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

By Ana Croegaert

Summary

This book studies 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.

Product details

• Authors: Ana Croegaert
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781793623089
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-308-9
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; 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