Julija Sardelic

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Julija is Director of the Migration Studies Programme and Senior Lecturer at the Political Science and International Relations Programme (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), where she teaches courses on (forced) migration, nationalism and critical study of human rights.

She is an author of two books: The Fringes of Citizenship (MUP, 2021) and Refugee Protection Crises and Transit Europe (Springer, 2025).

Before joining Victoria University of Wellington, she was a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at the University of Leuven, where she worked on a project entitled "Invisible Edges of Citizenship: Re-Addressing the Position of Roma in Europe". Prior to that, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute and a CITSEE Research Fellow at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh.

Her research encompasses broader themes of citizenship and migration, but she particularly focuses on the legal status of marginalized and vulnerable minorities in Europe (Romani minorities, refugees, legally invisible and stateless persons).

Experience

  • 2019–present
    (Senior) Lecturer , Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington
  • 2026–present
    Director of Migration Studies Programme, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington
  • 2017–2020
    Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Leuven, Belgium
  • 2016–2017
    Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool
  • 2014–2016
    Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute
  • 2012–2014
    Research Fellow, School of Law, University of Edinburgh

Education

  • 2013 
    University of Ljubljana, PhD In Sociology
  • 2011 
    Central European University, MA in Nationalism Studies with Distiction

Publications

  • 2025
    Refugee Protection Crisis and Transit Europe, Springer
  • 2025
    Shifting Racialised Borders and the Right to Exit Within Europe , International Migration
  • 2021
    The Fringes of Citizenship, Manchester University Press

Grants and Contracts

  • 2017
    Marie Sklodowska-Curie Intra-European Fellowship
    Role:
    Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow
    Funding Source:
    European Commission
  • 2015
    Centre for Advanced Studies - South Eastern Europe Visiting Fellowship
    Role:
    Visiting Fellow
    Funding Source:
    CAS SEE

Professional Memberships

  • Member of IMISCOE (International Migration Research Network)
  • Member of Migration and Citizenship Research Committee at IPSA (International Political Science Association)

Contact Julija for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision