Country report : Serbia
This report has been produced by the CITSEE project (The Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Successor States of the former Yugoslavia) in close cooperation with EUDO CITIZENSHIP. CITSEE is a project based at Edinburgh University Law School and funded by an Advanced Investigator Award for basic research made to Jo Shaw by the European Council.
Migrants as knowledge carriers : international mobility and the highly skilled in Serbia
This research is a study of knowledge transfer through international mobility in Serbia, focusing 
on the knowledge and skills that individuals acquire, generate and transfer through the migration 
experience. Grounded in the literatures on migration and development, globalisation, and 
knowledge management, the thesis measures the acquisition and transfer of formal skills, 
qualifications and tacit skills by mobile individuals. Integration of Eastern European countries into 
global and regional economic and political structures has reinvigorated the study of migration 
and this project is designed to plug a gap in empirical research on the micro-level experiences of 
knowledge transfer by return migrants. One of the key questions of this research is why 
knowledge transfer does not automatically follow return migration, often in spite of micro and 
macro level efforts targeting skilled migrants. The research argues that the workplace is a key 
site where reintegration can be observed and measured, and finds that highly skilled returnees 
carry a range of skills and competences that can benefit workplaces in economic transition. The 
research also demonstrates that domestic and international factors play a crucial role in the 
ability of return migrants to transfer knowledge to Serbia. While the workplace is the principal 
level of investigation, a multi-level analysis is required in recognition of the multiple factors that 
influence international mobility. As such, this research also analyses the role of the state, global 
processes, individual motivations, and different types of knowledge. The research approach is 
multi-method, comprising qualitative and quantitative analysis of unique survey and interview 
data, and documents produced by government departments, international bodies and NGOs. The 
methodology also uses qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to identify the conditions that 
lead to knowledge sharing in the workplace.
Fédéralisme et citoyenneté aux États-Unis et dans l'Union européenne
L’objet de l’article est de comparer les modalites d’articulation entre citoyennete nationale americaine et citoyennete dans les cinquante Etats federes, d’une part, et entre citoyennete europeenne et nationalite dans les Etats membres de l’Union, d’autre part. Aux Etats-Unis, le quatorzieme Amendement de 1868 avait pour but de faire de la citoyennete nationale americaine la categorie juridique principale, et la citoyennete d’Etat comme une derivee : un citoyen d’un Etat peut acquerir la citoyennete d’un autre Etat simplement en changeant de residence, et chacun a le droit constitutionnel de changer d’Etat de residence. En outre, la source juridique de la protection des droits de l’individu contre l’action publique est passee du droit des Etats federes au droit federal. En Europe, en revanche, la citoyennete dans l’Union derive exclusivement de la nationalite d’un Etat membre, et ces derniers definissent librement leur droit de la nationalite. Les droits politiques accordes aux citoyens europeens par le Traite de Maastricht restent d’une portee bien plus limitee.