“Returning Home”: The various courses for the repatriation process within Bosnia and Hercegovina (selected case studies) Cover Image

„Návrat domů“: Rozdílné průběhy repatriačního procesu v Bosně a Hercegovině (vybrané případové studie)
“Returning Home”: The various courses for the repatriation process within Bosnia and Hercegovina (selected case studies)

Author(s): Ondřej Žíla
Subject(s): Political Sciences, Sociology, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Migration Studies
Published by: Porta Balkanica, z. s.
Keywords: Bosnia–Herzegovina; minority return; the success of return; international community; ethnic configuration of the country; statistics;

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the course taken by the repatriation process in post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina. Based on results obtained from field research in selected localities, it presents a typology of the success of the repatriation process. It aims primarily to shed new light on the situation at the local level as seen by the repatriates, the organizers of the repatriation, representatives of the state administration (mainly employees of district offices) and employees of international organizations. The overall goals of these explorations of local situations are to attempt to portray the ethno-demographic situation in particular regions and show the differences between what the international community presented as its success in handling the repatriation process (the “macro-view”) and how this process was actually evaluated by the “subjects” of the aid – i.e. the repatriates themselves (the “micro-view”).

  • Issue Year: 6/2014
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 34-49
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Czech
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