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.