Daring ‘life‐return projects’ to post‐Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina

Porobić, Selma

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“…I did not find any proof of ongoing monitoring that had been carried out by the international and national bodies. A similar mix of complaints, disillusionment, and frustration among Bosnian repatriates has been discussed by other scholars (Porobić 2017;Jansen 2007a;Hovey 2001).…”

Section: The Successful Minority Return and Limitations Of Its Measursupporting

confidence: 70%

“…These authors also state that it remains open for debate whether the notion of the "sustainability" of return represents the best way of conceptualizing the success of a return process (Black & Gent 2006). In any event, official numbers cannot adequately depict any individual's difficulties with the repatriation process (Porobić 2017).…”

Section: The Successful Minority Return and Limitations Of Its Measurmentioning

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After coming home: Forms and meanings of return in Dayton’s Bosnia and Herzegovina

Žíla¹

2019

Glas Etnogr inst

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The Dayton Agreement was meant to end the war, restore the Bosnian state to its prewar multiethnic composition, and facilitate rebuilding coexistence among its constituent nations. The peace treaty stipulated that people who were forced to leave their homes had a right to return home freely. To do so, the most important provisions were contained in Annex 7, which focused on arranging the return of refugees and IDPs. Minority returns became a special tool for measuring success in the peacebuilding process. Since repatriation did not happen in the way the international community anticipated, the fulfillment of Annex 7 became a political priority. Since 1999, international agencies (OHR, UNHCR, and others) have set the return of minorities at the top of their agenda. Although the repatriation process has not officially been concluded, the number of returnees were low after 2006. It is no longer much of a priority for anybody except verbally for political purposes. This study addresses the question of under what circumstances we can talk about a minority return being "successful". Given the complexities of the repatriation process, its dynamics, and the fact that no return could actually end at the moment of formal inhabitation at the prewar address, this article proposes that categories for minority repatriation should not be considered through the binary of "successful" and "unsuccessful" but along a continuum running from "complete" to "incomplete" types of sustainable return and to specific forms of unsustainable ("unsuccessful") return. Based on results obtained from field research in select Bosnian localities between 2010 and 2018, I argue that the term "return" has several facets which impact its sustainability and character.

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Section: The Successful Minority Return and Limitations Of Its Measursupporting

confidence: 70%

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After coming home: Forms and meanings of return in Dayton’s Bosnia and Herzegovina

Žíla¹

2019

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“…We find support for the social capital hypothesis as well. Related qualitative studies in Turkey (Çelik, ), Ukraine (Nikolko and Carment, ) and Bosnia (Belloni, ; Porobic, ) point to the role of community effort, yet ours is one of the first quantitative studies to demonstrate the complex relationship between the community variable and voluntary return. As expected, forced migrants from rural areas are more likely to desire community return and to return as a community.…”

Section: Discussion: Reversing Forced Migration In Bosnia and Beyondmentioning

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Peaceful Returns: Reversing Ethnic Cleansing after the Bosnian War

Stefanović¹,

Loizides

2017

International Migration

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This article focuses on post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina to investigate decisions of forced migrants to return home to their pre-conflict residences. We formulate a set of novel hypotheses on the demographic determinants of return as well as on the role of social capital, national ideology, integration, and war victimization. We use a 2013 Bosnian representative sample with 1,007 respondents to test our hypotheses. The findings support the expectation that gender and age have a major impact on return. Net of other factors, women and those experiencing wartime victimization are less likely to return. Older Bosnians with positive memories of pre-conflict interethnic relations are more likely to return than younger persons or those with negative memories. The probability of return for example for a 30-year-old woman with a permanent job is 11.54%, while for a 63-year-old man without a permanent job is 93.92%. Moreover, ethnic Bosniacs are more likely to return than ethnic Croats or ethnic Serbs while less nationalistic IDPs are more likely to return. We discuss the implications of our findings for post-war returns in Bosnia and for the comparative study of durable solutions to displacement particularly effort to support return in postconflict societies.

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“…As Porter and Haslam record [ 19 ], institutional accommodation in post-displacement situations tends to have a strong and negative impact on health outcomes. Further, Porobić has found that, while displacement generates threats to the well-being of refugees, social interventions and collective responses may in fact mitigate the experience of trauma and promote better health [ 20 ]. Evaluations of health conditions inside reception centres may therefore inform the delivery of humanitarian assistance and ease integration in the host state.…”

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Health Challenges in Refugee Reception: Dateline Europe 2016

Blitz

D’Angelo

Kofman

et al. 2017

IJERPH

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The arrival of more than one million migrants, many of them refugees, has proved a major test for the European Union. Although international relief and monitoring agencies have been critical of makeshift camps in Calais and Eidomeni where infectious disease and overcrowding present major health risks, few have examined the nature of the official reception system and its impact on health delivery. Drawing upon research findings from an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project, this article considers the physical and mental health of asylum–seekers in transit and analyses how the closure of borders has engendered health risks for populations in recognised reception centres in Sicily and in Greece. Data gathered by means of a survey administered in Greece (300) and in Sicily (400), and complemented by in-depth interviews with migrants (45) and key informants (50) including representatives of government offices, humanitarian and relief agencies, NGOs and activist organisations, are presented to offer an analysis of the reception systems in the two frontline states. We note that medical provision varies significantly from one centre to another and that centre managers play a critical role in the transmission of vital information. A key finding is that, given such disparity, the criteria used by the UNHCR to grade health services reception do not address the substantive issue that prevent refugees from accessing health services, even when provided on site. Health provision is not as recorded in UNHCR reporting but rather there are critical gaps between provision, awareness, and access for refugees in reception systems in Sicily and in Greece. This article concludes that there is a great need for more information campaigns to direct refugees to essential services.

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Daring ‘life‐return projects’ to post‐Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

After coming home: Forms and meanings of return in Dayton’s Bosnia and Herzegovina

After coming home: Forms and meanings of return in Dayton’s Bosnia and Herzegovina

Peaceful Returns: Reversing Ethnic Cleansing after the Bosnian War

Health Challenges in Refugee Reception: Dateline Europe 2016

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