Strangers either way : the lives of Croatian refugees in their new home / Jasna Čapo Žmegač ; translated by Nina H. Antoljak, Mateusz M. Stanojević.

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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 homog.

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List of Maps; Acknowledgements; Maps Introduction Chapter 1. The Ethnology of Individuals ; The individual and her/his culture; The relational notion of identity; Case study: the Srijem Croats; Polyphony, hybridity, levels of reading: methodological-epistemological remarks; The Srijem case as an instance of coethnic migrations Chapter 2. Srijem Croats Talk about Themselves ; Exchanges; One's own and other people's nostalgia Chapter 3. Identity Building in the Local Environment ; "If they are doing well, we are doing well too": resignation; "We will never get over it": the Srijem sorrow; "There's no going back, you have to go forward": integration; Ethnocentrism of the newcomers Chapter 4.

The Older Generation and the Migration ; Before the migration: "There was money! What a life! Real life!"; Reasons for leaving Srijem and making the decision to move; The resettlement: the grandfathers deciding; In the new surroundings; From domination to dependence Chapter 5. Constructing Difference, Identifying the Self ; Attribution of difference and symbolism of collective identity; "Good" and "bad" Croats or how to measure Croatian-ness; About the same thing from the other side: statements by the local population in Gradina Chapter 6. Between Individual and Collective Integration into Croatian Society ; At the outset: categorizing the settlers; Activities of the migrant association; The leaders' dilemma: equal citizens or a "sect of Srijem Croats" Chapter 7.

Community, Identification, Interaction ; Antagonism between "the established" and "the outsiders"; The local population's perspective; The stereotyped rhetoric of difference; Stereotyping and individualization; The ease of person-to-person interaction Conclusions Epilogue: Ethnologist and Her/His Public ; To take the standpoint of the researched or not?; Reactions to the restitution of the research; Further unwanted consequences of restitution; How to protect the researched In the end: the distinct position of an ethnologist at home Bibliography; Index

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