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Project
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Name: Remigrations and transformations in post-socialist European regions 
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Project status: From: 2013-01-01 To: 2014-09-30 (Completed)
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Type (Programme): Ostali 
Instrument: Ostalo 
Project cost: 56.020,00 EUR
Project funding: 50.000,00 EUR
Project coordinator
Organisation Name: Institut of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar 
Organisation adress: Marulićev trg 19, Zagreb 
Organisation country: Croatia 
Contact person name: Caroline Hornstein Tomić 
Contact person email: Email 
Croatian partner
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Organisation address: Marulićev trg 19, Zagreb 
Contact person name: Vlado Šakić
Contact person tel:
+385 1 4886 800  Contact person fax: +385 1 4886 800 
Contact person e-mail: Email 
Partners
Organisation nameCountry
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Department for Film-, Theatre- and Cultural Studies  Germany 
Karl-Franzens University Graz, Centre for Southeast European History and Anthropology Austria 
Short description of project
  The project establishes a discursive platform about remigration and its impact on the transition process in post-socialist European regions. Integration and participation, institution building, intercultural and knowledge transfers, identity negotiations and remembrance politics are topics looked at in cross-national and interdisciplinary perspective by linking experiential accounts, empirical case studies, interdisciplinary research, Diaspora outreach policies, as well as artistic representations of (re-) migrant mobility and transition. At a workshop in 9/2013 perspectives from different transformation contexts will be comparatively discussed. Findings will subsequently be synthesized in panels (online/meetings), and publication (ERSTE Foundation Series/LIT Verlag) promoted in fall 2014. The Project will be lead jointly by Doc. Dr. Caroline Hornstein Tomic (Zagreb), Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sarah Scholl Schneider (Mainz), and Mag. Dr. Robert Pichler (Graz).     The crucial and/or potential contribution – embraced and/or impeded - of return migrants to socio-cultural transformation, economic and political development in post-socialist European regions will be systematically addressed through interdisciplinary discussion, cross-national comparison, and from the perspectives of actors. Through publication and public presentation of findings, the project will add a new facet to post-socialist transformation studies and to the understanding of transformation processes after system change. By communicating results to a scholarly audience, and also to stakeholders in politics, public administration, NGOs and agencies dealing with migration, mobility and development, and EU integration processes of former socialist Europe, the research seeks to contribute to understanding the sustainability of Diaspora outreach programs in particular, and to evaluating the scope and contents of migration, diversity and integration policies in general.  
Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner
  Doc. Dr. (phil.) Caroline Hornstein Tomic is Assistant Professor for Social and Cultural Anthropology (Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences/Zagreb University), and Research Associate at Ivo Pilar Institute. She will be in charge for project management and will jointly with partners in Mainz and Graz determine the contents, supervise the process and proceedings of the project. She will coordinate between project finance administration and webmaster in Pilar Institute, the partners in Mainz and Graz, and at ERSTE Foundation.      


   

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