TY  - THES
AU  - Maksimović (Pupovac), Maja
PY  - 2019
UR  - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/2991
AB  - The study looks into the interrelationship between social identity and forcible displacement. It explores how the war and the experience of forcible displacement influenced internally displaced persons’ (IDP) identification processes or their sense of membership and belonging. One important characteristic of the subjects of this study is that they are re-settlers, meaning that they are former IDPs who did not wish to return to their pre-war places of residence after the war ended but willingly decided to settle down in their place of refuge; thus, the study’s interest also spreads to the question of what have been the reasons behind these group(s)’ decision to resettle. The study intended to challenge the assumption that IDPs’ resettlement decision in Bosnia and Herzegovina could be seen only through the prism of their ethnic identifications and ethnic loyalties. Also, it aimed to show that the shared ethnic identity between locals and newcomers in Bosnia and Herzegovina does not lessen the significance of perceived cultural differences between these two groups. In other words, the thesis intended to challenge the narratives of unconditional unity and cultural homogeneity within one particular ethnic group, which have often been stressed in the post-war rhetoric of the ethno-national political elites in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Finally, the study intended to explore the presumption that ethnically based groups and categories in Bosnia and Herzegovina, although very much present and influential, are not quite as solid, stable and relevant in all aspects of social life as it has usually been stressed and given attention to. Thus, although ethnic identities are impossible to separate from the topics of war and forcible displacement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this thesis attempts to point out that people in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina possess a variety of different identities that, within particular social settings and under particular social circumstances, can matter more than their sense of ethnic belonging.
PB  - University of Macedonia, Greece
T1  - Collective identification among the internally displaced persons in the Bosnian town of Bijeljina: The impact of war on people’s sense of membership and belonging
DO  - 10.12681/eadd/46140
ER  - 

@phdthesis{
author = "Maksimović (Pupovac), Maja",
year = "2019",
abstract = "The study looks into the interrelationship between social identity and forcible displacement. It explores how the war and the experience of forcible displacement influenced internally displaced persons’ (IDP) identification processes or their sense of membership and belonging. One important characteristic of the subjects of this study is that they are re-settlers, meaning that they are former IDPs who did not wish to return to their pre-war places of residence after the war ended but willingly decided to settle down in their place of refuge; thus, the study’s interest also spreads to the question of what have been the reasons behind these group(s)’ decision to resettle. The study intended to challenge the assumption that IDPs’ resettlement decision in Bosnia and Herzegovina could be seen only through the prism of their ethnic identifications and ethnic loyalties. Also, it aimed to show that the shared ethnic identity between locals and newcomers in Bosnia and Herzegovina does not lessen the significance of perceived cultural differences between these two groups. In other words, the thesis intended to challenge the narratives of unconditional unity and cultural homogeneity within one particular ethnic group, which have often been stressed in the post-war rhetoric of the ethno-national political elites in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Finally, the study intended to explore the presumption that ethnically based groups and categories in Bosnia and Herzegovina, although very much present and influential, are not quite as solid, stable and relevant in all aspects of social life as it has usually been stressed and given attention to. Thus, although ethnic identities are impossible to separate from the topics of war and forcible displacement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this thesis attempts to point out that people in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina possess a variety of different identities that, within particular social settings and under particular social circumstances, can matter more than their sense of ethnic belonging.",
publisher = "University of Macedonia, Greece",
title = "Collective identification among the internally displaced persons in the Bosnian town of Bijeljina: The impact of war on people’s sense of membership and belonging",
doi = "10.12681/eadd/46140"
}

Maksimović (Pupovac), M.. (2019). Collective identification among the internally displaced persons in the Bosnian town of Bijeljina: The impact of war on people’s sense of membership and belonging. 
University of Macedonia, Greece..
https://doi.org/10.12681/eadd/46140

Maksimović (Pupovac) M. Collective identification among the internally displaced persons in the Bosnian town of Bijeljina: The impact of war on people’s sense of membership and belonging. 2019;.
doi:10.12681/eadd/46140 .

Maksimović (Pupovac), Maja, "Collective identification among the internally displaced persons in the Bosnian town of Bijeljina: The impact of war on people’s sense of membership and belonging" (2019),
https://doi.org/10.12681/eadd/46140 . .