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Counter-storytelling in Croatia : Roma oral history during Croatia's homeland war

In Croatia, Roma groups have been vastly under- researched ; as many studies are sociological or pedagogical in nature, the lack of historical and ethnological studies is obvious. One specific lacuna in recent Croatian history is the experience of old-Romanian speaking communities in Baranja (Eastern Croatia) during what Croats refer to as the Homeland War (Domovinski Rat) of 1991– 1995. The lack of research created a general sentiment among Croatians, developed from previously held opinions or anecdotal stories, which holds that either all Roma ‘left before the first shot’ and became asylum seekers in Western Europe, or joined the Serbian side due to their Orthodox leanings, or took advantage of the war to loot and commit crimes. The recent oral history accounts of individuals in Baranja will be set in the larger context of the war, contrasting images of the Roma in popular memory and media representation and their own narrated experience. This oral history will aim to contribute to a more heterogeneous history of the Roma experience in Baranja during the war.

Croatia : homeland war ; Roma ; oral history

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