The Bosnian Diaspora

Author : Marko Valenta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351893749

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The Bosnian Diaspora by Marko Valenta Pdf

The Bosnian Diaspora: Integration in Transnational Communities provides a comprehensive insight into the situation of the Bosnian Diaspora, including not only experiences in 'western' countries, but also the integration experiences of Bosnian migrants in neighbouring territories, such as Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia. The book presents the latest trans-national comparative studies drawn from the US and Australia as well as countries across Europe, to explore post-crisis interactions among Bosnians and the impact of post-conflict related migration. Examining the common features of the Diaspora, including the responses of migrants to changes within Bosnia and the position of displaced people in both Bosnian society itself and local political discourses, this volume addresses the influence of global anti-Muslim rhetoric on the Bosnian Diaspora's self-identification and refugees' relationships to their home country. The extent to which refugees and returnees can be described as agents of globalization and social change is also considered, whilst addressing the issue of Bosnian integration into various receiving countries and the influence exercised by European reception policies on receiving nations outside Europe. An extensive exploration of a major post-conflict European Diaspora, this book will appeal to those with interests in migration, ethnicity, integration and the displacement effects of Yugoslav conflicts.

Author : Lejla Voloder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786720658

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A Muslim Diaspora in Australia by Lejla Voloder Pdf

In a world of increasingly mixed identities, what does it mean to belong? As western democracies increasingly curtail their support for multiculturalism, how can migrants establish belonging as citizens? A Muslim Diaspora in Australia explores how a particular migrant group has faced the challenges of belonging. The author illustrates how Bosnian migrants in Australia have sought to find places for themselves as migrants, as refugees, and as Muslims, in Australia and Australian society. Challenging the methodological nationalism that tends to dominate discussions of migrant identities, the author exposes the ways in which dignity emerges as a dominant concern for people as they relate to varied local, national and translational contexts. Very little is known about how migrants themselves read and react to the multiple challenges of belonging and this pioneering work offers a timely and much needed critical insight into what it means to belong.

Author : Dževada Šuško
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004394018

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Both Muslim and European by Dževada Šuško Pdf

The edited volume Both Muslim and European: Diasporic and Migrant Identities of Bosniaks scrutinizes some of the new aspects of the Bosniak history and identity and connects them with the experience of migration and diaspora formation.

Author : Aldiana Deumic
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1475274025

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Through Darkness by Aldiana Deumic Pdf

Surviving concentration camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the early 1990's — being close to losing life to bombings — starvation – robbed of her childhood at the age of nine —forced from her home — losing loved ones —separated from her father — coming to the United States as a teenager without knowledge of English — Amna's childhood, her teenage years and her early adulthood are dominated by darkness. Will she escape the hands of the Angel of Death that constantly follows her from the “Land of Blood and Nightmares” to the “Land of Hopes and Dreams?” Follow Amna through a journey of innocence, faith, love, perseverance and growth.

Author : Ana Croegaert
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793623072

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Bosnian Refugees in Chicago by Ana Croegaert Pdf

Bosnian Refugees in Chicago: Gender, Performance, and Post-War Economies studies refugee migration through the experiences of survivors of the 1990s wars in former Yugoslavia as they rebuild home, family, and social lives in the wake of their displacement. Ana Croegaert explores post-1970s Yugoslav-era socialism, American neoliberal capitalism, and anti-Muslim geopolitics to examine women’s varied perspectives on their postwar lives in the United States. Based on more than a decade of fieldwork, Croegaert takes readers into staged performances, coffee rituals, protests, memorials, homes, and non-governmental organizations to shine a light on the pressures women contend with in their efforts to make a living and to narrate their wartime injuries. Ultimately, Croegaert argues that refugee women insist on understanding their wartime losses as simultaneously social and material, a form of personhood she labels “injured life.” At a time of mass displacement and heated political debates concerning refugees, Croegaert provides an engaging portrait of a lively and diverse group of women whose opinions on citizenship and belonging are needed now more than ever.

Author : Dzeneta Karabegovic,Adna Karamehic-Oates
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826274793

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Bosnian Studies by Dzeneta Karabegovic,Adna Karamehic-Oates Pdf

It has been 27 years since the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the history of the conflict, its consequences, and long-term implications for the politics and lives of its citizens has remained a source of interest for scholars across the globe and across disciplines. This scholarship has included works by historians and political scientists seeking to explain the war’s origins with a view to Bosnia’s traditional multi-ethnic character and background. The country has been used as a case study in state- and peace-building, as well as to study the implications of ongoing transitional justice processes. Other scholars within the fields of human rights and genocide studies have focused on documenting the war crimes committed against the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the conflict and the mass-scale displacement of people, mostly Bosnian Muslims, from their homes and homelands. International law scholars have carried this work further, tracing the development of courts created in response to war crimes in Bosnia and their effectiveness in generating justice for victims. Diaspora communities have formed in North America (especially in St. Louis), Europe, and Australia because of war and displacement, and have themselves become a considerable topic of study spanning the disciplines of anthropology, migration studies, political science, memory studies, conflict and security studies, psychology, and geography. This volume seeks to illuminate how Bosnian migrant and diaspora scholars are contributing to the development of Bosnian Studies. The authors included in this volume are either writing from their (new) home bases in Australia, Austria, Canada, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, among others, or they have returned to Bosnia after a period of migration. Their chapters have distinct entry points of inquiry, demonstrating how scholars have integrated Bosnia as a theme across the range of disciplines in which they are situated. The selections included in the volume range from literary analysis to personal memoirs of the conflict, from studies of heritage and identity to political science analysis of diaspora voting, to genocide studies and questions of (or lack of) ethics in the growing field of Bosnian Studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9958598485

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Migration from Bosnia and Herzegovina by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hariz Halilovich
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857457776

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Places of Pain by Hariz Halilovich Pdf

For displaced persons, memory and identity is performed, (re)constructed and (re)negotiated daily. Forced displacement radically reshapes identity, with results ranging from successful hybridization to feelings of permanent misplacement. This compelling and intimate description of places of pain and (be)longing that were lost during the 1992–95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as of survivors’ places of resettlement in Australia, Europe and North America, serves as a powerful illustration of the complex interplay between place, memory and identity. It is even more the case when those places have been vandalized, divided up, brutalized and scarred. However, as the author shows, these places of humiliation and suffering are also places of desire, with displaced survivors emulating their former homes in the far corners of the globe where they have resettled.

Author : Arnesa Buljusmic-Kustura
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : Bosnian Americans
ISBN : 1523344970

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Letters from Diaspora by Arnesa Buljusmic-Kustura Pdf

"This book is about the Bosnian immigrants that survived the war and genocide. These stories, although fictionalized, are based of real people, real trauma, and real experiences"--Author's note.

Author : Jasmin Hasić,Dženeta Karabegović
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030056544

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Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Foreign Policy Since Independence by Jasmin Hasić,Dženeta Karabegović Pdf

This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the foreign policy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a post-conflict country with an active agency in international affairs. Bridging academic and policy debates, the book summarizes and further examines the first twenty-five years of BiH’s foreign policy following the country’s independence from Yugoslavia in 1992. Topics covered include conflict and post-conflict periods, Euro-Atlantic integration, political affairs on both local and regional levels, integration with a variety of international organizations and actors, neighboring states, bilateral relations with relevant other states including the United States, Russia, selected EU countries, and Turkey, as well as BiH’s diaspora. The book highlights that despite their apparent weakness, post-conflict states have agency to carry out foreign policy goals and engage with the international sphere, including in geopolitics, and thus provides a novel insight into weak states and their role in international politics.

Author : Gayle Munro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781315506074

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Transnationalism, Diaspora and Migrants from the former Yugoslavia in Britain by Gayle Munro Pdf

The geo-political area of what once constituted Yugoslavia has been a region of significant migration since the 1960s. More recently, the conflicts in the region were the catalysts for massive displacements of individuals, families and whole communities. Thus far, there has been a gap in the literature on the qualitative experience of migrants from the former Yugoslavia through the twin theoretical lenses of transnationalism and diaspora. This book offers an ethnographic account of migration and life in diaspora of migrants originating from the former Yugoslavia and now living in Britain. Concepts such as the development of cultural beacons and diasporic borrowing are introduced through the ways in which migrants from the region form community associations and articulate - or avoid - such affiliations. The study examines the ways in which the experience of migration can be shaped by the socio-political contexts of departure and arrival, and considers how the lexicon associated with the act of migration can weave itself into the identities of migrants. The ways in which the transnational and diasporic spaces are dictated by certain narratives, for example the allegory of dreaming and the language of guilt, are explored. It also investigates migrants’ ongoing connection with the homeland, considering social and cultural elements, their reception in UK, and British media representations of Yugoslavia. Contributing to the knowledge on the experiences of migrants from a part of the world which has been under-researched in terms of its migrating populations, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Political Geography, Social Geography, Eastern European Politics, and Migration and Diaspora studies.

