Пропустљивост границе: Срби-„Српски Цигани” у енклави Витина
Permeable Boundaries: Serbs-“Serbian Gypsies” In The Vitina Enclave

Summary/Abstract: Field research of the Serbian community of southeast Kosovo (part of a broader area known as the Kosovo Pomoravlje, or Morava river basin) began among persons displaced from this area to Smederevo, Vranje, and Vranjska Banja (all towns in Serbia) and in situin the Vitina enclave, which together with the township of the same name, is comprised of the villages of Vrbovac, Grnčar, Binač, Mogila and Klokot. The township of Vitina is ethnically mixed, as are the villages of Binačand Mogila, where a small number of the Serbian community still remains. Vrbovac and Grnčar are adjoined, and apart from some Roma families living in Vrbovac, are almost exclusively Serb. Klokot is a village with a majority Serb population. Research continued in Gnjilane, a regional centre, in some of the larger neighbouring villages (Šilovo, Gornje Kusce,Parteš, Pasjane, Gornji Livoč). Multi-sited fieldwork was necessary since these localities are connected so as to form a whole. The community is scattered, one part remaining in Kosovo, the other moving to Serbia, and is in fact in both places at once. Research, in the narrower context, was carried out between 2003 and 2006. The aim of the research was to study the relation between ethnicity and other forms of collective identification (religious, regional, local, gender…) in a context that had undergone profound change since 1999, when an international protectorate had been set up for the region

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