Book Launch: Marija Grujic: Belonging in Unhomely Homelands

Dr Marija Grujić presented her book *Belonging in Unhomely Homelands* at the European University Viadrina on 11 June 2025.

Featuring:

• Dr Marija Grujić (Author – DFG Walter Benjamin Fellow, Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION)
• Prof. Dr Oksana Mikheieva (Discussant – Professor of Sociology at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) / IFES / ZOIS)
• Prof. Dr Tom Selwyn (Discussant – Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, and co-editor of the series ‘Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings’ for Berghahn publishers)
• Dr Darja Klingenberg (Discussant – Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION)

About the book:
Drawing on biographical narratives and feminist, postcolonial approaches, *Belonging in Unhomely Homelands* examines how internally displaced Kosovo Serbs navigate gendered nationalism, uncertain futures and the emotional pull of place. The book introduces the concepts of ‘oscillations of belonging’ and ‘out-of-placeness’ to explore how displacement challenges the idea of home, particularly when ethnic kinship does not guarantee a sense of belonging. It highlights the tensions between collective memory and individual trajectories, as well as the emotional, spatial and temporal dimensions of protracted displacement and estranged dwelling.

ISBN: 9781805398219
Open Access e-book: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781805398219
sponsored by: Berghahn Open Migration and Development Studies initiative

About the author:
Dr Marija Grujić is a DFG Walter Benjamin Fellow of the German Research Foundation at the Chair of Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology, European University Viadrina, and a member of the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION. Her research focuses on gender orders, the politics of (non)belonging, asylum infrastructures, postcolonial feminist theory, and digitalisation in migration governance.

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