“Labour and Migration within Transformation Processes in South-East Europe and beyond”

6th International Conference “Society and Politics”

Faculty of Political Sciences University of Banja Luka, 25-26 September, 2025



Call for Papers / Panels



The aim of the conference is to contribute to the wider discussion in the field of labour and migration studies taking into account the ways in which transformations have influenced the changes in labour and migration regimes and practices within and outside of South-East Europe (SEE).

The conference will pay specific attention to the following (but non-exhaustive) list of thematic areas observed within specific transformation processes: labour migration regimes, practices and experiences, (changing) labour practices and (post-socialist) experiences, (labour) migration flows and strategies at macro, mezzo or micro level, workers and migrant workers agency, gendered dimensions of labour and/or migration, migration to Southeast Europe, refugees and related policies, etc.

The conference is organised as a joint collaboration of the Faculty of Political Sciences University of Banja Luka (FPN UNIBL) as the host, the University of Vienna – Research Centre for the History of Transformations (UNIVIE RECET), Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts – Institute of Culture and Memory Studies (ZRC SAZU) and Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg, in the framework of the Horizon Europe project “Enhancing Capacities for Quality and Impactful Research on Transformations, Labour and Migration in Southeast-Europe (RETLAMI-SEE)” funded by the European Commission.


We welcome submission of either a proposal for a panel consisting of 4 papers maximum, or an abstract for an individual paper.


Relevant dates:

Submission of abstracts / panel proposals - 15 April 2025

Notification on acceptance – 01 June 2025

Conference – 25-26 September 2025

Full paper submission – 10 October 2025

Notification on acceptance of full paper – 21 November 2025