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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).

Experience

  • 2016–present
    Postdoctoral Researcher , School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool
  • 2017–2020
    Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Leuven, Belgium
  • 2014–2016
    Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute
  • 2012–2014
    Research Fellow, School of Law, University of Edinburgh

Education

  • 2013 
    University of Ljubljana, PhD In Sociology
  • 2011 
    Central European University, MA in Nationalism Studies with Distiction

Publications

  • 2021
    The Fringes of Citizenship, Manchester University Press
  • 2017
    No child left behind in the European Union?: the position of Romani children, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law
  • 2016
    The position and agency of the ‘irregularized’: Romani migrants as European semi-citizens, Politics
  • 2015
    Romani minorities and uneven citizenship access in the post-Yugoslav space, Ethnopolitics

Grants and Contracts

  • 2017
    Marie Sklodowska-Curie Intra-European Fellowship
    Role:
    Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow
    Funding Source:
    European Commission
  • 2015
    Centre for Advanced Studies - South Eastern Europe Visiting Fellowship
    Role:
    Visiting Fellow
    Funding Source:
    CAS SEE