International Migration and Remittances in the Balkans: The Case of Bulgaria

Mintchev, Vesselin

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“…Many are former students or graduates in Bulgaria who have not been able to return because of political changes in their home countries. (Mintchev 1999, 143)Almost two decades later, most of the former students who aspired to seek refuge in Bulgaria had already settled there. Now, most asylum seekers instead lack prior connections to Bulgaria and originally aimed to settle in other EU countries, where they possibly had prior connections through family and friends who had taken up residence in these countries earlier.…”

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Boundaries and Belonging Among Settled Minorities and Refugees in Bulgaria

Carlsson

2022

Nationalities Papers

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The importance of settled minorities for facilitating refugee belonging is seldom discussed in research on refugee integration. Drawing on scholarship on belonging, boundary-making, and bordering, this study investigates how boundaries are drawn between settled minorities and refugees in Bulgaria. Based on interviews with integration workers and organizations of settled minorities in a state with the largest historically present Muslim minority in the EU, an Arabic-speaking diaspora settled decades ago, and with minimal state involvement in refugee integration, the study shows how spatial, linguistic, and religious boundaries separate settled minorities from newly arrived refugees. Arabic-speaking diasporas are nevertheless witnessed to overcome the boundaries through geographical proximity, a shared language, and shared countries of origin, whereby they have functioned as facilitators of refugee belonging and inclusion. Furthermore, Muslim institutions led by Bulgarian Turks have functioned as spaces for refugee belonging. The study finds that settled minority communities have, despite multiple boundaries and some assimilatory discourses, contributed to refugee belonging in ways that in part has compensated for the state absence. The study calls for further research investigating the role of settled minorities in inclusionary processes in society.

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Section: “They Know the Situation”: Settled Arab Diasporas As Facilit...mentioning

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“…Many are former students or graduates in Bulgaria who have not been able to return because of political changes in their home countries. (Mintchev 1999, 143)…”

Section: “They Know the Situation”: Settled Arab Diasporas As Facilit...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Boundaries and Belonging Among Settled Minorities and Refugees in Bulgaria

Carlsson

2022

Nationalities Papers

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International Migration and Remittances in the Balkans: The Case of Bulgaria

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Boundaries and Belonging Among Settled Minorities and Refugees in Bulgaria

Boundaries and Belonging Among Settled Minorities and Refugees in Bulgaria

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