is to critically approach issues of contemporary forced migration and refugeedom, and to convey how today’s citizenship as a safety net of every citizen belonging to a nation state is dangerously compromised by unpredictable shifts in global power-relations that can almost instantaneously change the life of every single person in the world.

Dr. Sandra Cvikić

Sandra Cvikić is a Croatian sociologist. She holds a BA Degree from the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada (Double Major – English and Sociology); an MA Degree from the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK (Contemporary European Studies) as a Chevening Scholar, and a PhD Degree (Croatian Studies/Sociology) from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Croatian Studies. She is employed by the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Regional Centre Vukovar as a senior Research Associates. Currently she is conducting research at the Özyeğin University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of International Relations as a recipient of Turkish scholarship (TÜBİTAK, BIDEB, 2221-Fellowship Program for Visiting Scientists and Scientists on Sabbatical Leave, 2021/6) under supervision of Prof. dr.sc. Deniz Sert. Her academic interests include qualitative methodology (constructivist grounded theory methodology and critical discourse analysis/Foucauldian discourse analysis), postmodernist critical theory, sociology of knowledge, sociology of war, violence and trauma, totalitarianism, transitional justice, and contemporary refugee studies.