Rory Archer, Author at To the Northwest!

The entrepreneurial spirit of Poreč’s old town in the 1980s (notes from the field)

December 21, 2021May 14, 2021 by Rory Archer

For the month of May 2021 I am finally able to undertake oral history interviews with Albanians living and working in Istria. While the pandemic has upended research plans for many colleagues, the combination of vaccine-induced antibodies and warmer weather has enabled me to start speaking with individuals about their life experiences (notwithstanding the usual …

Gendered aspects of Albanian migration in Croatia (1988 and 2020)

November 9, 2022November 24, 2020 by Rory Archer

‘The main green market in Split: A market of Albanian labourers’ (Nedjeljna Dalmacija,1988)

A recent article in Balkan Insight penned by Fjori Sinoruka and Mare Knezević explores the position of Albanian women migrants in Croatia. In ‘Struggling to be Seen: In Croatia, Albanian Women Fight Prejudice, Patriarchal Norms,’ the authors cite Belgium-based journalist Augustin Palokaj who previously lived in Croatia. He describes how Croatia was a window for …

Introduction: Developing the research project

November 9, 2022November 7, 2020 by Rory Archer

The idea for a project exploring the social history of Yugoslav Albanians during socialism generally, and the experience of migration in the socialist republics of Slovenia and Croatia in particular, first emerged during a previous research project, Between class and nation: Working class communities in 1980s Serbia and Montenegro (FWF project no: P27008) In the …