Prof. Ulf Brunnbauer z University of Regensburg gościem kolejnego "Piątku na Historycznym"

Dziekan Wydziału Historycznego dr hab. Arkadiusz Janicki, prof. UG oraz Prodziekan ds. Badań Naukowych i Współpracy Międzynarodowej dr hab. Anna Mazurkiewicz, prof. UG zapraszają serdecznie na kolejne spotkanie z cyklu „Piątek na Historycznym”. 

Już 7 czerwca 2024 r. o godz. 13.15 gościem na naszym Wydziale będzie Prof. Ulf Brunnbauer z University of Regensburg w Niemczech, który wygłosi wykład "Lessons from the Yugoslav Migration Experience: Inequality and Elusive Development". Spotkanie odbędzie się na Wydziale Historycznym, Wita Stwosza 55, w auli 1.48. 

In this talk, I plan to highlight the ambivalent consequences of labor migration from socialist Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was the only socialist country to legalize, and even facilitate the migration of workers to Wester countries on a massive scale. By 1971, almost a fifth of all Yugoslavs with a job worked abroad. However, migration presented the government with major, ultimately unsolvable challenges. Many initial hopes, such as of a significant development impact of migrant remittances and of return, turned out to be elusive. - zapowiada Prof. Ulf Brunnbauer - On the contrary, critical intellectuals and the migrants themselves formulated social critique with respect to migration and those inequalities that have produced it in the first place. Drawing on diverse sources (migrant letters, expert literature, archival evidence, newspapers, and films), I will show that migration became erosive for the legitimacy of self-managed socialism. I will argue that the Yugoslav example can help us to question prevailing paradigms of the migration-development nexus. Instead, we should reflect about the connection between migration and European inequalities.

Ulf Brunnbauer is a social historian, specialized on 19^th and 20^th century history of Southeastern Europe. He received a PhD in history from the University of Graz, Austria (1999), and a habilitation from the Free University of Berlin (2006). Since 2008, he has been Professor of Southeast and East European History at the University of Regensburg, Germany, where he also acts as the Academic Director of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies. His research revolves among questions of migration, labor, family, demography, and nation-building. His most recent book is the co-authored monograph In the Storms of Transformation. Two Shipyards from Socialism to the European Union (University of Toronto Press, 2024, forthcoming). He is also author of Globalizing Southeastern Europe. Emigrants, America and the State Since the Late 19^th Century (Lexington, 2016).