Ass.-Prof. Dr. Ana Mijic, M.A.
Ana Mijic

News: 
Jetzt mitmachen! Das Volkstheater sucht gemeinsam mit Ana Miji? und Michael Parzer nach Ihren „Mythen des Alltags“

https://www.soz.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_soziologie/5_Ueber_uns/5.2_Meldungen/2025/Flyer_Mythen_des_Alltags_Final.pdf

Interview in Der Standard:

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000294079/migrantenkind-zwischen-leistungsdruck-und-dem-gefuehl-nie-dazuzugehoeren

Seminar Series talk: 'Creating Identity out of War and Migration' at CEU's Sociology Department:

https://events.ceu.edu/2025-11-10/seminar-series-talk-creating-identity-out-war-and-migration-ana-mijic-sladana-adamovic

IWM Public Lectures Series with Rogers Brubaker: Gender Identity - A Quiet Revolution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z69xu8oMaQ

Interview in Die Presse:

https://www.diepresse.com/20141380/bosnische-identitaeten-in-wien-und-in-chicago

Gastbeitrag Rudolphina Road Trips:

https://rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/how-the-15-generation-is-building-its-identity-in-chicago-and-vienna

Consultation hours: Office hours by appointment

Academic Positions

Seit 01/2025
Universität Wien, Institut für Soziologie, Tenure Track Professur für Qualitative Sozialforschung

Seit 01/2022
Visiting Professor, Nationalism Studies Program, CEU

2021-2023
Universität Wien, Institut für Soziologie, Senior Postdoc

Seit 2019
Redaktionsmitglied der Österreichischen Zeitschrift für Soziologie

01/2016-03/2021
Universität Wien, Institut für Soziologie, Hertha-Firnberg Forschungsstelle

2016-2017
Elternzeit

03/2015-12/2015
Universität Wien, Marie-Jahoda Forschungsstelle

2014-2015
Universität Salzburg, Lehrbeauftragte

Seit 2014
Universität Wien, Lehrbeauftragte

2013-2014
Elternzeit

09/2012-06/2013
IFK Fellow Abroad am Trinity College Dublin, Long Room Hub, Visiting Researcher

10/2011-06/2012
Fellow am Internationalen Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaft, IFK

11/2007-10/2011
Universität Wien, Institut für Soziologie, Assistentin

06/2006-10/2007
Doktorandin an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal (Prof. Dr. Martin Endreß)

09/2005-10/2007
Berghof-Foundation, Tübingen, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

2004
Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung Baden-Württemberg, freie Mitarbeiterin

2003-2008
Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie, ehrenamtliche Projektmitarbeit

Prizes

Back-to-Research Grant der Universität Wien

Mijic, A. (Recipient), Mar 2015

Dissertationspreis der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie

Mijic, A. (Recipient), 2015

Doc.Award der Universität Wien

Mijic, A. (Recipient), 2015

Förderpreis der Dr. Maria Schaumayer-Stiftung

Mijic, A. (Recipient), 2014

Hertha-Firnberg Forschungsstelle

Mijic, A. (Recipient), 2015

IFK Fellowship Abroad

Mijic, A. (Recipient), Sept 2012

IFK Junior_Fellowship

Mijic, A. (Recipient), Oct 2011

René König-Lehrbuchpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie

Mijic, A. (Recipient), 2010

Press/Media

Außenseiter

Mijic, A.

20/10/21

1 Media contribution

Ex-Jugoslawen in Wien: Schon lange keine Feinde mehr

Mijic, A.

27/06/21

1 Media contribution

Kosmopolitski nacionalizam dijaspore

Mijic, A.

29/08/17

1 item of Media coverage

Nachkriegs-Diaspora(s) in Österreich

Mijic, A.

5/04/17

1 item of Media coverage

Nije dobro da stalno imamo osjećaj kako smo pod promatranjem!

Mijic, A.

6/12/20

1 Media contribution

Ranjeni identiteti Bosne i Hercegovine

Mijic, A.

29/03/15

1 item of Media coverage

Trotzdem an den Frieden glauben?

Mijic, A.

31/03/22

1 item of Media coverage

U BiH nitko vise ne gine, a svi umiru

Mijic, A.

18/05/17

1 item of Media coverage

Verzeihen und Versöhnen

Mijic, A.

19/05/18

1 Media contribution

Was bringt das Schweigen

Mijic, A.

11/07/15

1 item of Media coverage

Wie geht Frieden?

Mijic, A.

7/12/16

1 item of Media coverage

Wien, die letzte jugoslawische Stadt

Mijic, A.

6/11/24

1 Media contribution

Wir und die anderen - FWF Projekt der Woche

Mijic, A.

7/08/17

1 Media contribution

Ana Mijic

Tenure track professor

  • Department of Sociology
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Parzer, M., & Mijic, A. (2024). Continuity or Change? How Migrants’ Musical Activities (Do not) Affect Ethnic Boundaries. In W. Sievers (Ed.), Cultural Change in Post-Migrant Societies: Re-Imagining Communities Through Arts and Cultural Activities Springer.

