Research interests
social demography, gender studies, sociology of the family, migration studies, population policy
Biography
Born in Belgrade, graduated Sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade. Magister (1995) and PhD degrees (2003) also from the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy. Since 2001 she has been teaching at the same Department, at both undergraduate and graduate levels, the following courses: Social Demography, Demography of Childbearing and Partnership, Contemporary Migration (undergraduate), Migration and Sustainable Development (master) and Contemporary Population Challenges (PhD). As a lecturer actively involved in the interdisciplinary master program Studies of Migration at the University of Belgrade. As a researcher, she has actively participated in a vast array of projects, such as: „Settlements and Population of the Branković Region in 1455” (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts) 1989–2001; various fieldwork research studies of the Institute for Social Sciences, 1998–2001; and, continuously since 2001, in all the studies conducted by the Institute for Sociological Research, whose Director she was between 2015 and 2018. She has pursued postdoc trainings in Bioethics in Italy and the Netherlands (Universita Degli Studi di Udine, Facolta di Medicina e Chirurgia, Italy, 2008-2009, and Redboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2009). In 2006 she spent a summer semester in the USA, at the University of Southern Maine, Muskie School of Public Service, through the JFDP program. Membership in the Serbian Demographic Society, Serbian Sociological Society and European Population Society. Membership in the editorial boards of scientific journals: Demografija (Faculty of Geography) and Stanovništvo (Institute of Social Sciences). She has taken part in numerous national and international scientific conferences. Since 2007, she has been actively involved as an evaluator, Rapporteur, Vice Chair and Chair in evaluations of scientific proposals under various calls of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
Selected publications
Bobić, Mirjana i Danica Šantić. 2018. Sigurnost EU vs. Sigurnosti migranata: Srbija na Balkanskoj migracijskoj ruti. Forum za sigurnosne studije, Vol. 2. No 2. Fakultet za političke znanosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, str. 219-246.
Bobić, Mirjana. 2018. Transition to Parenthood: New Insights into Socio-Psychological Costs of Childbearing, Stanovništvo, 56(1): 1-27. https://doi.org/10.2298/STNV180403003B.
Bobić, Mirjana and Stefan Janković (eds.). 2017. Towards Understanding of Contemporary Migration. Causes, Consequences, Policies, Reflections, Belgrade: Institute for Sociological Research, Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade, Serbian Sociological Society. (also e-book)
Bobić, Mirjana. 2017. Od partnerstva ka roditeljstvu: od uzajamnosti do odvojenosti, Limes Plus, geopolitički časopis., Vol. 14 (2), str. 107-133 https://www.limesplus.rs/index.php/casopisi
Bobić, Mirjana, Milica Vesković Anđelković i Vlasta Kokotović. 2016. Studija o spoljnim i unutrašnjim migracijama građana Srbije sa posebnim osvrtom na mlade. Beograd: IOM.
Bobić, Mirjana. 2016. The Reconstruction of Domestic Communities in the Branković Region of Serbia 1455, in: S. Sovič, P. Thane and P. P. Viazzo (eds.) The History of Families and Households. Comparative European Dimensions, Leiden/Boston: Brill Books, pp. 69-93. (ISSN 1877-8550)
Bobić, Mirjana. 2016. Homeless, Beograd: SORS.
Bobić, Mirjana and Mirjana Blagojević Hughson. 2014. Towards new Understanding of Change in Gender Relations at the Micro Level: Serbian Case. Zbornik Matice Srpske za drustvene nauke, br. 148, Novi Sad: Matica Srpska, pp. 511-523.
Bobić, Mirjana. 2014. Specific (Blocked) Post-socialist Union Transformation in Serbia. Sociologija i prostor, Vol. 52, No 2 (199) lipanj 2014, pp. 207-225, DOI: 10.5673/sip.52.2.5
Bobić, Mirjana. 2013. Postmoderne populacione studije. Demografija kao intersekcija, Beograd: Čigoja štampa i ISI FF. Bobić, Mirjana. 2013. Imigracija u Srbiji: Stanje i perspektive, tolerancija i integracija, Demografija, knj. 10. str. 99-115.
