Author: Kacper Szulecki; Published in: Aspen Review Central Europe (February 2020), available in Open Access. Freedom of movement—particularly to travel and work in the “West”—was something Central Europeans dreamed of behind the Iron Curtain, and used to be given as the number one rationale for joining the EU. What if mass migration and democratic backsliding […]
Spring events canceled – but work continues
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, involving lock-downs in all the countries where are researchers are based (Norway, Poland, Spain, Denmark, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania and Italy) we were forces to cancel our Spring events (the User Board meeting and the Researcher Workshop). However, research goes as planned, even if electoral analyses have to be done from […]
DIASPOlitic Interviewer Training Workshop at PRIO
On 14-15 January Work Package 3 research team met (for the first time in ‘real life’) to discuss the interview questionnaire and prepare for fieldwork in Barcelona and Oslo. The workshop was hosted by WP3 leader, Marta Bivand Erdal and Davide Bertelli (research assistant) at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO), and attended by […]