Mijic, A., Parzer, M., Tkalich, O., & Zolotarova, Y. (2024). Experiencing forced migration: challenges of arriving after displacement from Ukraine. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(14), 3396-3414. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2024.2323666


Parzer, M., Mijic, A., & Bock, L. (2024). Was man von hier aus (nicht) sehen kann. Transdisziplinäre Fluchtforschung an der Schnittstelle von Soziologie und Fotografie. In B. Völter, M. R. Müller, & L. Inowlocki (Eds.), Bild und Biographie (pp. 151-164). Budrich Academic Press.





Mijic, A. (2022). Fragile Herkunft: Zugehörigkeit im Kontext von Krieg und Migration. In W. Sievers, R. Bauböck, I. Josipovic, D. Karabegović, & K. Shinozaki (Eds.), Jenseits der Migrantologie : Aktuelle Herausforderungen und neue Perspektiven der Migrationsforschung Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW).


Mijic, A., & Parzer, M. (2021). Um/Brüche symbolischer Ordnungen - Negative Klassifikationen im Zuge Alma Zadićs Angelobung als österreichische Justizministerin. In S. Lenz, & M. Hasenfratz (Eds.), Capitalism unbound: Ökonomie, Ökologie, Kultur (pp. 311-326). Campus.

Mijic, A. (2021). “Wir” und “Ich” im gesellschaftlichen Umbruch. Identitäten im (Nach-)Krieg. In Vereint im Stolz. : Fußball, Nation und Identität im Postjugoslawischen Raum (pp. 68-75). Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.


Mijic, A., Pohn-Lauggas, M., & Reinprecht, C. (2020). „Ich bin ja aus Bosnien…“: Ausschluss- und Anerkennungserfahrungen einer postmigrantischen Jugendlichen in Wien. In Wege in die Zukunft: Lebenssituationen Jugendlicher am Ende der Neuen Mittelschule (pp. 277-301). Wiener Universitätsverlag.

Mijic, A. (2020). (Non-)Belonging in the Context of War and Migration: Reconstructing the Self-Examinations of a 1.5 Generation Refugee. In E. Bahl, & J. Becker (Eds.), Global Processes of Flight and Migration : The Explanatory Power of Case Studies (pp. 185-200). Universitätsverlag Göttingen. https://doi.org/10.17875/gup2020-1320

Binder, W., & Mijic, A. (2020). "We Are Jewish and We Want to Help You": Righteous Cross-Group Solidarity Toward Muslim Refugees in Vienna. In C. Tognato, B. N. Jaworsky, & J. C. Alexander (Eds.), The Courage for Civil Repair: Narrating the Righteous in International Migration (pp. 61-89). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44590-4_3

Mijic, A. (2019). Grenzen des Verstehens? Verstehen der Grenzen? In M. Roslon, & R. Bettmann (Eds.), Interkulturelle Qualitative Sozialforschung (pp. 87-108). Springer VS.


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Creating Identity out of War and Migration

Mijic, A. (Project Lead)

1/02/2531/01/28

Project: Research funding


The Art of Arriving: Reframing 'Refugee Integration'

Parzer, M. (Project Lead), Mijic, A. (Scientific Project Staff), Tkalich, O. (Scientific Project Staff), Zolotarova, Y. (Scientific Project Staff) & Bock-Oswald, L. (Scientific Project Staff)

1/04/2131/03/24

Project: Research funding


Pathways to the Future - The Social Integration of Young People in Vienna

Flecker, J. (Project Lead), Astleithner, F. (Scientific Project Staff), Jesser, A. (Co-Lead), Kazepov, Y. A. K. (Co-Lead), Kogler, R. (Scientific Project Staff), Malschinger, P. (Scientific Project Staff), Mataloni, B. (Scientific Project Staff), Mijic, A. (Co-Lead), Molina Xaca, C. (Scientific Project Staff), Neuhauser, J. (Co-Lead), Parzer, M. (Co-Lead), Petrik, T. (Scientific Project Staff), Pohn-Lauggas, M. (Co-Lead), Reinprecht, C. (Co-Lead), Schels, B. K. (Co-Lead), Schlechter, M. (Scientific Project Staff), Schmidt, A. (Scientific Project Staff), Steiber, N. (Co-Lead), Valls Casas, O. (Scientific Project Staff), Vogl, S. (Co-Lead), Wöhrer, V. (Co-Lead), Zartler, U. (Co-Lead) & Rieder, I. (Admin)

1/12/1631/12/22

Project: Research cooperation


Nachkriegs-Diaspora(s): Kosmopo

Mijic, A. (Project Lead)

30/06/1531/03/21

Project: Research funding


Bridging Art and Sociology: A Transdisciplinary and Participatory Approach to Refugees’ Experiences of Arrival

Mijic, A. (Speaker), Parzer, M. (Speaker), Tkalich, O. (Speaker) & Zolotarova, Y. (Speaker)

8 Apr 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Art in/of Researching Arrival in Postmigrant Societies: Decentring Migration Studies

Parzer, M. (Speaker) & Mijic, A. (Speaker)

