Julija is a Lecturer at the Political Science and International Relations Programme (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), where she teaches courses on human rights and co-teaches course on the politics of (forced) migration. Before joining Victoria University of Wellington, she was a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the University of Leuven, where she worked on a project entitled "Invisible Edges of Citizenship: Re-Addressing the Position of Roma in Europe". Prior to that, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and a CITSEE Research Fellow at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh.
Her research encompasses broader themes of citizenship and migration, but she particularly focuses on the legal status of marginalized and vulnerable minorities in Europe (such as Romani minorities, refugees, legally invisible and stateless persons).
Her recent publications include: "Roma in Times of Territorial Rescaling: An Inquiry into the Margins of European Citizenship" (Ethnopolitics, 2019), "In and out from the European margins: Reshuffling mobilities and legal statuses of Romani minorities between the Post-Yugoslav space and the European Union" (Social Identities, 2018) "No child left behind in the European Union: The position of Romani children" (Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2017), "The position and agency of the ‘irregularized’: Romani migrants as European semi-citizens" (Politics, 2017) and Romani minorities and uneven citizenship access in the post-Yugoslav space" (Ethnopolitics, 2015). She is currently working on a book entitled "The Fringes of Citizenship: Romani Minorities and Civic Marginalization in Europe (in publication process with Manchester University Press).