Branka Likić‐brborić
Biographic Data
| ID | 3454424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Branka Likić‐brborić |
| GIVEN NAMES | Branka |
| FAMILY NAME | Likić‐brborić |
| SIGNATURE | BRBORIĆ B L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7697-7211 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Return and readmission policy in Europe
This introductory article presents the aims, context, and main findings of a symposium on return and readmission policies in Europe. It situates contemporary return policy within the historical transformation of European migration governance, from postwar labor recruitment and refugee protection to the politicization, securitization, and administrative intensification of removal. Drawing on eight national case studies covering seven EU member sta…
The Whole-of-Government turn in Swedish return policy
Sweden’s return and readmission policy has been transformed through the gradual adoption of a Whole‐of‐Government (WoG) approach, which has recentralized authority, strengthened hierarchical control, and reduced space for ethical deliberation within state institutions. Drawing on policy analysis, focus groups, and interviews, the article shows how practices once viewed as ethically problematic have been reframed as necessary elements of a “humane…
Handbook on Migration and Development
This Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the interaction between migration and development from a range of critical and counter-hegemonic perspectives. Exploring the strengths and weaknesses of existing practices connected with the migration and development nexus, contributing authors provide a clear understanding of their complex dynamics.
Global migration governance, civil society and the paradoxes of sustainability
Against the presentation of an asymmetric global governance, this article analyzes the formation of global migration governance with its focus on the politics of migration and development. It traces the marginalization of a rights-based approach to migration and the streamlining of migration governance into business-friendly migration management and a geopolitical securitization agenda. It also reviews the trajectory towards factoring migration i…
Migration, civil society and global governance
The current special issue examines the development of an emerging globalgovernance on migration and the spaces, roles, strategies and alliancemakingof a composite transnational civil society engaged in issues of rightsand the protection of migrants and their families. This question is connectedwith how different actors – the United Nations, international organizations,governments and a wide variety of civil society organizations and regionaland g…
Migration, Precarization and the Democratic Deficit in Global Governance
This article attempts to provide a critical understanding of the dual signification of “precarity”. It explores what “precarity” as a concept may potentially offer to studies of the changing contemporary political economy of migration. It discusses shifting trends in global migration and point to tendencies for a possible convergence between “South” and “North”, “East” and “West”. Based on a review of current advances in research, it discusses, w…
From Workers’ Self-management in Socialism to Trade Unions Marginalization in “Wild Capitalism”
This paper explores the largest steel producer in Bosnia and Herzegovina as it shifted from a state-owned company to a foreign-owned private company. The impact of the transition on industrial relations, effect of new management on employment conditions within the company and the changing role of trade unions is explored. The extent to which the findings can be considered a typical consequence of the inexorable encroachment of capitalism and priv…
Labour migration and informalisation
Purpose – Against a theoretical discussion of informalisation, the purpose of this paper is to trace wider commonalities and migratory interconnections that are leading to informalised or deteriorated employment conditions both East and West in the enlarged Europe. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines the ways in which informalisation has come increasingly to typify employment relations both East and West via contrastive case studies …
Successful But Different
Praised by international organizations, Estonia and Slovenia have long been considered among the most successful post-communist states. Estonia quickly transformed itself into one of the most liberal economies in the world, whereas Slovenia opted for a social justice-oriented market economy. Still, the roots of their success coincide in that consensus played a crucial role. We argue that the public sphere was never as repressed in Estonia and Slo…
EU Enlargement, Migration, and Asymmetric Citizenship
This article addresses European regionalism with a focus on the viability of social citizenship and transnational migrants' and labour rights. These issues are explored by addressing two interrelated formative moments: EU enlargement towards former communist countries and the EU migration regime. The main argument is that the impact of an employer-friendly asymmetric inclusion of the new member states (NMS) into the peripheral pattern of accumula…
Migrants and the Unequal Burdening of “Toxic” Risk
The article addresses the changing discourse that frames the neo-liberal regulatory agenda, in the context of the current financial crisis and related, system-threatening ‘toxic’ risk. In this, the authors claim that a flexible mix of regulation/deregulation and self-regulation is reflected in an asymmetric architecture of multilevel governance that is based on an unequal burden-sharing of risk, involving the commodification of risk and an imposi…
Migration, Precarization and the Democratic Deficit in Global Governance
This article attempts to provide a critical understanding of the dual signification of “precarity”. It explores what “precarity” as a concept may potentially offer to studies of the changing contemporary political economy of migration. It discusses shifting trends in global migration and point to tendencies for a possible convergence between “South” and “North”, “East” and “West”. Based on a review of current advances in research, it discusses, w…
Global migration governance, civil society and the paradoxes of sustainability
Against the presentation of an asymmetric global governance, this article analyzes the formation of global migration governance with its focus on the politics of migration and development. It traces the marginalization of a rights-based approach to migration and the streamlining of migration governance into business-friendly migration management and a geopolitical securitization agenda. It also reviews the trajectory towards factoring migration i…
EU Enlargement, Migration, and Asymmetric Citizenship
This article addresses European regionalism with a focus on the viability of social citizenship and transnational migrants' and labour rights. These issues are explored by addressing two interrelated formative moments: EU enlargement towards former communist countries and the EU migration regime. The main argument is that the impact of an employer-friendly asymmetric inclusion of the new member states (NMS) into the peripheral pattern of accumula…
