Strangers Either Way : : The Lives of Croatian Refugees in their New Home / / Jasna Čapo Zmegač.

• VerfasserIn: Zmegač, Jasna Čapo,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: European Anthropology in Translation ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

Croatia gained the world's attention during the break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. In this context its image has been overshadowed by visions of ethnic conflict and cleansing, war crimes, virulent nationalism, and occasionally even emergent regionalism. Instead of the norm, this book offers a diverse insight into Croatia in the 1990s by dealing with one of the consequences of the war: the more or less forcible migration of Croats from Serbia and their settlement in Croatia, their "ethnic homeland." This important study shows that at a time in which Croatia was perceived as a homogenized nation-in-the-making, there were tensions and ruptures within Croatian society caused by newly arrived refugees and displaced persons from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Refugees who, in spite of their common ethnicity with the homeland population, were treated as foreigners; indeed, as unwanted aliens.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Maps -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. The Ethnology of Individuals -- 2. Srijem Croats Talk About Themselves -- 3. Identity Building in the Local Environment -- 4. The Older Generation and the Migration -- 5. Constructing Difference, Identifying the Self -- 6. Between Individual and Collective Integration into Croatian Society -- 7. Community, Identification, Interaction -- Bibliography -- Index