Strangers either way
Subtitle: the lives of Croatian refugees in their new home
By: Jasna Čapo Žmegač ; translated by Nina H. Antoljak, Mateusz M. Stanojević.
Edition: English-language ed.
Series: European anthropology in translation -- v. 2.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781845453176
Subjects: Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Refugees -- Croatia; Croats -- Srem (Serbia and Croatia) -- History -- 20th century; Croats -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century; Srem (Serbia and Croatia) -- History -- 20th century; Srem (Serbia and Croatia) -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: The ethnology of individuals; title: The individual and her/his culture; title: The relational notion of identity; title: Case study: the Srijem Croats; title: Polyphony, hybridity, and levels of reading: methodological-epistemological remarks; title: The Srijem case as an instance of coethnic migrations; title: Srijem Croats talk about themselves; title: Exchanges; title: One's own and other people's; title: Nostalgia; title: Identity building in the local environment; title: "If they are doing well, we are doing well too": resignation; title: "We will never get over it": the Srijem sorrow; title: "There's no going back, you have to go forward": integration; title: Ethnocentrism of the newcomers; title: The older generation and the migration; title: Before the migration: "There was money! What a life! Real life!"; title: Reasons for leaving Srijem and making the decision to move; title: The resettlement: the grandfathers deciding; title: In the new surroundings; title: From domination to dependence; title: Constructing difference, identifying the self; title: Attribution of difference and symbolism of collective identity; title: "Good" and "bad" Croats or how to measure Croatian-ness; title: About the same thing from the other side: statements by the local population in Gradina; title: Between individual and collective integration into Croatian society; title: At the outset: categorizing the settlers; title: Activities of the migrant association; title: The leaders' dilemma: equal citizens or a "sect of Srijem Croats"; title: Community, identification, interaction; title: Antagonism between "the established" and "the outsiders"; title: The local population's perspective; title: The stereotyped rhetoric of difference; title: Stereotyping and individualization; title: The ease of person-to-person interaction; title: Conclusions; title: Epilogue: ethnologist and her/his public; title: To take the standpoint of the research subjects or not?; title: Reactions to the restitution of the research; title: Further unwanted consequences of restitution; title: How to protect the research subjects; title: In the end: the distinct position of an ethnologist at home.