Decided Return Migration : : Emotions, Citizenship, Home and Belonging in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• Superior document: IMISCOE Research Series
• Author: Ibričević, Aida.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: IMISCOE Research Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Research Questions -- 1.2 Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Post-conflict Society -- 1.3 The BiH Diaspora and Post-war Return Migration -- 1.4 Citizenship of Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 1.5 "Constituent Peoples": Ethnic Belonging Institutionalized in the DPA Constitution -- 1.6 Research Methodology -- 1.6.1 Research Design -- 1.6.2 Data Collection -- 1.6.3 Data Analysis -- 1.6.4 Ethical Considerations -- 1.7 Book Structure -- References -- Chapter 2: Conceptual Framework -- 2.1 Theoretical Problem -- 2.2 Conceptualizing Voluntary Return Migration to a Post-Conflict Society -- 2.3 The Returnees: Diaspora Members and Transmigrants -- 2.4 Political Emotions: Moving Beyond the Reason/Emotion Dichotomy -- 2.5 Citizenship as Membership Status of a Community or a State? -- 2.6 Emotional/Affective/Intimate Citizenship: Perceiving Citizenship as Feeling -- 2.7 Home: Place, Time, and a Set of Social Relations -- 2.8 Belonging: Place-Belongingness and the Politics of Belonging -- 2.9 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Decided Return and Reintegration in a Post-Conflict Society -- 3.1 The Decision to Return -- 3.1.1 The Necessary Economic Minimum Requirement Enabling Return -- 3.1.2 Emotional Reasons as the Primary Motivation for Return -- 3.1.2.1 Giving Back -- 3.1.2.2 Personalizing Collective Tragedy and Trauma Recovery -- 3.1.2.3 Closeness to Family Members and Religious Traditions -- 3.1.2.4 Postmaterialist Value System -- 3.1.2.5 Initial Enthusiasm -- 3.2 Encountering Obstacles Upon Return -- 3.3 Strategies for Overcoming the Challenges of Return -- 3.4 "So, What Do You Think?": Evaluating the Success of Return -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Emotional Dimension of BiH Citizenship -- 4.1 Specific Emotions Constituting the BiH Citizenship.

4.1.1 Rage, Anger and Frustration -- 4.1.2 Fear -- 4.1.3 Guilt -- 4.1.4 Hatred -- 4.1.5 Denial -- 4.1.6 Disgust -- 4.1.7 Shame -- 4.1.8 Pity and Empathy -- 4.1.9 Sorrow -- 4.1.10 Disappointment -- 4.1.11 Powerlessness -- 4.1.12 Nostalgia -- 4.1.13 Patriotic Love -- 4.1.14 Pride -- 4.1.15 Defiance -- 4.1.16 Happiness and Joy -- 4.1.17 Hope -- 4.2 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Losing, Creating and Re-creating Home and Belonging -- 5.1 Home as Family, Time, and Place -- 5.1.1 Family as Home -- 5.1.2 Temporal Understanding of Home-Home in Time -- 5.1.3 Spatial Understanding of Home-Home as Place -- 5.1.4 State Territory as Place: Is it Possible to "Feel at Home" on the Entire BiH State Territory? -- 5.2 Disentangling Belonging -- 5.2.1 Relational Belonging and Neighborliness -- 5.2.2 Ethnic Belonging: Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, and "Others" -- 5.2.3 Religious Belonging: Monotheistic Traditions with Fluidity and Change -- 5.2.4 Linguistic Belonging: Do We Speak a Common Language? -- 5.2.5 Landscape Belonging-An Emotional Attachment to the Natural Environment -- 5.2.6 Economic Belonging-Having a Stake in the Domestic Economy -- 5.2.7 Civic Belonging: Can Citizenship Be the Main Expression of an Individual's Identity in BiH? -- 5.3 Outsiders Here and Outsiders There: Boundary Making and the Politics of Belonging -- 5.3.1 Boundary Making at Home -- 5.3.2 Boundary Making Abroad -- 5.4 The "Myth of Return": Being "in Between" and Multiple Belonging -- 5.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Connecting the Dots: Conceptual Model -- 6.1 Building the Model: Citizenship, Emotions and Emotional Indifference -- 6.2 Building the Model: Feeling Safe/Secure Takes Center Stage -- 6.2.1 Pragmatic Citizenship Offers a Feeling of Security -- 6.2.2 "Feeling at Home" and Place-Belongingness Means Feeling Safe -- 6.3 Conclusion -- References.

Chapter 7: The Road Less Travelled: What Can Be Learnt? -- 7.1 Deciding to Return: The Diasporic "Homeland Orientation" Actualized -- 7.2 What Emotions Do the Returnees Feel as BiH Citizens? -- 7.3 Return Migration as a Search for Home and Belonging -- 7.4 Feeling Safe/Secure, Citizenship, Home and Belonging -- 7.5 What Does the Future Hold? -- References.