Return Migration and its Consequences in Southeast Europe

Biographical notes

Lumnije Jusufi (Volume editor) Rozita Dimova (Volume editor) Jasna Čapo (Volume editor)

Jasna Čapo (PhD University of California Berkeley, 1990) is Research Advisor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb and Titular Professor at the University of Zagreb. She has a multi-disciplinary background in ethnology, cultural anthropology, demography, and French language and literature. She was a post-doctoral fellow in Strasbourg and Vienna; Humboldt Fellow in Munich, Berlin, and Tübingen; visiting professor at Universities of Vienna, Ljubljana, Aix-en-Provence, Toulouse, and Tübingen among other. Rozita Dimova (PhD Stanford University, 2004) is a Social Anthropologist. She has held research positions at prominent institutions, including the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (2003-2006), Free and Humboldt Universities in Berlin (2007-2015), and served as an Associate Professor in Southeast European Studies at Ghent University in Belgium (2013-2020). A Founding and Permanent Board Member at the Center for Advanced and Interdisciplinary Research in Skopje, North Macedonia, she is currently also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Kőszeg, Hungary. Lumnije Jusufi (PhD Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 2009, Habilitation Humboldt-University of Berlin, 2021) is an Albanologist and Linguist. She was a doctoral and post-doctoral fellow in Munich, and a Humboldt Fellow in Tirana. She approaches migration studies through sociolinguistics. Her doctoral thesis was in Dialectology and Area Linguistics on Albanian in North Macedonia; her habilitation thesis on the influence of the state border on the region of Dibra (Albania-North Macedonia).