Curriculum Vitae of Dr. MAJA KORAC
Degrees
1998
Ph.D., Graduate Programme in Sociology, School
of Graduate Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada.
1990 M.A., Department of Sociology, University of
Belgrade, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1983 B.A., Department
of Sociology, University of Belgrade, Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia.
Recent
Employment
1999
Senior Researcher,
Refugee Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, University
to
date of Oxford, Great Britain.
Principal investigator
working on a comparative study about the experiences of integration of refugees
from former Yugoslavia in Italy and the Netherlands. A special emphasis of the
research is on the role of gender in the process of refugee settlement. The main objective of the research is to provide a
basis for the assessment of different integration policies in a comparative
way.
Co-investigator
researching on a project commissioned by the Home Office that aims to advance
the field of policy oriented research about integration in the UK by mapping
out the existing research on integration in the country and recommending future
policy oriented research in the field. Period: February-July 2001.
98-99 Research
Consultant, Centre for Feminist Research, York University, Toronto,
Canada.
Co-ordinator
of the Women in Conflict Zones Network Project (WICZNET project or the
Network). Responsibilities included: to co-organise workshops; to theorise and
write background papers to facilitate debate among the Network members; to
develop strategies to generate a constructive discussion which recognises a
difference among women as well as between regions and contexts.
96-97 Course
Director, Social Science Department, Atkinson College, York University,
Toronto, Canada.
Recent main publications
In press
. War, Flight, and Exile: Gendered Violence among Refugee Women from Post
Yugoslav States. . Gender and Violence: Women in Conflict Zones.
Wenona Giles
and Jennifer Hyndman (eds.). University of California Press.
Under
review . Policy context and cultural compatibility
as factors influencing refugee settlement:
a case study of refugees from the post Yugoslav
states in Rome. , Journal of
Refugee Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3.
Firth-
Coming .
Dilemmas of Integration: a case study of refugees from the post Yugoslav
states in
Rome.
Refugee Studies and Politics: Human Dimensions and research Perspectives,
Susanne
Binder and Jelena Tosic (eds.) Vienna University Press, Spring 2002.
2001
. Cross-ethnic networks, self-reception system,
and functional integration of refugees
from former
Yugoslavia in Rome, Italy. ,
Journal of International Migration and
Integration, Volume 2, No. 1, pp.1-26.
2000
Co-editor, Women in Conflict Zones,
Special Issue - Canadian Woman Studies,
Vol.19, no. 4. York University Publication.
1999 "Refugee Women in Serbia: Their
Experiences with War, Nationalism and State Building". Women,
Citizenship and Difference. Nira Yuval‑Davis and Pnina Werbner
(eds.). London: Zed Books.
1998 Linking Arms: Women and war in post‑Yugoslav
states. Women and Non-violence Series, no. 6. Life & Peace Institute,
Uppsala.
Recent lectures and invited papers
2001
May
Paper . Experiences of integration and policy context . integration of
refugees from
former Yugoslavia in Italy.
, the European Forum on Migration (EUROFOR)
conference, Aquafredda di Maratea Basilicata, Italy.
2002
March
Lecture . Self-reception system and experiences of integration of
refugees from
former Yugoslavia in Italy.
, Hilary Term Seminar Series in Forced Migration,
Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
