Multiethnicity, multiculturalism, migrations - contemporary processes

Multiethnicity and migrations, together with multiculturalism as one of »identity policies«, are strikingly important problems of contemporary world at the global level. Social organization of multiethnicities, multicultural policy, migrations which contribute ethnic and cultural non-homogeneity, pose, above else, the questions of belonging / not-belonging, collective and individual rights and collective and individual identities. Both in Serbia and in the surrounding region, these questions have certain specific variations depending on their social-cultural context. The project will deal with these issues from the perspective of social and cultural anthropology, meaning that it will focus on cultural processes, primarily the processes of identity construction, everyday culture and lifestyle as well as the individual experiencing of these complex processes. The aim of the project is to monitor various meanings and functions of (multi)ethnicity and migrations in post-socialism, i.e. in the time of transition, globalization and Euro-integration, first of all at the level of Serbian society. The focus of research in no way excludes other questions which enable comparisons and parallels within the region, nor the question of the diaspora – particularly the wave of emigration from Serbia / Yugoslavia during the 1990s, nor, in final instance, observation of ethnicity and migrations in the global context.