Postdokprojekt

From Displacement to Integration: The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants in the Balkans (1945-2010)
Members: Luka Miladinović
Period: 2024-2026 
Funding: CERGU

The research aims to explore the economic consequences of forced migrations in the Balkans, focusing on two significant waves of displacement. By analyzing the displacement of Italians from Yugoslavian territories in the aftermath of World War II and the forced migration of Serbs from Kosovo in 1999, this study seeks to provide valuable insights into the economic integration of forced migrants and the impact on labor markets in both the regions of origin and destination. Utilizing newly acquired archival material and microdata, econometric analysis will be employed to assess various outcomes, including occupational status, earnings, and employment rates. The findings will contribute to the understanding of the socioeconomic implications of compelled migrations, offer comparisons to existing literature, and provide historical and contemporary insights applicable to various disciplines within European studies.

Ursäkternas tidsålder: samtida omvärderingar av europeisk kolonialism
Members: Louise Schou Therkildsen
Period: 2023-2025 
Funding: CERGU

Projektet undersöker postkoloniala försoningsprocesser i Europa, inriktat främst på den statliga nivån – officiella ursäkter och det bredare sammanhanget av utredningar och sanningskommissioner. Jag kommer att fokusera på bland annat Nordens roll i ett europeiskt sammanhang och de olika diskursiva ramar och normer som styr de olika försoningsprocesserna samt de ceremoniella, rituella formernas betydelse i en försoningskontext.

The Impact of Shoah on European-Jewish Business Networks and Cultural Mobility
Members: Maja Hultman
Period: 2021-2024 (part-time)
Funding: CERGU

Retracing the transnational movements of two Swedish-Jewish business families, and their subsequent migration of cultural ideas between diasporas and across national borders, the project The Impact of the Shoah on European-Jewish Business Networks and Cultural Mobility examines the function, disappearance and/or change of Jewish cultural centres in Europe, influencing Swedish-Jewish life, from the 1910s to the 1970s. It studies the period before, during, and after the Shoah , and thus examines the impact of Christendomʹs antisemitism –annihilating six million Jewish souls and European-Jewish cultural centres in the 1940s – on Jewish belonging to Europe. With an interdisciplinary approach – using business history, cultural studies, comparative studies, and gender studies – the project shows how firstly, European Jews used transnational structures to collaborate on cultural developments, and secondly, discriminating jurisdiction against an ethnic minority within one European nation potentially informs the ethnic group’s cultural practices in other parts of Europe.