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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 … Continue reading Troubled locations: Return, the life course and transformations of ‘home’ in Bosnia-Herzegovina