" ...an accessible text that makes, and evidences, hypotheses about
identity-building, cross-cultural strategies, and the processes of
co-ethnic migration." . JRAI
"The translation to the lingua franca of today's world is a very
good decision, since this remarkable text would have otherwise
remained unknown to readers not fluent in Croatian... It]
contributes to a better understanding of identity dynamics and
creation of multicultural interaction in a national context." .
Anthropological Noteboooks
"This is an excellent addition to the literature on the
experience of migration... apo mega ... is well informed... The
theoretical treatments are useful and well supported... The
translation is very good, and the epilogue reflecting on the
Croatian reception of apo mega 's work in 2002 is an unusual and
valuable methodological contribution. Highly recommended." .
Choice
..". a welcome addition to the field of forced migrations for it
makes a significant exploratory step into the understudied
phenomena of cultural dynamism and identity (re)construction among
co-ethnic migrants (refugees) in the post-Yugoslav space." .
Austrian History Yearbook
Croatia gained the world's attention during the break-up of
Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. In this context its image has been
overshadowed by visions of ethnic conflict and cleansing, war
crimes, virulent nationalism, and occasionally even emergent
regionalism. Instead of the norm, this book offers a diverse
insight into Croatia in the 1990s by dealing with one of the
consequences of the war: the more or less forcible migration of
Croats from Serbia and their settlement in Croatia, their "ethnic
homeland." This important study shows that at a time in which
Croatia was perceived as a homogenized nation-in-the-making, there
were tensions and ruptures within Croatian society caused by newly
arrived refugees and displaced persons from Serbia and Bosnia and
Herzegovina. Refugees who, in spite of their common ethnicity with
the homeland population, were treated as foreigners; indeed, as
unwanted aliens.
Jasna apo Zmega is a senior research fellow at the Institute of
Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb and adjunct professor at
the University of Zagreb. She has a multi-disciplinary background
in ethnology, cultural anthropology, demography and French
literature. She studied at the University of Zagreb before doing
her MA and PhD at Berkeley. She was a postdoctoral fellow in
Strasbourg and Vienna, a Humboldt Fellow in Munich and Berlin, and
a visiting fellow at various European universities. Her current
research interests are in the field of anthropology of migration,
especially forced and labor migration, and the politics of identity
construction in diaspora settings. Her recent publications include
the co-edited volume (with C. Voss and K. Roth) Co-ethnic
Migrations Compared: Central and Eastern European Contexts (Munich:
Kubon & Sagner, 2010), as well as refereed articles and
chapters published in English, French, German, Croatian, and other
European languages."
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