Anteja Tomašič
Assistant
Anteja Tomašič is a research assistant at the Peace Institute. She is also a PhD student in sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, and a research assistant at the Centre for Spatial Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences. In 2019, she obtained her master’s degree in archeology at the University of Zadar, focusing on Late Antique migrations.
Since 2016, she has been actively cooperating with the refugee community in Ljubljana. She is interested in topics of integration, informal ways of connecting, and self-advocacy. She worked in the International Office at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ljubljana, and in the NGO Društvo Odnos, where she provided various support to persons under international protection. At the Centre for Spatial Sociology, she has been working on projects about migrations. As part of a project at the Peace Institute, she has been researching housing issues of persons under international protection.
Featured project
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Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity in Europe “From Below”: Local Initiatives, Intersectional Strategies and Transnational Networks [ECSEuro]
The research project takes up the question of how new approaches can be identified at the local scale vis-à-vis the longstanding challenges for Europe to establish cross-border cooperation.
Featured publication
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Book / Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity: Urban Struggles on Migration, Housing and Care in Europe
Drawing on ethnographic research in eleven European cities, the book explores how local initiatives and activist organising create new forms of solidarity and enact citizenship through everyday practices.
