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Egalitarian Ambitions, Constructions of Difference: The Paradoxes of Refugee Integration in Sweden
In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies: JEMS, Volume 37, Issue 2, p. 277-295
ISSN: 1469-9451
SPECIAL ISSUE: 'INTEGRATION': MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES BETWEEN SCANDINAVIAN WELFARE SOCIETIES AND FAMILY RELATIONS: Egalitarian Ambitions, Constructions of Difference: The Paradoxes of Refugee Integration in Sweden
In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies: JEMS, Volume 37, Issue 2, p. 277-296
ISSN: 1369-183X
Stories as Lived Experience: Narratives in Forced Migration Research
In: Journal of refugee studies, Volume 20, Issue 2, p. 248-264
ISSN: 1471-6925
Stories as Lived Experience: Narratives in Forced Migration Research
In: Journal of refugee studies, Volume 20, Issue 2, p. 248-264
ISSN: 0951-6328
Transnational Returns and Reconstruction in Post‐war Bosnia and Herzegovina
In: International migration: quarterly review, Volume 44, Issue 3, p. 141-166
ISSN: 1468-2435
ABSTRACTThe return of refugees and displaced persons has been a strong priority in the international commitment to reverse "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the war. Return and reintegration of refugees as a durable solution in profoundly changed and uncertain conditions are rarely unproblematic, and in Bosnia the sustainability of such returns, especially minority returns, remains of great concern. This article examines the strategies of return which Bosnian refugees adopt given such uncertainties, and points to the transnational space in which they occur. The return strategies described are of different duration, often take place outside of established policies and programmes, and are based on the need to keep options open in different places. While policies have tended to define refugee return as a single and definitive move to the country or place of origin, the transnational perspective suggests that return be better conceptualized as a dynamic and open‐ended process, one which may extend over long periods of time, involving mobility between places and active links to people and resources in the country of asylum. Transnational strategies also include the many refugees abroad who hold on to their repossessed houses in Bosnia and visit regularly, some of them for longer periods and in preparation for returning permanently at a later date. In such a transnational dynamic, refugees and returnees are not always clear‐cut categories, as both may move between and combine resources at both ends. The transnational perspective also throws into question notions of "home" as something bound to one particular locality or national community. If home is not just a place or a physical structure, but also a site of social relations and cultural meanings, it may well extend to several places, each one of which may hold its own particular sets of relations and meanings to those concerned. This transnational dimension of home is thus a challenge to notions of "repatriation" or "return" in the simplistic mode. Instead, as this paper shows, the reconstructed home may be translocal, where each locality becomes part of a new home. Rethinking return of refugees in terms of transnational mobility and belonging also suggests new ways of conceptualizing the potential for reconstruction of a large refugee population abroad. How policies and assistance programmes may capitalize on the skills and continued transnational engagements, not least of the many young Bosnians now acquiring higher education abroad, has yet to be developed.
Nationalist Discourses and the Construction of Difference: Bosnian Muslim Refugees in Sweden
In: Journal of refugee studies, Volume 11, Issue 2, p. 161-181
ISSN: 0951-6328
Luchar y sufrir‐ Stories of life and exile: Reflexions on the ethnographic process*
In: Ethnos, Volume 61, Issue 3-4, p. 231-250
ISSN: 1469-588X
"Betwixt and Between": Hope and the meaning of school for asylum-seeking children in Sweden
In: Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Volume 3, Issue 3, p. 162
ISSN: 1799-649X
In the Best Interest of the Child? The Politics of Vulnerability and Negotiations for Asylum in Sweden
In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies: JEMS, Volume 37, Issue 8, p. 1185-1200
ISSN: 1469-9451
Transitions, state building and the 'residual' refugee problem: East Timor and Cambodian repatriation experience
In: Australian journal of human rights: AJHR, Volume 8, Issue 1, p. 7-29
ISSN: 1323-238X
Book Reviews - Terms of Refuge: The Indochinese Exodus and the International Response
In: Journal of refugee studies, Volume 13, Issue 2, p. 226
ISSN: 0951-6328
Safeguarding a Child Perspective in Asylum Reception: Dilemmas of Children's Case Workers in Sweden
In: Journal of refugee studies, Volume 26, Issue 2, p. 247-246
ISSN: 0951-6328
Introduction: Sustainable Return in the Balkans: Beyond Property Restitution and Policy
In: International migration: quarterly review, Volume 44, Issue 3, p. 5-13
ISSN: 1468-2435