Carolin Leutloff-Grandits
Biographic Data
| ID | 125782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolin Leutloff-Grandits |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolin |
| FAMILY NAME | Leutloff-Grandits |
| SIGNATURE | LEUTLOFF-GRANDITS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | European University Viadrina |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4669-0142 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Utilizing B/Order Asymmetries: Trust as an Important Success Factor for Diaspora Entrepreneurs in Kosovo
Borders mark asymmetries, including in the economic sphere. International entrepreneurs often associate Kosovo with a slow and corrupt administration, inadequately trained staff and a not so well-developed infrastructure and therefore consider investments risky; many people leave Kosovo to find better conditions in the EU. This article focuses on diaspora entrepreneurs who swim against the tide and open a business in Kosovo. In particular, it exa…
Migrant Entrepreneurs as Drivers of Wage and Labour Standards: Transnational Normative and Structural Embeddedness for Promoting Development in Kosovo
Migrant and diaspora entrepreneurs who create economic links between origin and immigration countries are increasingly seen as development actors. However, it remains unclear to what extent they improve working standards in their countries of origin and what motives and conditions shape their actions. Using a combined analytical frame—transnational normative and structural embeddedness—this article critically examines wage and labour norms promot…
Of Being Stuck or Moving On: Border Temporalities Along the EU’s External Border in the Western Balkans
This article focuses on two temporal dimensions of borders in an entangled perspective: first, the temporal dimension according to which borders may establish a temporal taxonomy by marking those living across the border as being more or less advanced or backward, and second, borders in the function of channelling mobility, accelerating or slowing down movements, or even bringing them to a standstill. Referring to social anthropological case stud…
The Balkans as “Double Transit Space”: Boundary Demarcations and Boundary Transgressions Between Local Inhabitants and “Transit Migrants” in the Shadow of the EU Border Regime
To introduce the special section, this article presents an analysis of the dynamics of border closures and openings in the countries of the “Western Balkans.” It examines the interconnections between the situation of so-called “transit migrants” on their way through these countries to the EU and the particular position of these countries in the protracted EU accession process, which also affects the situation of the local population. Highlighting…
‘Fight against Hunger’: Ambiguities of a Charity Campaign in Postwar Croatia
“We are not Just the Border of Croatia; This is the Border of the European Union … ” The Croatian Borderland as “Double Periphery”
This article addresses the double-layered border between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is simultaneously a nation-state and an external EU border and recently became a hotspot for irregular migration crossings. Based on social anthropological research in the region, the article explores the perspectives of the local population in the Croatian border region and asks how local inhabitants reflect on the changing qualities of their borde…
When men migrate for marriage: Negotiating partnerships and gender roles in cross-border marriages between rural Kosovo and the EU
In Western hegemonic discourses, cross-border marriages in which ethnic minority members, especially Muslims, take a partner from a ‘country of origin’ are framed as patriarchal and backward and women are portrayed as victims within such marriages. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, the article focuses on the marriages of men from rural Kosovo, who have moved to Austria or Germany because they married a woman from a ‘Kosovan’ background, …
Temporalities of Refugee Experience in Germany. Diversification of Asylum Rights and Proliferation of Internal Boundaries
In Germany, the large influx of refugees arriving in 2015 led to numerous changes in asylum legislation and to new administrative measures. Apart from humanitarian reasons, integration efforts such as language learning, labour market inclusion as well as cooperation with authorities gained weight and are increasingly factored into decisions on residency permits or extension of stay. On the basis of participant observation within a refugee accommo…
Migrating borders and moving times: Temporality and the crossing of borders in Europe
Migrating Borders and Moving Times analyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time, and connects these to wider social and political structures. Sometimes border crossing takes no more than a moment; sometimes hours; some crossers find themselves in the limbo of detention; for others, the crossing lasts a lifetime to be interrupted only by death. Borders not only define separate spaces, but different temporalit…
Post-Dayton ethnic engineering in Croatia through the lenses of property issues and social transformations
