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Sara Bernard is a lecturer in societal transformations at the University of Glasgow, having joined the Centre for European and Eurasian Studies (CEES) in January 2020. She previously taught at Goldsmiths, University of London. She holds a PhD from the University of Bologna and the University of Regensburg since 2016. Bernard has held a research fellowship at the Centre for South East European Studies at the University of Graz and has spent significant time studying and researching in Madrid, Belgrade, and Zagreb. Her research focuses on social history and international migration in the twentieth century, particularly during the Cold War period in South Eastern Europe. Her doctoral project examined the return of Gastarbeiter to socialist Yugoslavia, culminating in a book published by Harrassowitz in 2019. She coordinates the Working Group on Labour Migration History as part of the European Labour History Network, and in 2019, she became a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Bernard's primary research interests lie in the history of migration in the Yugoslav region during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, exploring the complexities and impacts of migration practices and transnational networks on Yugoslav nation-building.