Full Description
Reflecting on three decades of post-conflict recovery in the Balkans, this incisive book investigates the long-term effects of war displacement on women across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Kosovo.
Selma Porobić and Brad K. Blitz draw upon four different research streams produced by a large, cross-national, and multidisciplinary team of contributors to compare the experiences of different categories of war-uprooted and/or women forced migrants. Providing a gender-inclusive focus on psychosocial wellbeing, chapters consider the long-term impacts of complex trauma on internally displaced persons, returnees, and refugees throughout the whole cycle of displacement, return, and reintegration. Uncovering alarming risk and protective factors linked to protracted political and socioeconomic instability in the region, the book ultimately offers lessons for a wider post-war recovery framework that prioritises women's agency, psychosocial health, and trans-generational recovery.
Featuring interdisciplinary, cross-country, and multi-methods research, this insightful book will prove an invaluable resource to students and scholars of psychology, sociology, migration, gender, and human rights law. Its critical assessment of durable solutions for displaced populations will also benefit practitioners focused on peace building, humanitarianism, and development.
Contents
Contents:
Preface xii
1 Introduction to Forced Migration, Gender and Wellbeing 1
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2 The role of socio-demographic and mental health factors
among women forced migrants in post-Yugoslav states 22
Anela Hasanagić, Siniša Volarević and Enver Gashi
3 Life histories of ethnic violence, displacement and
recovery among women in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia 62
Selma Porobić and Gordana Balaban
4 Ethnography of everyday life among female forced
migrants in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia 87
Selma Porobić, Stef Jansen, Nina Bosankić and Ljiljana Đajić
5 Impact of social protection and psychosocial provision
on integration of displaced women in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo 143
Jagoda Petrović, Danica Ćirić, Seb Bytyci and Driton Zequiri
6 Caught on the Balkan route: refugees from the Middle
East, Africa and Asia 182
Ivana Ljuština and Min Ji Kim
7 Conclusion to Forced Migration, Gender and Wellbeing 196
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Epilogue 212
References 216
Index 232
