PristupačnostMonika Balija
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doc. dr. sc. Monika Balija
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Teaching
undergraduate
- Contemporary International Migration (239762) - Lecturer in charge, Lecturer in charge
- Croatian Diaspora and Entire Development (269747) - Lecturer in charge
- Demography 2 (194395) - Lecturer in charge
- Famous Croats Worldwide (226933) - Lecturer in charge, Lecturer in charge
- Population Policy (269767) - Lecturer in charge
- Public services and population (194399) - Lecturer in charge
Biography
Monika Balija was born on November 5th 1993 in Koprivnica. After graduating from elementary and high school, she enrolled in the Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Study in History and Geography (course: education) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Department of History. She graduated from the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Department of Geography, on September 29th 2017, thereby completing the Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate Study Programme and earning a master’s degree in history and geography; course: education (mag. educ. hist. et geogr.). The title of her thesis was The Historical and Demographic Development of Koprivnica. Later that same year, in 2017, she enrolled in the Postgraduate University Doctoral Study in Geography: Space, Region, Environment, Landscape at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Department of Geography. In accordance with her primary field of scientific interest, she attended the Population Studies study module, where she directed her intellectual curiosity toward population migrations, i.e. the recent trend of emigration from Republic of Croatia. She successfully graduated from University of Zagreb on December 22nd 2020, thereby completing the Postgraduate University Doctoral Study Programme and earning a PhD in the Interdisciplinary sciences; Scientific Field of Geography. Her doctoral dissertation was titled The New Croatian Emigration Paradigm. She was elected an associate by the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, on May 26th 2021, thereby filling the postdoctoral position in the Demographic Field of Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Croatian Studies, Department of Demography and Croatian Diaspora. On April 28th 2025 she was elected an assistant professor in the Demographic Field of Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Croatian Studies, Department of Demography and Croatian Diaspora. During and after her postgraduate studies, she published several scientific and professional papers, held several presentations at domestic and international scientific conferences in Croatia and abroad, and participated as an associate or leader in several scientific projects. Her scientific interest is moderated towards general demography, external migration of the Republic of Croatia in the modern period, contemporary Croatian emigration and the population of Podravina. Since 2024, she has been the managing editor of the scientific journal Kroatologija.
Identification number of the scientist: 403516
Scientific publications (CroRIS)
Croats in Bavaria - Demographic Characteristics and Intentions to Return to the Republic of Croatia
Contemporary Migration Patterns of the City of Zagreb: Emigrants, Foreign Workers and Potential Returnees
Migration processes between Germany and Croatia: the return of the first and second generation of Croatian emigrants to Bavaria?
Obujam i intenzitet iseljavanja te namjera, percepcija i uvjetovanost povratka u domovinu iseljenih iz Hrvatske u Austriju nakon 2013. godine
Demographic Development of Virovitica in Relation to the 2011 and 2021 Population Censuses
Croats in Germany – Two-Way Mobility and Return Practices
DEMOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE PODRAVINA REGION IN LIGHT OF THE 2021 CENSUS
Political-national identifications of Croatian labor migrants in Western Europe with special reference to the 1983 elections to the Foreigners’ Advisory Council of the Stuttgart City Council
Contemporary Demographic Development of the City of Zagreb with Special Reference to External Migration
Akademik Dragutin Feletar i istraživanje stanovništva Podravine
Emigracijski i imigracijski izazovi Republike Hrvatske nakon 2013. godine
CONTEMPORARY DOOM OF GASTARBAITER'S HERITAGE OF CROATIA
Croats in Sweden - historical and contemporary aspects of emigration
Motives, Factors, and Finality of Return Migration from Germany to Croatia
Percepcija višeuvjetovanosti suvremenih migracija prema Hrvatskoj u kontekstu sigurnosti prostora i stanovništva
Contemporary Demographic Processes as a Condition of (Un)sustainability of the Pension System of the Republic of Croatia
Povratak Hrvata iz Savezne Republike Njemačke: stvarnost ili utopija?
Contemporary Migration Processes between Koprivnica and Federal Republic of Germany
Namjera, percepcija i uvjetovanost povratka u domovinu - iskustva iseljenih iz Republike Hrvatske u recentnom iseljeničkom valu
Silina suvremenog iseljavanja iz Republike Hrvatske – pregled domaće i inozemne statistike
Intention, Perception and Conditioning of Return to the Homeland - Experiences of Emigrants from the Republic of Croatia in the Recent Emigration Wave
Croatia's Current Migration Balance
Proportions of Recent Exodus from Croatia – Analysis of Official Statistical Data from Croatia and from the Countries to Which Croatian Population Immigrated
The New Emigrant Paradigm of Croatia
Silina suvremenog iseljavanja iz Republike Hrvatske – pregled domaće i inozemne statistike
Emigration – question of development and/or safety?
Historical-demographic development of Koprivnica city
Settlement of Koprivnica - Temporary Demographic Challenges