Dr. Ivan Josipovic, MA, MSc

Researcher

Ivan Josipovic is currently a guest researcher in the research area Digital Public Governance at the Department of Political Science, University of Zurich. He will return to the University of Vienna in September 2027. His project VALOSINT is funded by the Erwin Schrödinger Program of the Austrian Science Fund. Ivan completed his PhD at the University of Vienna in 2024 and was a visiting fellow at ETH Zurich in 2023.

His previous work has focused on the production of digital evidence through smartphone screenings in European asylum governance. He has published in leading journals in International Relations, Political Science, and Migration Studies. In 2023, he received the Early-Career Researcher Prize from the Journal of Refugee Studies for his article “What Can Data Justice Mean for Asylum Governance?”

 

Current FWF project: 

VALOSINT - Valuing Open-Source Intelligence in Human Rights Contexts 

FWF project by Ivan Josipovic in cooperation with Matthias Leese (Department of Political Science, University of Zurich, Feb 2026 - Aug 2027) and Katharina Paul (Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Sep 2028 - May 2028).   

The project examines (e)valuation processes in the field of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT). Thereby, it focuses on OSINT initiatives in human rights contexts to study what makes open data count as valuable intelligence or evidence among OSINT practitioners, technicians, and institutional decision-makers; how their evaluative frameworks align; what value conflicts they encounter; and what data solidarity could look like in the context of OSINT work.

Funding: Erwin Schördinger, Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

External sources: ivan-josipovic-1.jimdosite.com

Peer-reviewed publications

  • Josipovic, I. (2025) The governmentalisation of personal digital archives in asylum procedures, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol.0(0), DOI:10.1080/1369183X.2025.2492350. 
  • Josipovic, I. (2024): "Digitalising Asylum Procedures: The Legitimisation of Smartphone Data Extraction for Retrospective Border Control", Geopolitics, doi: 10.1080/14650045.2023.2288162.
  • Josipovic, I. (2023): "What Can Data Justice Mean for Asylum Governance? The Case of Smartphone Data Extraction in Germany", Journal of Refugee Studies, fead049, doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fead049.
  • Josipovic, I., Rosenberger, S. and Segarra, H. (2023): "Policy Entrepreneurs of European Disintegration? The Case of Austrian Asylum Governance After 2015", Politics and Governance 11(3), 79-90. doi: https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v11i3.6790.
  • Josipovic, I., Rosenberger, S. (2023) Politikwissenschaft. In: Scharrer, T., Glorius, B., Kleist, O. & Berlinghoff, M. (eds.): Flucht- und Flüchtlingsforschung: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium. Nomos Verlag, pp. 87-96. 
  • Josipovic, I. (2022): "Wenn das Smartphone der Kontrolle dient – Zur Datenträgerauswertung im österreichischen Asylverfahren". Juridikum: Zeitschrift für Kritik, Recht, Gesellschaft 1/2022, p.20-32.
  • Josipovic, I. and Reeger, U. (2022): Two Sides of the Same Coin. Post-“Refugee Crisis” Debates on Migration and European Integration in Austrian Party Politics. In: Foley, J.; Korkut, U.: Contesting
    Cosmopolitan Europe - Euroscepticism, Crisis and Borders. Amsterdam University Press.
  • Josipovic, I., Reeger, U. and Rottman, S. (2020): "Beyond Legal Status: Dimensions of Belonging among Forced Migrants in Istanbul and Vienna", Social Inclusion, Vol.8, No.1, pp.241-251.
  • Die Auswirkungen der „Flüchtlingskrise“ des Jahres 2015 in Österreich: Politische Reaktionen und Einschätzungen von ExpertInnen aus der Praxis (2020), with Ursula Reeger. In: Bauböck, R.; Reinprecht, C.; Sievers, W.: Flucht und Asyl – internationale und österreichische Perspektiven. ÖAW Verlag. Wien.

Online publications and working papers

  • Turning Asylum Seekers’ Smartphones into Control Devices: The Introduction of the Data Extraction Policy in Austria (2021), Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration: Vol. 10.1. See: www.oxforcedmigration.com/current-issue
  • Country Report Austria – Refugee Protection Regimes (2020) with Ursula Reeger. In: RESPOND Working Paper Series Global Migration: Consequences and Response.
  • Country Report Austria – Border Management and Migration Control (2019) with Ursula Reeger. In: RESPOND Working Paper Series Global Migration: Consequences and Response.
  • Country Report Austria – Legal and Policy Framework of Migration Governance (2018) with Ursula Reeger. In: RESPOND Working Paper Series Global Migration: Consequences and Response.

Contact:

Neues Institutsgebäude
Universitätsstr. 7/2. Stock
Zi.-Nr.: B 0205
1010 Wien
T: +43-1-4277-494 46
F: +43-1-4277-949 4
E-Mail: ivan.josipovic@univie.ac.at