Naslov
Return and reintegration of Minority Refugees: The Complexity of the Serbian Returnees Experiences in Town Glina

Autori
Koska, Viktor

Izvornik
Politička misao : Croatian Political Science Review (0032-3241) XLV (2009), 5; 191-217

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
return; reintegration; minority returnees; town Glina; Brubaker; ethnicity as category

Sažetak
This paper explores the challenges for successful reintegration into the local communities that former Serbian refugees face once they return to Croatia. It provides the comparison between the modes of cooperation, levels of trust and social networks that existed before the war in 90s with those that have developed after their return. Furthermore, it also explores the returnees’ perceptions on the work of the public institutions and their role for developing the incentives for return and integration. This study proposes the understanding of reintegration not as a single process which results in one absolute returnee experience. Rather, it aims to analyse reintegration as a set of complex processes, decisions and perceptions which returnee associates and attributes to various settings upon his return. The focus on 'practical categories', and how they gain or lose meaning in public and private environments will be adopted to evaluate these experiences. It will be argued that such an approach can reveal that reintegration to local communities may mean various things for returnees, depending on the setting in which they act. That the experience of return can produce feelings of both exclusion and inclusion.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija

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