This article looks at post-Dayton Croatia, and deals with the question of why minority return was not as successful as anticipated. By examining the link between restitution of housing property and minority return, it argues that the perpetuation of ethno-national logics was not only based on local power holders who obstructed return, but was also the ‘infelicity’ of a less than well-thought-through plan of minority return directed by internation…
Kinship, Community and Care: Rural-Urban Contrasts in Croatia
Parenté, communauté, entraide : différences entre la ville et la campagne en Croatie Fondé sur un double terrain croate, urbain et rural, cet article analyse le rôle des parents dans la Croatie d'après le socialisme. En dépit de points communs, comme la proximité résidentielle de la proche famille et l'importance de la parentèle, deux rationalités distinctes sont en fait à l'œuvre. Dans le complexe urbain de Travno, la proximité spatiale des proc…
Self-sacrifice or natural donation? A life course perspective on grandmothering in new zagreb (Croatia) and east Berlin (Germany)
In this article we explore grandmaternal care and its interpretations in two European capitals of former socialist countries, Zagreb and Berlin. We describe the scope and variety of grandmaternal care practices both field sites and then contrast two grandmotherly interpretations of their intensive caring for grandchildren The different appraisal of their similar practice as self-sacrifice and natural donation respectively is embedded in different…
Social Security in Religious Networks: Anthropological Perspectives on New Risks and Ambivalences
During the last decades, the world has been facing tremendous political transformations and new risks: epidemics such as HIV/Aids have had destabilizing effect on the caretaking role of kin; in post-socialist countries political reforms have made unemployment a new source of insecurity. Furthermore, the state’s withdrawal from providing social security is taking place throughout the world. One response to these developments has been increased mig…
Social Security in Religious Networks: Anthropological Perspectives on New Risks and Ambivalences
Contested citizenship: Between national and social rights in post-war Knin, Croatia
The paper deals with the post-war, postsocialist region of Knin in Croatia and discusses the 'grand plan' of Croatian national engineering after the war in the 1990s and its (partial) 'failure' at the local level. Building on concepts of social security and citizenship as an analytical frame, it shows that the Croatian nationality became not only an ideological perspective, but a practical means to achieving social rights, including access to hou…
Claiming Ownership in Postwar Croatia. The Dynamics of Property Relations and Ethnic Conflict in the Knin Region
The book analyses inter-group relations in a war-torn region of postsocialist Croatia which previously had a large Serbian population. The focus is on the legitimising discourses, structures and agencies which regulate access to houses and land. It explores the role of ethnicity and locality in everyday life and in politics and shows that the views of Knin Croats often diverge from those of recent Croatian immigrants. The study contributes to the…
Kroatiens Serben zehn Jahre nach Kriegsende
Mesis Rede durch "Ante", "Ante" Rufe unterbrochen, was offenbarte, da zumindest ein Teil des Publikums innerlich auf Seiten Ante Gotovinas stand. Applaus gab es einzig, als Mesi des verstorbenen Prsidenten Franjo Tuman gedachte und ihm fr die Militraktion Oluja dankte
Temporalities of Refugee Experience in Germany. Diversification of Asylum Rights and Proliferation of Internal Boundaries
In Germany, the large influx of refugees arriving in 2015 led to numerous changes in asylum legislation and to new administrative measures. Apart from humanitarian reasons, integration efforts such as language learning, labour market inclusion as well as cooperation with authorities gained weight and are increasingly factored into decisions on residency permits or extension of stay. On the basis of participant observation within a refugee accommo…
When men migrate for marriage: Negotiating partnerships and gender roles in cross-border marriages between rural Kosovo and the EU
In Western hegemonic discourses, cross-border marriages in which ethnic minority members, especially Muslims, take a partner from a ‘country of origin’ are framed as patriarchal and backward and women are portrayed as victims within such marriages. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, the article focuses on the marriages of men from rural Kosovo, who have moved to Austria or Germany because they married a woman from a ‘Kosovan’ background, …
Self-sacrifice or natural donation? A life course perspective on grandmothering in new zagreb (Croatia) and east Berlin (Germany)
In this article we explore grandmaternal care and its interpretations in two European capitals of former socialist countries, Zagreb and Berlin. We describe the scope and variety of grandmaternal care practices both field sites and then contrast two grandmotherly interpretations of their intensive caring for grandchildren The different appraisal of their similar practice as self-sacrifice and natural donation respectively is embedded in different…
