Veronika Bajt was awarded her Doctor of Philosophy research degree by University of Bristol (UK) in 2003. She graduated in sociology at University of Ljubljana in 1998, and has a Master of Arts degree from Central European University (CEU), Warsaw, Poland. She spent a year lecturing at Masaryk University in Brno (CZ) on a postdoctoral scholarship (2005-2006), and was a lecturer at International University Institute for European Studies (IUIES) in Gorizia (Italy). She has been a researcher at the Peace Institute since 2006, and is working on several international projects.

Studies of nationalism, ethnicity and racism, xenophobia and intolerance, migrations, discrimination and construction of national identities.

• Cross-Border Experience: The Interfaces of the EU and the SEE Countries Enhancing a Successful Enlargement Process (2011)
• Changing Social Organization of Care and its Implications for Social Politics (2010)
• The Role of Non-Governmental Organisations and Volunteers in Protection of Children’s Rights and Human Rights (2010)
• INTEGRACE – Integrating Refugee and Asylum-seeking Children in the Educational Systems of EU Member States: Evaluation and Promotion of Current Best Practices (2010)
• PRIMTS – Prospects for Integration of Migrants from »Third Countries« and their Labour Market Situations: Towards Policies and Action (2008)
• The Erased People of Slovenia – A Challenge of a Young Nation-State (2007)
• Roma People in Ljubljana: Diversity of Perspectives (2007)
• Effects of Discrimination on Societal, Political and Social Inclusion of Young People in Slovenia: An Analysis on the Basis of Gender, Sexual Orientation and Ethnicity (2006)
• FeMiPol: Integration of Female Immigrants in Labour Market and Society: Policy Assessment and Policy Recommendations (2006)
• FEMIPOL - Integration of Female Immigrants in Labour Market and Society (2006)
• Analysis and Promotion of Policy Debate on the European Future of Turkey and Ukraine in Four Central European States (2005)

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E-mail: veronika.bajt@mirovni-institut.si

Mojca Pajnik, Veronika Bajt: Migrant Women’s Transnationalism: Family Patterns and Policies. International Migration, 2012, Volume 50, Issue 5, pages 153–168.

Bajt, Veronika. Myths of Nationhood: Slovenians, Caranthania and the Venetic Theory. Annales, 21(2): 249-260, 2011.

Bajt, Veronika. The Muslim Other in Slovenia. Intersections of a Religious and Ethnic Minority. In: Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska (ed.) Muslims in Poland and Eastern Europe: Widening the European Discourse on Islam. University of Warsaw, Warsaw, pp. 307–326, 2011.

Pankov, Miloš, Mihelj, Sabina, Bajt, Veronika. Nationalism, Gender and the Multivocality of War Discourse in Television News. Media, Culture & Society, 33(7): 1043-1060, 2011.
Bajt, Veronika. Wither Nationalism? Revisiting the Study of Nationalism. In: Lana Zdravković, Iva Zenzerović

Šloser (eds.) Imagi-nation, Centar za mirovne studije, Zagreb, Mirovni inštitut, Ljubljana, pp. 48-61, 2011.
Pajnik, Mojca, Bajt, Veronika. ‘Third Country’ Migrant Workers as ‘Third Class Non-citizens’ in Slovenia. In:

Mojca Pajnik, Giovanna Campani (eds.). Precarious Migrant Labour across Europe, Peace Institute, Ljubjana, pp. 97-118, 2011.

Mojca Pajnik, Veronika Bajt: Migrant Women and Their Labour: What Prospects for Social Citizenship? In Maija Jäppinen, Meri Kulmala and Aino Saarinen (eds.): Gazing at Welfare, Gender and Agency in Post-socialist Countries. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 320–337, 2011.

Veronika Bajt: Nationalism from Nation to Statehood: The Emergence of Slovenia. Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken, 2010.

Mojca Pajnik, Veronika Bajt: Migrant Remittances in Times of Economic Decline: Coping with Protectionist Policies in Slovenia. Migration Letters 7 (2): 179–189, 2010.

