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Bosnian Refugees in Chicago
Gender, Performance, and Post-War Economies
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2020
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Bosnian Refugees in Chicago: Gender, Performance, and Post-War Economies studies refugee migration through the experiences of survivors of the 1990s wars in former Yugoslavia as they rebuild home, family, and social lives in the wake of their displacement. Ana Croegaert explores post-1970s Yugoslav-era socialism, American neoliberal capitalism, and anti-Muslim geopolitics to examine women’s varied perspectives on their postwar lives in the United States. Based on more than a decade of fieldwork, Croegaert takes readers into staged performances, coffee rituals, protests, memorials, homes, and non-governmental organizations to shine a light on the pressures women contend with in their efforts to make a living and to narrate their wartime injuries. Ultimately, Croegaert argues that refugee women insist on understanding their wartime losses as simultaneously social and material, a form of personhood she labels “injured life.” At a time of mass displacement and heated political debates concerning refugees, Croegaert provides an engaging portrait of a lively and diverse group of women whose opinions on citizenship and belonging are needed now more than ever.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-2306-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-2307-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
184
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Contents No access
List of Figures No access
Acknowledgments No access
A Note on Language and Pronunciation No access
A Note about Terminology No access
Gathering Grounds: An Introduction No access Pages 1 - 26
Chapter One. Refugee Women and a Chicago Volag No access Pages 27 - 42
Chapter Two. Making Home and Family after War, and from a Distance No access Pages 43 - 62
Chapter Three. Ajla in Stolac No access Pages 63 - 72
Chapter Four. Shifting Time in the Social Life of Bosnian Coffee No access Pages 73 - 94
Chapter Five. American Balkanism and the Optics of Violence No access Pages 95 - 116
Chapter Six. A Trade in Stories No access Pages 117 - 140
Chapter Seven. #BiHInSolidarity / Be in Solidarity No access Pages 141 - 162
Gathering Grounds: A Reflection No access Pages 163 - 168
