Naslov
Migration, wars and peace processes in the former Yugoslavia

Autori
Katunarić, Vjeran

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Diasporas, Armed Conflicts and Peacebuilding in their Homelands

Urednik/ci
Swain, Ashok

Izdavač
Uppsala Universitet

Grad
Uppsala

Godina
2007

Raspon stranica
40-49

ISBN
9789150619638

Ključne riječi
Key words: diasporas, war, former Yugoslavia, path dependency, international intervention

Sažetak
Creation of the newest diasporas in the area of the former Yugoslavia is informed by a variety of interconnected processes, both historical and contemporary. In this, the creation of the former diaspora is somehow connected with the creation of the newest diaspora, mostly made of refugees. For example, rebellion of Serbs in Croatia in the beginning of 1990s overlapped considerably with the map of Serb upsurges against the establishment of the so called Independent State of Croatia in 1941. Even motives and declarations were similar, as the new Croatian state was blemished as being the heir of the genocidal Croatian state. The massive Serbian exodus from Croatia in 1995, the largest one after the Second World War, followed as a consequence of both the Serb historicist perception of the new Croatian state and the politics of intolerance toward Serbs. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, wars in 1990s wielded similar derivations of historical stereotypes. For the adversaries, Bosniacs were named Balijas, Serbs were squeezed into Chetniks, and Croats into Ustashe. The author maintains that a “ path dependency” exists between migration and creation of the new states, esp. these states’ policies toward minorities. The newest, post-war composition of the population is an intended consequence of the war – as it was with the former, i.e., the Second World War, in the area. Central to the strategy of the actors was, to paraphrase Gellner’ s definition of nationalism, to make state boundaries coterminous with ethnic boundaries. Although there are reasons to believe that ethnic cleansing is not anymore on the agenda of the present day politics in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia, some consequences of the initial strategy seem irrevocable. Also, it becomes clear that the international intervention into the area was necessary in order to break with the negativity of the domestic path dependency.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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