Bobić, Mirjana. 2010. Serbian Unfinished Business – Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, Migration in and from Southeastern Europe, serie „Europe&Balkans“ of Universita Bologna: Longo editore.
Bobić, Mirjana. 2009. Forced migrants in Serbia: Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons – Facts and Figures, Coping strategies, Future. Refuge, Canada’s Periodical on Refugees, The York University and Queens University, Canada, No 26, Vol 1, pp. 101-110.
Bobić, Mirjana. 2007. Demografija i Sociologija – Veza ili Sinteza, Beograd: Službeni Glasnik.
Bobić, Mirjana. 2003. Brak ili/i partnerstvo, Demografsko – sociološka studija, Beograd: Institut za sociološka istraživanja Filozofskog fakulteta i Čigoja štampa.
Selected presentations
Bobić, Mirjana. 2018. European Population Conference, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium, 6-9 June, 2018. https://eaps.confex.com/eaps/2018/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1317
Bobić, Mirjana. 2018. A search for that special place under the sun in modern Europe: migration in the twenty first century, Third Annual Conference of the Western Balkans Migration Network, The Institute of Economics, Institut za migracije i narodnosti, WB-Magnet, Central European Initiative, Zagreb, May, 25-26, 2018.
Bobić, Mirjana. 2017. Forced Migrations and externalization of EU border control: Serbia on Balkan migration route. Migration to and from Europe. Structures and Processes. University of Pecs, Faculty of Sciences and Statistical Office Budapest, October 6th, 2017. (key note speaker).
Bobić, Mirjana. 2017. Bezbednost EU vs bezbednost migranata: Srbija na balkanskoj migracionoj ruti. 21. znanstveni skup Centra za međunarodne i sigurnosne studije Fakulteta političkih znanosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu Nacionalne manjine, migracije i sigurnost u demokratskim društvima, Brijuni, 18-20. maj 2017.
Bobić, Mirjana. 2017. Ka boljoj demografskoj budućnosti Srbije. naučni skup Beograd: SANU, Kabinet Ministra bez portfelja zaduženog za demografiju i populacionu politiku, Institut društvenih nauka, Centar za demografska istraživanja, 27. februar 2017.
Bobić, Mirjana. 2016. Savremene migracije i društveni razvoj – interdisciplinarna perspektiva, Srpsko sociološko društvo, Institut za sociološka istraživanja Filozofskog fakulteta, Institut društvenih nauka, Zavod za proučavanje kulturnog razvitka, Beograd, 21-22. oktobar 2016.
Bobić, Mirjana. 2016. Geografski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu (međunarodni skup) „Contemporary Migration in a Changing World: New Perspectives and Challanges“, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Geography, 18-21 September 2016.
Bobić, Mirjana. 2010. Geographical mobility and family life: How to (re-)think family in a mobile world?, ESA interim meeting with the collaboration of German Federal Institute for population studies, Wiesbaden, Germany, 16-18 September, 2010.
Bobić, Mirjana. 2008. Forced Migrants in Serbia – facts, figures, coping strategies, policies, saopštenje na Međunarodnoj naučnoj konferenciji «Refugees and the Insecure Nation: Managing Forced Migrations in Canada», Centre for Refugee Studies, The York University, Toronto, Canada, June 15-18, 2008.
Bobić, Mirjana. 2008. Forced Migrants in Serbia, saopštenje na Međunarodnoj naučnoj konferenciji «Migration in and from Southeastern Europe» u organizaciji Centra za evropske studije izbeglištva, migracija i etničkih studija, Sofija (Bugarska) i Etnografskog instituta i Muzeja Bugarske akademije nauka i umetnosti, Sofija, 2-3. jun 2008.
