Strangers Either Way

The Lives of Croatian Refugees in their New Home
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84545-317-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 224 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 498 g

Reihe: European Anthropology in Translation

Croatia gained the world's attention during the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. In this context its image has been overshadowed by visions of ethnic conflict and cleansing, war crimes, virulent nationalism, and occasionally even emergent regionalism. Instead of the norm, this book offers a diverse insight into Croatia in the 1990s by dealing with one of the consequences of the war: the more or less forcible migration of Croats from Serbia and their settlement in Croatia, their "ethnic homeland." This important study shows that at a time in which Croatia was perceived as a homogenized nation-in-the-making, there were tensions and ruptures within Croatian society caused by newly arrived refugees and displaced persons from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Refugees who, in spite of their common ethnicity with the homeland population, were treated as foreigners; indeed, as unwanted aliens.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zmega¿, Jasna ¿apo

Zmegac, Jasna Capo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps

Acknowledgements

Maps

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Ethnology of Individuals

The individual and her/his culture

The relational notion of identity

Case study: the Srijem Croats

Polyphony, hybridity, levels of reading: methodological-epistemological remarks

The Srijem case as an instance of coethnic migrations

Chapter 2. Srijem Croats Talk about Themselves

Exchanges

One's own and other people's nostalgia

Chapter 3. Identity Building in the Local Environment

"If they are doing well, we are doing well too": resignation

"We will never get over it": the Srijem sorrow

"There's no going back, you have to go forward": integration

Ethnocentrism of the newcomers

Chapter 4. The Older Generation and the Migration

Before the migration: "There was money! What a life! Real life!"

Reasons for leaving Srijem and making the decision to move

The resettlement: the grandfathers deciding

In the new surroundings

From domination to dependence

Chapter 5. Constructing Difference, Identifying the Self

Attribution of difference and symbolism of collective identity

"Good" and "bad" Croats or how to measure Croatian-ness

About the same thing from the other side: statements by the local population in Gradina

Chapter 6. Between Individual and Collective Integration into Croatian Society

At the outset: categorizing the settlers

Activities of the migrant association

The leaders' dilemma: equal citizens or a "sect of Srijem Croats"

Chapter 7. Community, Identification, Interaction

Antagonism between "the established" and "the outsiders"

The local population's perspective

The stereotyped rhetoric of difference

Stereotyping and individualization

The ease of person-to-person interaction

Conclusions

Epilogue: Ethnologist and Her/His Public

To take the standpoint of the researched or not?

Reactions to the restitution of the research

Further unwanted consequences of restitution

How to protect the researched In the end: the distinct position of an ethnologist at home

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Zmegac, Jasna Capo
Jasna Capo Zmegac is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb and adjunct professor at the University of Zagreb. She has a multi-disciplinary background in ethnology, cultural anthropology, demography and French literature. She studied at the University of Zagreb before doing her MA and PhD at Berkeley. She was a postdoctoral fellow in Strasbourg and Vienna, a Humboldt Fellow in Munich and Berlin, and a visiting fellow at various European universities. Her current research interests are in the field of anthropology of migration, especially forced and labor migration, and the politics of identity construction in diaspora settings. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume (with C. Voß and K. Roth) Co-ethnic Migrations Compared: Central and Eastern European Contexts (Munich: Kubon & Sagner, 2010), as well as refereed articles and chapters published in English, French, German, Croatian, and other European languages.

Jasna Capo Zmegac is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb and adjunct professor at the University of Zagreb. She has a multi-disciplinary background in ethnology, cultural anthropology, demography and French literature. She studied at the University of Zagreb before doing her MA and PhD at Berkeley. She was a postdoctoral fellow in Strasbourg and Vienna, a Humboldt Fellow in Munich and Berlin, and a visiting fellow at various European universities. Her current research interests are in the field of anthropology of migration, especially forced and labor migration, and the politics of identity construction in diaspora settings. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume (with C. Voß and K. Roth) Co-ethnic Migrations Compared: Central and Eastern European Contexts (Munich: Kubon & Sagner, 2010), as well as refereed articles and chapters published in English, French, German, Croatian, and other European languages.