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Marina Lažetić
Marina Lažetić is a migration scholar whose research examines the governance of displacement and the politics of border regimes at the intersection of international relations, political science, and security studies. Her regional focus spans Europe and the Americas, with particular attention to the social, political, and ethical dimensions of forced migration and border management.
She serves as Director of Programs at the Center on Forced Displacement and as Editor of the Critical Forced Displacement Magazine. Her research and writing center on the lived experiences of displacement and on the individuals and communities residing in—or moving through—borderlands.
Lažetić is Co-Principal Investigator of a Mellon Foundation–funded project on European Union and United States border regimes, conducted in collaboration with Dr Carrie Preston and Dr Muhammad Zaman at Boston University. This project examines the diverse actors and strategies that shape border governance and the lived realities of forced displacement across these geopolitical contexts. An edited volume emerging from this research, Mexico–US, Serbia–EU Border Lives and Works, edited by Lažetić, Preston, and Zaman, has been published by Anthem Press and is available here: Mexico–US, Serbia–EU Border Lives and Works.
New Publication
An interdisciplinary, accessible study of Mexico–US and Serbia-EU border practices and policies that brings insights of critical border and forced displacement studies to examine histories, policies, violence, models of care, activism, and creativity within these border regimes.
Anthem Press has published Mexico-US, Serbia-EU Border Lives and Works, a book I’ve coedited with Dr. Carrie Preston and Dr. Muhammad Zaman in connection with our work at the Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University.
Background & Focus
Interrogating issues around forced disolacement, gender, and peacebuilding.
Over the past decade, Lažetić has worked extensively on issues related to border regimes, international relations, security risks posed by non-state actors, and climate-induced immobility and displacement. Her work is grounded in interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches, addressing the ethical and methodological challenges of documenting and analyzing displacement. She has led numerous international research and educational initiatives, including the Summer Program on Migration and Borders, which brings together scholars, practitioners, artists, and activists from the United States and Serbia in partnership with Boston University and the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science.
As an educator, Lažetić is committed to innovative and experiential teaching practices that engage students beyond the traditional classroom. She is a recipient of the Harvard University Office of Undergraduate Education Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (Spring 2021). Her teaching portfolio includes undergraduate and graduate courses on forced displacement, migration, international relations, border regimes, and research methodologies.
Lažetić holds an M.A. from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a B.A. from Bard College. She is a Ph.D. candidate at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where her dissertation examines civil society organizing in the U.S.–Mexico and EU–Serbia borderlands.
Associations
Fletcher School at
Tufts University
P.h.D. Candidate,
dissertation on civil society organizing in the US-Mexico and Hungary-Serbia borderlands.
Center on Forced Displacement at BU
Director of Programs
Critical Forced Displacement Magazine
Editor,
a publication of the Center of Forced Displacement at Boston University.