24 Mar 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Art of Arriving: Reframing Refugee Integration

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

30 Jan 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ukrainian Un/Certainties: The Impact of Displacement on Host and Home Societies

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

14 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


The Art of Researching Arriving: Methodological Considerations on the Strategy of Decentering

Parzer, M. (Speaker), Mijic, A. (Speaker), Tkalich, O. (Contributor) & Zolotarova, Y. (Contributor)

19 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Die Kunst des Ankommens. Projektvorstellung

Parzer, M. (Speaker) & Mijic, A. (Speaker)

27 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Die Kunst des Ankommens

Mijic, A. (Speaker) & Parzer, M. (Speaker)

7 Dec 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Art of Arriving: Reframing 'Refugee Integration' Through Literature

Parzer, M. (Speaker) & Mijic, A. (Speaker)

28 Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Leaving Ukraine – Arriving in Austria: Examining the Challenges of Forced Migration

Parzer, M. (Speaker), Mijic, A. (Speaker), Tkalich, O. (Speaker) & Zolotarova, Y. (Speaker)

2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Die Kunst des Ankommens: Transdisziplinarität und Partizipation als Mittel einer reflexiven Migrationsforschung

Parzer, M. (Speaker), Mijic, A. (Speaker) & Bock, L. (Speaker)

27 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Art Of Arriving: Ankommen im Kontext globaler Krisen und lokaler Dynamiken

Mijic, A. (Speaker), Parzer, M. (Speaker) & Bock, L. (Speaker)

26 Sept 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The Art Of Arriving: "Refugee Integration" Through The Lens Of Artistic Practices

Parzer, M. (Speaker), Mijic, A. (Speaker) & Bock, L. (Speaker)

1 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How migrants’ musical activities (do not) affect ethnic boundaries

Parzer, M. (Speaker) & Mijic, A. (Speaker)

8 Jul 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Identität und Zugehörigkeit wissenssoziologisch fundiert

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

26 Mar 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Shades of (Non)belonging—Symbolic Boundaries within and around the Bosnian Diaspora(s) in Austria

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

23 Feb 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Dimensionen der (Nicht-)Zugehörigkeit

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

18 Sept 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Narrative der (Nicht-)Zugehörigkeit.

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

17 Sept 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Zugehörigkeit(en) nach Krieg und Migration

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

28 May 202029 May 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Biographies in conflict: Creating belonging after forced migration

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

28 Nov 201930 Nov 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Bosnian Diaspora(s) between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism? A Social Constructivist Approach to Diasporic Postwar Identities

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

22 Aug 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Biographies in Conflict

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

22 May 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Identitäten im (Nach-)Krieg

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

13 May 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Lost in Migration? Narratives of (non-)Belonging of Diasporic Identities

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

2018 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Together but Separate. Symbolic and Social Boundaries in an Ex-Yugoslavian Viennese Neighborhood.

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

2018 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Reibungsgewinne. Identitäten im Inner[Außer]Halb

Mijic, A. (Speaker) & Frühwirth, A. (Speaker)

Oct 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Exil in der österreichischen Gesellschaft

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

27 Sept 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Ursachen und Herausforderungen des Nationalismus in Bosnien-Herzegowina

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

3 Apr 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


An die Grenzen des Selbst. Identität & Diaspora

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Der Nachkrieg in Bosnien-Herzegowina. Weit entfernt von "Verzeihen-Versöhnen-Vergessen"

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

2016

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther





Hurt Identities? The Postwar Bosnian Narrative of Self-Victimization

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

Mar 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Verletzte Identitäten? Selbstviktimisierung als Deutungsmuster einer Nachkriegsgesellschaft

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

Feb 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


The Balkans as "the other Europe" - Maria Todorova's Concept of Balkanism

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

Nov 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Memory and Identity Transformation in the Post-War Balkans

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

Oct 2012 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


"Wir haben uns nur verteidigt..." - Schutz der eigenen Identität durch Selbstviktimisierung

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

Mar 2012

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Verletzte Identitäten? Zur Transformation von Deutungsmustern in einer Nachkriegsgesellschaft

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

20 Nov 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Zur Analyse von Deutungsmustern in Bosnien und Herzegowina des Nachkriegs

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

12 Oct 2010

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Emotions in Post-War Situations

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

18 Dec 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Emotions and Ethnicity

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

4 Sept 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Überlegungen zur Analyse von Deutungsmustern in einer Nachkriegsgesellschaft

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

11 Dec 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


"Hurt Identities?" - Transformation of Patterns of Interpretation in an Post-War Society

Mijic, A. (Speaker)

16 Jul 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Winter term 2025
230040 UE B7 Objective Hermeneutics - Methods of Interpretative Social Research (Exercise)
230144 UE M6 Myths of Everyday Life - Sociological Specialisation of Choice
Summer term 2025
230040 UE Objective Hermeneutics - Methods of Interpretative Social Research (Exercise)

Department of Sociology

Rooseveltplatz 2
1090 Wien
Room: R.305

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ana.mijic@univie.ac.at