Saša BOŽIĆ, Ph.D.

• Ph.D. in Sociology from the Institute for Sociology, University of Vienna, 1998
• B.A. in Sociology from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, 1993

• Department of Sociology, University of Zadar, 2006-
• Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, 2001- (since October 2006 - external associate)
• Austro-American Institute of Education, Vienna, 2000-2001
• Institute for Sociology, University of Vienna, 1996
• Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences ICCR, Vienna, 1993

• migrations in Europe, diaspora, post-migration conflicts, ethnic relations, nation and nationalism

• Head of the Project: "Transnational Migration – Challenges to Croatian Society" (076-0762385-2378), Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, 2007-
• Head of the Project: "Croatian Migrant Communities: Belonging and Multiculturalism" (0076001), Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, 2002-2006.
• Researcher: "Climate migrations, Quality of Life and Settlement of European Migrants on the Croatian Coast and Islands: Social Interactions, Socio-economic and Socio-cultural Characteristics of European Migrants on the Croatian Coast and Islands", Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, 2001-2002.
• Researcher in the project: "Life Experience and Life Feeling of Migrants", Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences ICCR, Vienna, 1998.
• Head of the project: "Immigrants and Integration under Conditions of Multilevel Ethnic Relationships", within the research project "Austria without Borders" of the Austrian Ministry of Culture, Institute for Sociology, University of Vienna, 1996-1998.
• Researcher in the project: "Politics of Multiculturalism at the Local Level", Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences ICCR, Vienna, 1994.
• Researcher and translator in the "Warburton Mission" (EU) for the research of systematic abuse of Muslim women in Bosnia, in cooperation with the London School of Economics, Zagreb, 1993.
• Researcher in the project: "Foreigners and Health", Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences ICCR and WHO, Vienna, 1993.
• Visiting researcher, project: "Multilingualism and Ethnicity in Europe", European Co-ordination Centre for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences, ECCRDSS Vienna, 1992.

Book and study

• Kroaten in Wien: Immigranten und Integration im Zusammenhang mehrschichtiger ethnischer Beziehungen, Zagreb: Jesenski i Turk, 2000.

Book chapters

• "From diaspora to transnation and back: Croatian migrant institutions and the (re)making of Croatia", in: Henriette Riegler (ed.), Beyond the Territory within the Nation: Diasporic Nation Building in South Eastern Europe, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2005, pp. 33-57.
• "Zwischen 'Diaspora' und 'Minderheit': Ethnische Strategien im Namen der Migrantengruppen", in: Klaus Roth (ed.), Vom Wandergesellen zum "Green Card"-Spezialisten: Interkulturelle Aspekte der Arbeitsmigration im östlichen Mitteleuropa, Münster: Waxmann, 2003, pp. 161-185.
• "Europska nacija: ideologizacija, realizacija, konflikti", in: Silva Mežnarić (ed.), Etničnost i stabilnost Europe u 21. stoljeću, Zagreb: Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Naklada Jesenski i Turk, Hrvatsko sociološko društvo, 2002, pp. 283-298.
• "Pretpostavke kreiranja etničnosti", in: Jadranka Čačić-Kumpes (ed.), Kultura, etničnost, identitet, Zagreb: Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Naklada Jesenski i Turk, Hrvatsko sociološko društvo, 1999, pp. 209-221.
• "Ethno-national Mobilization of Croat Immigrants in Vienna: Some Problems with an Undifferentiated Notion of the Politics of Belonging", in: Adrian Favell & Andrew Geddes (eds), The Politics of Belonging: Migrants and Minorities in Contemporary Europe, Ashgate: Aldershot, 1999, pp. 139-155.
• "Etničnost migrantskih zajednica: nastajanje novih manjina", in: Ružica Čičak-Chand & Josip Kumpes (eds), Etničnost, nacija, identitet: Hrvatska i Europa, Zagreb: Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Naklada Jesenski i Turk, Hrvatsko sociološko društvo, 1998, pp. 85-100.

Articles in journals

• "Achievement and Potential of International Retirement Migration Research: The Need for Disciplinary Exchange", Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2006, 32 (8), 1415-1427.
• "Migracijski potencijal Hrvatske – mikroanalitički aspekti", Migracijske i etničke teme, 2005, 21 (1-2), 9-33 (coauthor Ivan Burić).
• "Nacionalizam – nacija, 'transnacionalizam – transnacija': mogućnosti terminološkog usklađivanja", Revija za sociologiju, 2004, 35 (3-4), 187-203.
• "Posljednja avantura: umirovljeničke migracije, klima i 'ugodnosti' ", Migracijske i etničke teme, 2001, 17 (4), 31-46.
• "Uloga dijaspore u procesu transnacionalizacije", Revija za sociologiju, 2001, 32 (3-4), 117-132.
• "Transnacionalizacija i Haiderizacija: Relociranje krajnje desnice", Revija za sociologiju, 2000, 31 (1-2), 49-61.
• "Integracija i etnički odnosi hrvatskih migranata: Bečki slučaj", Revija za sociologiju, 1997, 28 (1-2), 63-83.