Suitcase Refugee Voices From Bosnia and Croatia

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About the author

Julie Mertus was a Fulbright scholar, human rights activist, and Professor of Law in Bucharest, Romania. She is now Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at American University. Jasmina Tesanovic is a writer and publisher in Belgrade, Serbia. Habiba Metikos was a lawyer in Sarajevo; she now lives in Canada. Rada Boric is a Director of the Center for Women War Victims in Zagreb, Croatia. Cornel West is Professor of African American Studies at Harvard University and author of Race Matters (1993), among many other books.

Summary

A collection of personal narratives - essays, letters, and poems - from refugees fleeing Bosnia and Croatia. Taking us behind the barrage of media coverage, it includes stories that tell of perseverance, brutality, forced departure, exile, and courage.

Product details

• Authors: Julie A. Tesanovic Mertus, Habiba Metikos, Julie Tesanovic Mertus, Rada Boric, Jasmina Tesanovic, Julie Mertus, Julie A. Mertus, Mertus/Tesanovic, Mertus Julie A., Tesanovic Jasmina, Metikos Habiba, Boric Rada
• Assisted by: Habiba Metikos (Editor), Rada Boric (Editor), Jasmina Tesanovic (Editor), Julie Mertus (Editor), Julie A. Mertus (Editor), Cornel West (Foreword), West Cornel (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 20.01.1997
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780520206342
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20634-2
• Pages: 267
• Subjects: Biography: general, HISTORY / Military / General, Anthropology, military history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum