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'Home' and ethnicity in the context of war: hesitant diasporas of Bosnian refugees
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Abstract This article examines the meanings of 'home' in the lives of Bosnian refugees living in diaspora after the extremely destructive war in Bosnia. Through careful reading of life stories written by two refugees living in Finland, it highlights the dynamic process of negotiating belonging in diasporic s... mehr
This article examines the meanings of 'home' in the lives of Bosnian refugees living in diaspora after the extremely destructive war in Bosnia. Through careful reading of life stories written by two refugees living in Finland, it highlights the dynamic process of negotiating belonging in diasporic situations. It pays special attention to the ambivalent role of ethnicity in the memories of these writers and their understanding of 'good homes'. The reading does not support the popular 'ancient hatred' explanation of war in Bosnia; the violence of the war does not grow organically from the lives of ethnically mixed communities. Rather, it is brought to the communities by politicized discourses interpreting the language of ethnicity in extremely violent and exclusive ways. This article's orientation is towards ‘hesitant diasporas’ because of refugees' hesitation between their country of origin and their new country of settlement as their 'homes' in a changing situation.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Migration; Diaspora
Klassifikation
Migration
Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Bosnia; ethnicity; home; life stories; transnationalism; violence; war
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2005
Seitenangabe
S. 177-195
Zeitschriftentitel
European Journal of Cultural Studies, 8 (2005) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549405051843
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)