Troubled locations: Return, the life course and transformations of ‘home’ in Bosnia-Herzegovina
This article confronts the nationalist and foreign interventionist discourses on ‘home’ in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina with the everyday experiences of a category of persons who are perceived as the ultimate embodiment of the promised homecoming encapsulated in sedentarism: minority returnees. It ethnographically traces the initially mirroring movements of two households and their differential ways to overcome … متابعة قراءة Troubled locations: Return, the life course and transformations of ‘home’ in Bosnia-Herzegovina →
Misplaced masculinities: Status loss and the location of gendered subjectivities amongst ‘non-transnational’ Bosnian refugees.
In order to understand gendered patterns of coping that have been noted amongst a variety of migrants, this article analyses localized trajectories of subjectivity that structure early coping strategies with downward social mobility amongst a section of refugees from the Bosnian 19925 war. In particular, it investigates the `misplacement’ as refugee men and as … متابعة قراءة Misplaced masculinities: Status loss and the location of gendered subjectivities amongst ‘non-transnational’ Bosnian refugees. →