'Home' and ethnicity in the context of war: hesitant diasporas of Bosnian refugees

Huttunen, Laura

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dc.contributor.author	Huttunen, Laura	de
dc.date.accessioned	2011-03-01T05:20:00Z	de
dc.date.accessioned	2012-08-29T22:37:15Z
dc.date.available	2012-08-29T22:37:15Z
dc.date.issued	2005	de
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/22648
dc.description.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 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.	en
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie	de
dc.subject.ddc	Social sciences, sociology, anthropology	en
dc.subject.other	Bosnia; ethnicity; home; life stories; transnationalism; violence; war
dc.title	'Home' and ethnicity in the context of war: hesitant diasporas of Bosnian refugees	en
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.source.journal	European Journal of Cultural Studies	de
dc.source.volume	8	de
dc.publisher.country	GBR
dc.source.issue	2	de
dc.subject.classoz	Migration, Sociology of Migration	en
dc.subject.classoz	Ethnologie, Kulturanthropologie, Ethnosoziologie	de
dc.subject.classoz	Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology	en
dc.subject.classoz	Migration	de
dc.subject.thesoz	migration	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Migration	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Diaspora	de
dc.subject.thesoz	diaspora	en
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-226482	de
dc.date.modified	2011-05-20T12:00:00Z	de
dc.rights.licence	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)	de
dc.rights.licence	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)	en
ssoar.gesis.collection	SOLIS;ADIS	de
ssoar.contributor.institution	http://www.peerproject.eu/	de
internal.status	3	de
internal.identifier.thesoz	10041006
internal.identifier.thesoz	10034515
dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.rights.copyright	f	de
dc.source.pageinfo	177-195
internal.identifier.classoz	10304
internal.identifier.classoz	10400
internal.identifier.journal	114	de
internal.identifier.document	32
internal.identifier.ddc	300
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549405051843	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Postprint	en
dc.description.pubstatus	Postprint	de
internal.identifier.licence	7
internal.identifier.pubstatus	2
internal.identifier.review	1
internal.check.abstractlanguageharmonizer	CERTAIN
internal.check.languageharmonizer	CERTAIN_RETAINED

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