Migrants and the Unequal Burdening of “Toxic” Risk
The article addresses the changing discourse that frames the neo-liberal regulatory agenda, in the context of the current financial crisis and related, system-threatening ‘toxic’ risk. In this, the authors claim that a flexible mix of regulation/deregulation and self-regulation is reflected in an asymmetric architecture of multilevel governance that is based on an unequal burden-sharing of risk, involving the commodification of risk and an imposi…
Migration, civil society and global governance
The current special issue examines the development of an emerging globalgovernance on migration and the spaces, roles, strategies and alliancemakingof a composite transnational civil society engaged in issues of rightsand the protection of migrants and their families. This question is connectedwith how different actors – the United Nations, international organizations,governments and a wide variety of civil society organizations and regionaland g…
Labour migration and informalisation
Purpose – Against a theoretical discussion of informalisation, the purpose of this paper is to trace wider commonalities and migratory interconnections that are leading to informalised or deteriorated employment conditions both East and West in the enlarged Europe. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines the ways in which informalisation has come increasingly to typify employment relations both East and West via contrastive case studies …
Migrants and the Unequal Burdening of “Toxic” Risk
The article addresses the changing discourse that frames the neo-liberal regulatory agenda, in the context of the current financial crisis and related, system-threatening ‘toxic’ risk. In this, the authors claim that a flexible mix of regulation/deregulation and self-regulation is reflected in an asymmetric architecture of multilevel governance that is based on an unequal burden-sharing of risk, involving the commodification of risk and an imposi…
EU Enlargement, Migration, and Asymmetric Citizenship
This article addresses European regionalism with a focus on the viability of social citizenship and transnational migrants' and labour rights. These issues are explored by addressing two interrelated formative moments: EU enlargement towards former communist countries and the EU migration regime. The main argument is that the impact of an employer-friendly asymmetric inclusion of the new member states (NMS) into the peripheral pattern of accumula…
Successful But Different
Praised by international organizations, Estonia and Slovenia have long been considered among the most successful post-communist states. Estonia quickly transformed itself into one of the most liberal economies in the world, whereas Slovenia opted for a social justice-oriented market economy. Still, the roots of their success coincide in that consensus played a crucial role. We argue that the public sphere was never as repressed in Estonia and Slo…
From Workers’ Self-management in Socialism to Trade Unions Marginalization in “Wild Capitalism”
This paper explores the largest steel producer in Bosnia and Herzegovina as it shifted from a state-owned company to a foreign-owned private company. The impact of the transition on industrial relations, effect of new management on employment conditions within the company and the changing role of trade unions is explored. The extent to which the findings can be considered a typical consequence of the inexorable encroachment of capitalism and priv…
Labour migration and informalisation
Purpose – Against a theoretical discussion of informalisation, the purpose of this paper is to trace wider commonalities and migratory interconnections that are leading to informalised or deteriorated employment conditions both East and West in the enlarged Europe. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines the ways in which informalisation has come increasingly to typify employment relations both East and West via contrastive case studies …
Migration, Precarization and the Democratic Deficit in Global Governance
This article attempts to provide a critical understanding of the dual signification of “precarity”. It explores what “precarity” as a concept may potentially offer to studies of the changing contemporary political economy of migration. It discusses shifting trends in global migration and point to tendencies for a possible convergence between “South” and “North”, “East” and “West”. Based on a review of current advances in research, it discusses, w…
Global migration governance, civil society and the paradoxes of sustainability
Against the presentation of an asymmetric global governance, this article analyzes the formation of global migration governance with its focus on the politics of migration and development. It traces the marginalization of a rights-based approach to migration and the streamlining of migration governance into business-friendly migration management and a geopolitical securitization agenda. It also reviews the trajectory towards factoring migration i…
Migration, civil society and global governance
The current special issue examines the development of an emerging globalgovernance on migration and the spaces, roles, strategies and alliancemakingof a composite transnational civil society engaged in issues of rightsand the protection of migrants and their families. This question is connectedwith how different actors – the United Nations, international organizations,governments and a wide variety of civil society organizations and regionaland g…
Handbook on Migration and Development
This Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the interaction between migration and development from a range of critical and counter-hegemonic perspectives. Exploring the strengths and weaknesses of existing practices connected with the migration and development nexus, contributing authors provide a clear understanding of their complex dynamics.
Return and readmission policy in Europe
This introductory article presents the aims, context, and main findings of a symposium on return and readmission policies in Europe. It situates contemporary return policy within the historical transformation of European migration governance, from postwar labor recruitment and refugee protection to the politicization, securitization, and administrative intensification of removal. Drawing on eight national case studies covering seven EU member sta…
The Whole-of-Government turn in Swedish return policy
Sweden’s return and readmission policy has been transformed through the gradual adoption of a Whole‐of‐Government (WoG) approach, which has recentralized authority, strengthened hierarchical control, and reduced space for ethical deliberation within state institutions. Drawing on policy analysis, focus groups, and interviews, the article shows how practices once viewed as ethically problematic have been reframed as necessary elements of a “humane…
Political science (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Civil society (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Corporate governance (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works)