title: Introduction
abstract: This introduction presents an overview of the history of migration within the Southern Balkan region since the end of Ottoman rule, in this way providing a broader context for the individual contributions. The existing literature on migration within the region since the Ottoman period consists of two main and separate bodies of literature: one deals with forced migration in the service of nation-building and the other with post-war labour migration in the context of globalization. Given the comp
journal: IMISCOE research series