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Aida Ibricevic

Postdoc

I am a political scientist and migration researcher at REMESO. I analyze return and readmission policies and develop alternatives. My research includes return migration, citizenship, political emotions, diaspora and transnationalism.

I am a political scientist and migration researcher, with an interdisciplinary academic background in economics and journalism. The main questions driving my research are related to why people migrate; how migration affects individuals, families, societies and economies; and how states formulate policies to facilitate or impede human mobility.

Research

My first book Decided Return Migration: Emotions, Citizenship, Home and Belonging in Bosnia and Herzegovina is published open access by Springer as part of the IMISCOE Research Series. You can find out more about the book here.

At REMESO, I am employed as a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Linköping University team led by Professor Zoran Slavnic, as part of the HORIZON EUROPE MORE Project: “Motivations, experiences, and consequences of returns and readmission policy: revealing and developing effective alternatives.” If interested, you can read my blogpost about our work on the MORE Project. I am also affiliated as a Global Fellow with the PRIO (Peace Research Institute Oslo) Migration Center.

My current research and project development interests:

  • Return migration (including returns of retirement)
  • Citizenship, home and belonging
  • Political emotions
  • External voting
  • Emigration of health workers
  • Transnational returns in the ICT industry
  • Women in the diaspora

About me

Education and languages 

My academic credentials include a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Middlebury College in the United States, a Master of Arts in Economics from Central European University (CEU) in Hungary, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Istanbul Bilgi University in Turkey. 

Currently, I am actively learning Swedish, and so far, I have developed skills in these languages: Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (native), Turkish and French (upper-intermediate) and Italian (intermediate).

Blogging

I get to use my journalism training from École supérieure de journalisme in Lille, France-(ESJ Lille) and the Mediaplan Institute in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina by working on BiH Diaspora Discussions. This is a blogging space devoted to contextualizing contemporary academic and policy debates within the realities of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian diaspora.

CV and personal website 

Click here for a complete version of my CV.

Personal website: https://aidaibricevic.com

Publications

2025

Aida Ibricevic (2025) Sustainability of decided return migration: The case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Aida Ibricevic (2025) Decided Return Migration: Emotions, Citizenship, Home and Belonging in Bosnia and Herzegovina

2024

Aida Ibricevic (2024) Returns of retirement: The Gastarbeiter reflect on working abroad to retire at home
Aida Ibricevic (2024) Decided Return Migration: Emotions, Citizenship, Home and Belonging in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Aida Ibricevic (2024) de Haas, Hein (2023) How Migration Really Works: A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics. London: Penguin. 464 pp. ISBN 978-0-241-63220-8 Journal of Peace Research (Article, book review)

2023

Aida Ibricevic, Senada Zatagic (2023) The diaspora vote in Bosnia and Herzegovina: caught between efforts to reverse the political effects of ethnic cleansing and voter suppression through procedural disenfranchisement Bosnian Studies: Perspectives from an Emergent Field, p. 173-204 (Chapter in book)

2022

Aida Ibricevic (2022) Diasporic knowledge transfer in Bosnia and Herzegovina

2020

Clara Schmitz-Pranghe, Nermin Oruč, Katja Mielke, Aida Ibricevic (2020) Making sure that the emigration of health-care personnel from Albania and BiH works for all: What Germany can do: BICC Policy Brief

2019

Aida Ibricevic (2019) Facing Fear and Responding with Courage: Understanding How Fear Constitutes the "Emotional Citizenship" of Voluntary Returnees to Bosnia and Herzegovina Migracijske i Etniĉke Teme, Vol. 35, p. 171-193 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

Teaching

My twelve years of undergraduate teaching have included designing, leading and conducting courses in academic writing and research methods. The courses I teach aim at developing the academic skills students need to succeed in a scholarly environment, including: critical thinking, text analysis, library work, research design, data collection, citation and referencing, conventions of academic writing – essay structure, coherence and cohesion, oral presentation, debate and reflection/peer evaluation. I am experienced in course design, curriculum mapping, as well as the production of teaching and assessment materials aligned with ECTS outcomes and objectives.

Organisations