Iva Dodevska is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Brussels School of Governance. She won the Maria Ioannis Baganha Dissertation Award 2024 at the IMISCOE2024 conference with her outstanding dissertation, “Europe and Its Others: Migrant Integration in Research and Policy.”

Iva holds a BA in Journalism Studies from the University of Skopje and an MA (with honours) in Ethnic and Minority Studies from Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest. Her research interests include migration and integration policy, European Union politics, knowledge production, race and ethnicity as social constructs, nationalism, and colonial history. As a Marie Curie fellow in the project MOVES, Iva is based at Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 and Charles University. Her doctoral research draws on critical, decolonial and post-structuralist approaches to examine the role of scientific research, EU policy, and research-policy knowledge infrastructures in shaping the governance of “immigrant integration” in Europe. Seeking to understand “integration” as both a political problem and an object of scientific fascination, her research investigates how integration is debated, regulated, monitored, and ultimately normalized at supranational (EU) level and through science-policy collaboration.

Iva taught the course “Critical Approaches to Mobility and Diversity Politics in Europe” at the Department of Political Science at CU. She is the guest editor (with M. Nimer) of a forthcoming special issue in the journal Migration Studies, titled “Towards Reflexivity in the Study of Mobility and Diversity”. She spent brief research stays at Brown University (2022) and the University of Neuchâtel (2023) and has (co)organized several panels, workshops, and a conference. She is currently a board member of the IMISCOE Standing Committee “Reflexive Migration Studies”.

Academic Publications

Iva Dodevska. “Boundary Integrationism and Its Subject: Shifts and Continuities in the EU Framework on Migrant Integration.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (14 August 2023).

Iva Dodevska. “The Genealogy of Integrationism: Ideational Foundations of the Politics of Immigrant Integration.” Frontiers in Political Science 5 (2023).

Iva Dodevska. “The Architecture of Race in the British Immigration and Citizenship Regime: The Figure of the Undesirable ‘Other.'” Journal of Identity and Migration Studies 15: 2 (Autumn/Winter 2021).

Iva Dodevska. “The ‘Self’ And The ‘Other’ In Postcolonial Britain: Towards A Genealogy Of The British Immigration Regime.” The Migration Conference 2020 Proceedings: Migration and Politics. Transnational Press London: 2020.

Conference Presentations

“Reproducing Hegemonic Structures? A Critical Review of Current Paradigms in Migration Research.” 17th IMISCOE Annual Conference: Crossing borders, connecting cultures, University of Luxembourg, 1-3 July 2020.

“The ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’ in Postcolonial Britain: Towards a Genealogy of the British Immigration Regime.” The Migration Conference 2020, South-East European University, Tetovo, 9-11 September 2020.

“Epistemic Racism? The Conspicuous Absence of Race in Migration Research.” PSA Annual Conference 2021 (SG Race, Migration and Intersectionality), Queen’s University Belfast, 29-31 March 2021.

“The Coloniality of Integrationism: Mapping ‘Immigrant Integration’ Research.”   PSA Conference 2022, University of York, 10-13 April 2022.

“Constructing Knowledge on Integration in EU Policy and Academic Research.” MOVES End-of-Project Conference, FU Berlin, 14-17 June 2022.

“The Coloniality of Integrationism: The Co-production of Knowledge on Immigrant Integration in EU Policy and Academic Research.” 19th IMISCOE Annual Conference, Oslo MET, 29 June-1 July 2022.

“The Crisis of Integrationism: The Normativity of Immigrant Integration (Research)” (with Stefan Manser-Egli), ESA RN35 Sociology of Migration, University Federico II, Naples, March 2023.