Migration and Multiple Mobilities in Southeastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

This panel looks at migration and multiple mobilities in Southeast Europe during the last two centuries, with a focus on the following historical actors: (economic) migrants, political refugees, diplomats and itinerant intellectuals. This panel covers a wide range of migrants who spread from the Balkans to Anatolia and their multiple trajectories in the (post-)Ottoman space. The presenters will delve into examples and case studies that are overlooked by official historiographies of the Balkan states and take into consideration both bottom-up and top-down perspectives. Due to nationalist policies in the last decades, the multiple trajectories and identities of migrants and refugees were not welcomed in the official historiographies of the Balkan states, and for this reason, the understudied case studies will be given priority in order to deconstruct the ongoing nationalist (meta-)narratives that have been circulating in the official recent historiographies (often reinforced due to the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s).

Sub Unit

• History: 1900-1945

Chair

• Rory Archer, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Papers

• Seeking a Homeland, Serving the Empire: Muslim Migrants from Montenegro and Their Integration within the Ottoman Bureaucracy (1870-1914) - Denis Dionysus Ljuljanovic, Technical U of Darmstadt (Germany)

• Small-State Pariah: Retracing Albanian Intellectuals’ Efforts toward Pan-Balkan Integration - Suzana Vuljevic, DePaul U

• Migration as Nation-Building: Yugoslav Migration to Turkey Between World Wars - Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, Rutgers, The State U of New Jersey

Discussant

• Rory Archer, U of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Session Manager

• Jelena Dureinovic, U of Vienna (Austria)