Srboljub D. Peović, MA, research assistant, is the author of a chapter in the international edited volume Mexico–US, Serbia–EU Border Lives and Works entitled Who Could Predict What Kinds of Nations Will Migrate and Where, in a Hundred Years: A Century of Migration Management in Serbia (1918–2023). The chapter is dedicated to examining the history of attempts to manage migration in the territory of present-day Serbia between 1918 and 2023, as well as the internal and external influences on the responses of different political regimes during this period.
The volume itself, which brought together 20 researchers, scholars, and activists from different countries, consists of 17 contributions divided into four thematic sections: the theory and history of border management; methodology and ethics of work at borders; the (re)creation of borders; and life at borders and in border regions. The editors, as leaders and researchers of the Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University, organized the volume as a collection of diverse approaches—from qualitative research to cultural and textual analysis, and from artistic installations to interviews—seeking through a multidisciplinary perspective to move beyond established approaches in traditional border studies.
