Bosnian Refugees in Chicago - Gender, Performance, and Post-War Economies

This bookstudies refugee migration through the experiences of Bosnian women displaced by the 1990s wars in former Yugoslavia and analyzes themes of gender, performance, political economy, and citizenship in women’s diverse postwar lives.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Refugee Women and a Chicago Volag
Chapter 2: Making Home and Family after War, and from a Distance
Chapter 3: Ajla in Stolac
Chapter 4: Shifting Time in The Social Life of Bosnian Coffee
Chapter 5: American Balkanism and the Optics of Violence
Chapter 6: A Trade in Stories
Chapter 7: #BiHInSolidarity / Be in Solidarity

About the author

Ana Croegaert is a research affiliate at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago

Product details

• Authors: Ana Croegaert
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781793623065
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-306-5
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Chicago, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Illinois, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Violence in society, Refugees and political asylum, Violence and abuse in society, Refugees & Political Asylum