The Balkans as “Double Transit Space”: Boundary Demarcations and Boundary Transgressions Between Local Inhabitants and “Transit Migrants” in the Shadow of the EU Border Regime
To introduce the special section, this article presents an analysis of the dynamics of border closures and openings in the countries of the “Western Balkans.” It examines the interconnections between the situation of so-called “transit migrants” on their way through these countries to the EU and the particular position of these countries in the protracted EU accession process, which also affects the situation of the local population. Highlighting…
Post-Dayton ethnic engineering in Croatia through the lenses of property issues and social transformations
This article looks at post-Dayton Croatia, and deals with the question of why minority return was not as successful as anticipated. By examining the link between restitution of housing property and minority return, it argues that the perpetuation of ethno-national logics was not only based on local power holders who obstructed return, but was also the ‘infelicity’ of a less than well-thought-through plan of minority return directed by internation…
Kinship, Community and Care: Rural-Urban Contrasts in Croatia
Parenté, communauté, entraide : différences entre la ville et la campagne en Croatie Fondé sur un double terrain croate, urbain et rural, cet article analyse le rôle des parents dans la Croatie d'après le socialisme. En dépit de points communs, comme la proximité résidentielle de la proche famille et l'importance de la parentèle, deux rationalités distinctes sont en fait à l'œuvre. Dans le complexe urbain de Travno, la proximité spatiale des proc…
Kroatiens Serben zehn Jahre nach Kriegsende
Mesis Rede durch "Ante", "Ante" Rufe unterbrochen, was offenbarte, da zumindest ein Teil des Publikums innerlich auf Seiten Ante Gotovinas stand. Applaus gab es einzig, als Mesi des verstorbenen Prsidenten Franjo Tuman gedachte und ihm fr die Militraktion Oluja dankte
Claiming Ownership in Postwar Croatia. The Dynamics of Property Relations and Ethnic Conflict in the Knin Region
The book analyses inter-group relations in a war-torn region of postsocialist Croatia which previously had a large Serbian population. The focus is on the legitimising discourses, structures and agencies which regulate access to houses and land. It explores the role of ethnicity and locality in everyday life and in politics and shows that the views of Knin Croats often diverge from those of recent Croatian immigrants. The study contributes to the…
Contested citizenship: Between national and social rights in post-war Knin, Croatia
The paper deals with the post-war, postsocialist region of Knin in Croatia and discusses the 'grand plan' of Croatian national engineering after the war in the 1990s and its (partial) 'failure' at the local level. Building on concepts of social security and citizenship as an analytical frame, it shows that the Croatian nationality became not only an ideological perspective, but a practical means to achieving social rights, including access to hou…
Social Security in Religious Networks: Anthropological Perspectives on New Risks and Ambivalences
During the last decades, the world has been facing tremendous political transformations and new risks: epidemics such as HIV/Aids have had destabilizing effect on the caretaking role of kin; in post-socialist countries political reforms have made unemployment a new source of insecurity. Furthermore, the state’s withdrawal from providing social security is taking place throughout the world. One response to these developments has been increased mig…
Social Security in Religious Networks: Anthropological Perspectives on New Risks and Ambivalences
Self-sacrifice or natural donation? A life course perspective on grandmothering in new zagreb (Croatia) and east Berlin (Germany)
In this article we explore grandmaternal care and its interpretations in two European capitals of former socialist countries, Zagreb and Berlin. We describe the scope and variety of grandmaternal care practices both field sites and then contrast two grandmotherly interpretations of their intensive caring for grandchildren The different appraisal of their similar practice as self-sacrifice and natural donation respectively is embedded in different…
Kinship, Community and Care: Rural-Urban Contrasts in Croatia
Parenté, communauté, entraide : différences entre la ville et la campagne en Croatie Fondé sur un double terrain croate, urbain et rural, cet article analyse le rôle des parents dans la Croatie d'après le socialisme. En dépit de points communs, comme la proximité résidentielle de la proche famille et l'importance de la parentèle, deux rationalités distinctes sont en fait à l'œuvre. Dans le complexe urbain de Travno, la proximité spatiale des proc…
Post-Dayton ethnic engineering in Croatia through the lenses of property issues and social transformations
