IEA

Fellowship time: January to June 2010

Research Project:
"Mobility and Alterity: postcommunist figures "

Abstract:

Democracy, market economy, civil society - that is the triple essence of the post-communist transition. R. Darhendorf draw up the schedule: six months to democratic institutions, six years for the transition to a market economy, six decades to build a strong civil society, independent and vital. All these priorities present the transition from the perspective of the State. The perspective of citizens can be summarized in three words: migration, migration, and migration. Many post -communist people (from one tenth to third in each country) chose to separate their projects from those of their States, the vote by the feet precedes and always takes precedence over that in the polls, the networks were more efficient than the institutions and the individual temporalities were moved away from the state temporalities. The migration was one of the freedoms consumed with the greatest pleasure and greed. It provides a better understanding of a major sociological phenomenon: the emergence of the image of the post-communist individualistic which is no more shaped and guided by the community and socializing authorities, but whose centre is in itself, which claims its role as a player and is less inspired by the public good and large social issues than it is by its own project, its desire for self-fulfilment, his determination to live in his own time without paying for the slowness of reforms.
The purpose of the project is to analyze the post-communist migration in the triple perspective of national and European policies, migratory projects of post-communist citizens and immigrants who induce a new territoriality in the region left by its own citizens.

Biographical elements:

Anna Krasteva heads the political science department, the French branch of political science and the Center for Migration Studies of New Bulgarian University (Sofia). She has several international scientific responsibilities including: editor-in-chief of the journal Southeastern Europe, member of the International Scientific Committee of the Network of MSH; Board Member of International Association of French Language Sociologists (1996-2004), member of Committee International Scientific Institute of Central, Eastern and Balkan University of Bologna.
Her research interests cover the post-communist transition, immigration, ethnicity, citizenship, political discourse.

Anna Krasteva is doctor honoris causa in the University Lille 3. 

Publications

20 edited and individual books, more than 100 papers at international conferences and articles in books and journals, published in Bulgaria, France, Belgium, Great Britain, Russia, Switzerland, US, Germany, Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Slovakia, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, Romania.

Books:
Krasteva A., A.Kasabova, D. Karabonova (eds) Migrations from and to Southeastern Europe. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2010.
Krasteva A. et A.Todorov (dir) L’engagement citoyen. Sofia: NUB, 2009.
Krasteva A. (ed) Immigration and integration: European experiences. Sofia: Manfred Worner Foundation, 2008.
Krasteva, A. and Tolia Stoytzeva (dir). First year European Bulgaria: elections and images. Sofia : NUB, 2008 (in bulgarian)
Krasteva, A. and A. Todorov (dir) Local elections 2007. Sofia : NUB, 2008 (in bulgarian)
Krasteva A., A. Todorov, K. Hristova (dir) Francophonie et intégration européenne. Sofia: NUB, 2007.
Krasteva A. and F. Privitera (eds) Democratisation in postcommunist transition processes in the 90s: lights and shadows. Ravenna: Longo Editore. 2006.
Krasteva, A. (ed) Portraits of refugees. Sofia: NBU, 2006. (in bulgarian)
Krasteva A. et A. Todorov (dir) Modernisation, démocratisation, européanisation: la Bulgarie et la Roumanie comparée". Sofia : NUB, 2005.
Krasteva, A. (ed) Immigration in Bulgaria. Sofia: IMIR, 2005. (in bulgarian)
Krasteva, A. et A. Todorov (dir) Conflits, confiance, démocratie. Sofia : NUB, 2004.
Krasteva, A. (ed) From ethnicity to migration. Sofia: NBU, 2004 (in bulgarian)
Krasteva, A. et A. Todorov (Dir) La mondialisation et les nouvelles limites du politique. Sofia : EON2000, 2004.