Marina Lažetić

Marina Lažetić is a scholar of forced displacement and border governance and the Director of Programs at the Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University. Her research examines civil society organizing in response to migration — including migrant solidarity and assistance initiatives, as well as anti-immigrant movements — alongside the politics of EU and US border regimes and climate- and environment-related displacement.

Throughout her academic and professional career, she has engaged with issues of migration, nationalism, armed conflict, and human security. Before joining Boston University, Marina worked at the Feinstein International Center, the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, and the Open Society Foundations.

She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, where her dissertation investigates civil society organizing in the US–Mexico and Hungary–Serbia borderlands, analyzing how local actors navigate, contest, and reshape contemporary border regimes.