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.
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.
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
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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.