Research: Is Rijeka a multicultural city?

Museum of Modern and Contemporary in Rijeka, within EU project Risk Change, conducts field research in cooperation with researchers – Barbara Matejčić, freelance journalist, and Drago Župarić-Iljić, sociologist from The Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (Zagreb). Through this research, which will take place through interviews and converstaions with individuals and groups, we will deal with a broad spectrum of migration, and we’ll try to answer the question: Is Rijeka a multicultural city?

Within this research we invite all those who for any reason moved / migrated to Rijeka, from 1940’s until today, as well as those who spent particular part of their working life outside of Croatia, in which they eventually returned. We are inviting all interested individuals to participate in conversation with researchers who will be collecting different expectations and results of the citizens of Rijeka and foreigners in Rijeka who has the experience of migrations. The research will be held douring February 2017. Participants will be additionaly informed about the course of the research.

We are kindly asking everyone interested to send via e-mail this informations:

  • name
  • surname
  • age
  • sex
  • profession
  • place of origin
  • year of coming to Rijeka
  • reason for coming to Rijeka
  • status (citizenship or temporary/permanent stay)
  • contact: e-mail and mobile phone

After the collected data, selection of candidates will be made according to the mentioned socio-demographic characteristics and variables of candidates. Individuals who will not be selected for the participation in the research, we’ll try to include in various other formats of participation in the project – workshops, lectures, touring guides, etc.

Everyone interested in this open call should apply until January 20th, 2017, on e-mail: marina.tkalcic@mmsu.hr, or by phone on: +385 (0)91 548 9427.

RISK CHANGE (RC) is a project co-financed by EU program – Creative Europe. During four years (July 1st, 2016 – May 31st, 2020) the project is going to work on creating, connecting, comparing, and promoting of European contemporary interdisciplinary arts connected with social studies, applied sciences and migrations. The goal is building of networks and inter-connectedness between migrants and local residents, striveing towards integration of cultural diversity connected with contemporary processes of migrations and constant social and cultural change in 21st century.