This article looks at post-Dayton Croatia, and deals with the question of why minority return was not as successful as anticipated. By examining the link between restitution of housing property and minority return, it argues that the perpetuation of ethno-national logics was not only based on local power holders who obstructed return, but was also the ‘infelicity’ of a less than well-thought-through plan of minority return directed by internation…
Migrating borders and moving times: Temporality and the crossing of borders in Europe
Migrating Borders and Moving Times analyses migrant border crossings in relation to their everyday experiences of time, and connects these to wider social and political structures. Sometimes border crossing takes no more than a moment; sometimes hours; some crossers find themselves in the limbo of detention; for others, the crossing lasts a lifetime to be interrupted only by death. Borders not only define separate spaces, but different temporalit…
Temporalities of Refugee Experience in Germany. Diversification of Asylum Rights and Proliferation of Internal Boundaries
In Germany, the large influx of refugees arriving in 2015 led to numerous changes in asylum legislation and to new administrative measures. Apart from humanitarian reasons, integration efforts such as language learning, labour market inclusion as well as cooperation with authorities gained weight and are increasingly factored into decisions on residency permits or extension of stay. On the basis of participant observation within a refugee accommo…
When men migrate for marriage: Negotiating partnerships and gender roles in cross-border marriages between rural Kosovo and the EU
In Western hegemonic discourses, cross-border marriages in which ethnic minority members, especially Muslims, take a partner from a ‘country of origin’ are framed as patriarchal and backward and women are portrayed as victims within such marriages. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, the article focuses on the marriages of men from rural Kosovo, who have moved to Austria or Germany because they married a woman from a ‘Kosovan’ background, …
‘Fight against Hunger’: Ambiguities of a Charity Campaign in Postwar Croatia
“We are not Just the Border of Croatia; This is the Border of the European Union … ” The Croatian Borderland as “Double Periphery”
This article addresses the double-layered border between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is simultaneously a nation-state and an external EU border and recently became a hotspot for irregular migration crossings. Based on social anthropological research in the region, the article explores the perspectives of the local population in the Croatian border region and asks how local inhabitants reflect on the changing qualities of their borde…
The Balkans as “Double Transit Space”: Boundary Demarcations and Boundary Transgressions Between Local Inhabitants and “Transit Migrants” in the Shadow of the EU Border Regime
To introduce the special section, this article presents an analysis of the dynamics of border closures and openings in the countries of the “Western Balkans.” It examines the interconnections between the situation of so-called “transit migrants” on their way through these countries to the EU and the particular position of these countries in the protracted EU accession process, which also affects the situation of the local population. Highlighting…
Of Being Stuck or Moving On: Border Temporalities Along the EU’s External Border in the Western Balkans
This article focuses on two temporal dimensions of borders in an entangled perspective: first, the temporal dimension according to which borders may establish a temporal taxonomy by marking those living across the border as being more or less advanced or backward, and second, borders in the function of channelling mobility, accelerating or slowing down movements, or even bringing them to a standstill. Referring to social anthropological case stud…
Migrant Entrepreneurs as Drivers of Wage and Labour Standards: Transnational Normative and Structural Embeddedness for Promoting Development in Kosovo
Migrant and diaspora entrepreneurs who create economic links between origin and immigration countries are increasingly seen as development actors. However, it remains unclear to what extent they improve working standards in their countries of origin and what motives and conditions shape their actions. Using a combined analytical frame—transnational normative and structural embeddedness—this article critically examines wage and labour norms promot…
Utilizing B/Order Asymmetries: Trust as an Important Success Factor for Diaspora Entrepreneurs in Kosovo
Borders mark asymmetries, including in the economic sphere. International entrepreneurs often associate Kosovo with a slow and corrupt administration, inadequately trained staff and a not so well-developed infrastructure and therefore consider investments risky; many people leave Kosovo to find better conditions in the EU. This article focuses on diaspora entrepreneurs who swim against the tide and open a business in Kosovo. In particular, it exa…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (10 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Politics (5 works)