Mojca Pajnik, Veronika Bajt, Sanja Herič: Migranti na trgu dela v Sloveniji. (Migrants in the Labour Market in Slovenia). Dve domovini (Two Homelands) 32: 151–167, 2010.

Veronika Bajt, Mojca Pajnik: Studying Migration in Slovenia: The Need for Tracing Gender. In Krystyna Slany, Maria Kontos, Maria Liapi (eds.): Women in New Migrations: Debates in European Societies. Cracow: Jagiellonian University Press, pp. 299–322, 2010.

N. Kogovšek, J. Zorn, S. Pistotnik, U. Lipovec Čebron, V. Bajt, B. Petković in L. Zdravković: Brazgotine izbrisa: Prispevek h kritičnemu razumevanju izbrisa iz registra stalnega prebivalstva Republike Slovenije. Mirovni inštitut, Ljubljana, 2009. 

Bajt, Veronika: Postkomunističko obnavljanje slovenačkog kolektivnog pamćenja i nacionalnog identiteta (The Post-communist Renegotiation of Slovenian Collective Memory and National Identity). In: Đerić, Gordana (ed.): Pamćenje i nostalgija: Neki prostori, oblici, lica i naličja. Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Belgrade, 2009, pp. 83-114.

Pajnik, Mojca, Bajt, Veronika: Biografski narativni intervju: Aplikacija na študije migracij (Biographical Narrative Interview: Application to Studies of Migration). Dve domovini (Two Homelands). 2009, 30, pp. 69-89.

Mihelj, Sabina, Bajt, Veronika, Pankov, Miloš: Television News, Narrative Conventions and National Imagination. Discourse & Communication. 2009, 3(1), pp. 57-78.

Mihelj, Sabina, Bajt, Veronika, Pankov, Miloš: Reorganizing the Identification Matrix: Televisual Construction of Collective Identities in the Early Phase of Yugoslav Disintegration. In: Pål Kolstø (ed.): Media Discourse and the Yugoslav Conflicts: Representations of Self and Other. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009, pp. 39-59.

Bajt, Veronika: Muslims in Slovenia: Between Tolerance and Discrimination. Revija za sociologiju. 2008, 39(4): pp. 221-234.

Mihelj, Sabina, Bajt, Veronika, Pankov, Miloš: Reorganizacija identifikacionog obrasca: televizuelna izgradnja kolektivnog identiteta u ranoj fazi raspada Jugoslavije. In: ĐERIĆ, Gordana (ed.). Intima javnosti.
Beograd: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju: Fabrika knjiga, 2008, pp. 98-125.

Bajt, Veronika: Can Sociobiology Explain Xenophobia and Nationalism? (Interview with Pierre L. van den Berghejem, co-author D. Mandelc), In: Sprawy Narodowosciowe (Nationalities Affairs), 2007, 30, pp. 7-23.Translated in Slovene: Enfant terrible študij nacionalizma, In: Teorija in praksa, 2006, let. 43, No. 5-6, pp. 846 - 864.

Bajt, Veronika: Slovenia, In: Kazmierkiewicz, P. (ed.): EU Accession Prospects for Turkey and Ukraine: Debates in New Member States. Institute of Public Affairs, Warsaw, 2006, pp. 142 - 179.

Bajt, Veronika: Contemporary Slovenia and the ‘Other', V: Pajnik, M., T. Kuzmanić (ed.): Nation-States and Xenophobias: In the Ruins of Former Yugoslavia. Mirovni inštitut, Inštitut za sodobne družbene in politične študije, Ljubljana, 2005, pp. 43 - 59.

Bajt, Veronika: Slovenian Nationalism, In: Sprawy Narodowosciowe (Nationalities Affairs), 2004, 24-25, pp. 9 – 30.

Bajt, Veronika: Invisible Nationalism: How National Rituals Perpetuate National Identity, In: Kapralski, S., S.C. Pearce (ed.): Reformulations: Markets, Policies, and Identities in Central and Eastern Europe. CEU, IFiS Publishers, Warsaw, 2000, pp. 183 - 202.

Whole bibliography (Cobiss)