Author : Kenan Trebincevic,Susan Shapiro
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101631805

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The Bosnia List by Kenan Trebincevic,Susan Shapiro Pdf

A young survivor of the Bosnian War returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his family. The story behind the YA novel World in Between: Based on a True Refugee Story. At age eleven, Kenan Trebincevic was a happy, karate-loving kid living with his family in the quiet Eastern European town of Brcko. Then, in the spring of 1992, war broke out and his friends, neighbors and teammates all turned on him. Pero - Kenan's beloved karate coach - showed up at his door with an AK-47 - screaming: "You have one hour to leave or be killed!" Kenan’s only crime: he was Muslim. This poignant, searing memoir chronicles Kenan’s miraculous escape from the brutal ethnic cleansing campaign that swept the former Yugoslavia. After two decades in the United States, Kenan honors his father’s wish to visit their homeland, making a list of what he wants to do there. Kenan decides to confront the former next door neighbor who stole from his mother, see the concentration camp where his Dad and brother were imprisoned and stand on the grave of his first betrayer to make sure he’s really dead. Back in the land of his birth, Kenan finds something more powerful—and shocking—than revenge.

Author : Lara J. Nettelfield,Sarah Wagner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107000469

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Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide by Lara J. Nettelfield,Sarah Wagner Pdf

This book traces the reverberations of genocide, forced displacement, and a legacy of loss in Bosnia and abroad.

Author : Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1433183862

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Narratives of Victimhood and Perpetration by Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod Pdf

"The labels of victim and perpetrator in the aftermath of genocide have shaped the stories of pain and reconstructions for many of the Bosnian and Rwandan Americans. The trauma created by the labels has not only affected the first generations but has had profound impacts on future generations. The younger generations in Diaspora have learned about their country and history through their communities' stories and had to deal with their communities' labeling of victims or perpetrators created by the accident of their ethnicity. Here I am exploring how these labels and their complicated national histories shape the newer generations sense of homeland and identity as well as their involvement in their homeland or host-country politics. The narratives presented in this book helps us understand how young people understand their identities, their communities' narratives, and their reflections on post-atrocity reconciliation as well as how they engage with the Diaspora communities' politics in their homeland and in America. This book brings to light the individual stories of all ethnic groups and explores the impacts of the labels of victimhood and perpetrator on the second generations. By creating a space for the stories of all individuals who have experienced mass atrocities, this book hopes to start the healing process of these transgenerational traumas and works to reduce the interethnic resentments that result from them. Allowing the stories of all groups to be heard will provide an important outlet and, we may hope, help prevent future recurrences of the violence"--

Author : Darryl Li
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503610880

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The Universal Enemy by Darryl Li Pdf

Winner of the 2021 William A. Douglass Prize: A new perspective on the concept of international jihad and its connection to the 1990s Balkans crisis. No contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who wages jihad around the world. Spreading violence, disregarding national borders, and rejecting secular norms, so-called jihadists seem opposed to universalism itself. In a radical departure from conventional wisdom on the topic, The Universal Enemy argues that transnational jihadists are engaged in their own form of universalism: These fighters struggle to realize an Islamist vision directed at all of humanity, transcending racial and cultural difference. Anthropologist and attorney Darryl Li reconceptualizes jihad as armed transnational solidarity under conditions of American empire, revisiting a pivotal moment after the Cold War when ethnic cleansing in the Balkans dominated global headlines. Muslim volunteers came from distant lands to fight in Bosnia-Herzegovina alongside their co-religionists, offering themselves as an alternative to the US-led international community. Li highlights the parallels and overlaps between transnational jihads and other universalisms such as the War on Terror, United Nations peacekeeping, and socialist Non-Alignment. Developed from more than a decade of research with former fighters in a half-dozen countries, The Universal Enemy explores the relationship between jihad and American empire to shed critical light on both. “[Li] effectively confronts the demonization of jihadists in the aftermath of 9/11, particularly in the US. . . . The author’s linguistic skills and the depth of the interviews are impressive, and the case selection is intriguing. Recommended.” —Choice “This important book offers many insights for scholars and students of political thought, anthropology, and law. Li’s breadth and acumen in navigating these different fields of study is impressive.” —Political Theory