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Barbara Gornik, PhD

Barbara Gornik, PhD

Senior Research Associate

Bibliographic research performance and CRIS

Research Interests

  • Anthropology of human rights
  • Migration
  • Nationalism
  • Activism

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska, 2008

PhD in Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska, 2016

Employment

Senior Research Associate, ZRS Koper, 2008–

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, 2024–

Positions and Memberships

Member of the Standing Expert Body of the Council for Humanities at the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS), 2021–

Member of the Slovenian Sociological Association, 2016–

Member of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, 2016–

Member of the European Sociological Association, 2023–2024

Member of the European Consortium for Political Research, 2022–2023

Delegate to the General Assembly of the Nordic Summer University, 2016–2019

Awards and Achievements

Glasnik Znanosti Award for Promising Young Researchers, 2021

Slovenian Sociological Association Award for Research Group Achievement, 2020

Glasnik Znanosti Award for Special Achievements by Research Groups, 2019

Projects

Asylum policymaking: affective states and emotional dimensions (A-MOTION), ARIS research project, 2024–2027, Principal Investigator

Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union: An Anthropological Perspective, Jean Monnet Action project (European Commission), 2024–2027, Co-Coordinator

Freedom of Opinion and Expression through Narratives of a State of Emergency: An Anthropological Study of Slovenian (Anti-)Democratic Consciousness during the COVID-19 Epidemic, ARIS fundamental research project, 2021–2025, Principal Investigator

Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe (MiCREATE), Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation project (European Commission), 2019–2022, Co-Coordinator

Borderlands: Areas of Cultural and Social Coexistence in an Age of Risk and Vulnerability, ARIS Research Programme, 2008–, Researcher

Selected Publications

Gornik, B., Medarić, Z. and M. Sedmak: The Oxford Handbook of Child-centered Approaches and Migrant Children. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gornik, B. A child-centred asylum policy: building on evidence and unaccompanied asylum-seeking children’s views. Children & Society. 2023, 37(6): 2154–2170.

Gornik, B. Transcending non-citizenship?: looking at asylum policy through the lens of a child-centred approach and the procedural justice perspective. Citizenship Studies. 2022, 26(7): 978–994.

Gornik, B. The dark side of the moon: nationalism, human rights, and the erased residents of Slovenia. Nationalities Papers. 2019; 47(3): 477–491.

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