The Serbian paradox: negative attitudes and migration aspirations towards the West

STANOJEVIĆ, Mirjana. The Serbian paradox: negative attitudes and migration aspirations towards the West. In The Migration Conference 2022 Rabat. 2022.

Basic information

• Original name: The Serbian paradox: negative attitudes and migration aspirations towards the West
• Name in Czech: Srbský paradox: negativní postoje a migrační aspirace k Západu
• Name (in English): The Serbian paradox: negative attitudes and migration aspirations towards the West
• Authors: STANOJEVIĆ, Mirjana.
• Edition: The Migration Conference 2022 Rabat, 2022.

Other information

• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Keywords (in Czech): kultura migrace, geografické představy
• Keywords in English: culture of migration, geographical imagination
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

This contribution explores how negative attitudes and migration aspirations towards the West reproduce and strengthen in the context of mass economic emigration from the Pomoravlje region in Serbia. The Gastarbeiter, as pioneer migrants, created strong social capital and transnational ties in the imagined West. The region has many characteristics of the culture of migration that evolved around the guest workers’ experience. These phenomena enable the paradox to reproduce even in the current migratory flows. These phenomena can also be responsible for delayed future trajectories and reproduced permanent temporalities that were observed in the region.

Abstract (in Czech)

Tento příspěvek zkoumá, jak se negativní postoje a migrační aspirace vůči Západu reprodukují a posilují v kontextu masové ekonomické emigrace z regionu Pomoravlje v Srbsku. Gastarbeiteři si jako průkopničtí migranti vytvořili silný sociální kapitál a nadnárodní vazby na pomyslném Západě. Tento region má mnoho charakteristických rysů kultury migrace, která se vyvinula kolem zkušenosti gastarbeiterů. Tyto jevy umožňují reprodukci paradoxu i v současných migračních tocích. Tyto jevy mohou být také zodpovědné za zpožděné budoucí trajektorie a reprodukované trvalé temporality, které byly v regionu pozorovány.

Abstract (in English)

This contribution explores how negative attitudes and migration aspirations towards the West reproduce and strengthen in the context of mass economic emigration from the Pomoravlje region in Serbia. The Gastarbeiter, as pioneer migrants, created strong social capital and transnational ties in the imagined West. The region has many characteristics of the culture of migration that evolved around the guest workers’ experience. These phenomena enable the paradox to reproduce even in the current migratory flows. These phenomena can also be responsible for delayed future trajectories and reproduced permanent temporalities that were observed in the region.

Links

• MUNI/IGA/1259/2020, interní kód MU: Name: Mass economic emigration in the peripheral region of transitional Serbia and its influence on reshaping the youth imaginaries

Investor: Masaryk University