Migration challenges, local policies and civic participation
Migration challenges, local policies and civic participation

Author(s): Jana Babić, Siniša Volarević
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Grupa 484
Keywords: Civic Participation; Local Migration Policies; Focus Group Research; Social Inclusion of Migrants; Western Balkans Route
Summary/Abstract: The project Civic participation in the development of local policies within the contextof migrant influx – cases of four local communities was implemented by Group 484with the financial support of the Open Society Foundation Serbia. The main partof the project was the research carried out in the areas of four Vojvodina local selfgovernments – Šid, Sombor, Subotica and Ada. Most of the field research activitieswere conducted in the area of three local self-governments which – in different waysand in different scopes – have faced significant migration challenges related to thecontinuous movement of migrants and refugees along the Western Balkans route. Onthe other hand, only a small part of the research was conducted in Ada municipality,which did not experience such challenges in this period. The research was conductedin Šid municipality in March while in Sombor, Subotica and Ada in June 2018.

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