Aida Ibričević is a political scientist and migration researcher with an interdisciplinary academic background in economics and journalism. She is currently employed as a Postdoctoral Researcher at REMESO, Linköping University, Sweden as part of the Horizon Europe MORE Project: “Motivations, experiences, and consequences of returns and readmission policy: revealing and developing effective alternatives.” Previously, she has contributed to the Bonn International Center for Conflict Studies (BICC) project Trajectories of reintegration: The impacts of forced displacement, migration and return on social change as a Senior Research Associate. Ibričević has provided research consulting services for international organizations such as the IOM, UNDP, SIDA and ODI. Please click here for a complete version of Ibričević’s CV.

Research

Her first book Decided Return Migration: Emotions, Citizenship, Home and Belonging in Bosnia and Herzegovina is published open access by Springer as part of the IMISCOE Research Series. You can find out more about the book here.

Education

Ibričević has a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Middlebury College, United States, and an economics Master of Arts from Central European University, Hungary. Her doctoral degree is in political science from Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.

Blogging

Aida gets to use her journalism training from École supérieure de journalisme in Lille, France (ESJ Lille) and the Mediaplan Institute in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina by working on her “BiH Diaspora Discussions.” This is a blogging space devoted to contextualizing contemporary academic and policy debates within the realities of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian diaspora.

Languages

Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (Native), Turkish (Upper intermediate), French (Upper Intermediate), Italian (Intermediate) and Swedish (Elementary).