Decided Return Migration

This open access book creates conceptual links between political emotions, citizenship, home and belonging. The book describes that, in the case of decided return and reintegration to a post-conflict society and a fragmented state, like Bosnia and Herzegovina, the returnees do not conceptualize the emotional dimension of their BiH citizenship as home and belonging as this citizenship does not make them feel safe and secure. Instead, feeling at home is found in family, place and time, while belonging is categorized as ethnic, religious, relational, landscape, linguistic, and economic. The emotional dimension of the home state citizenship is constituted through a wide spectrum of emotions, ranging from anger, frustration, fear, guilt, shame, disappointment, nostalgia, powerlessness, to patriotic love, pride, defiance, joy, happiness and hope. This book provides a valuable resource to students and scholars of migration and diaspora studies, as well as political scientists, human geographers and anthropologists.

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Discusses returnees' motivation to return and their reintegration Creates connections between political emotions, citizenship, home, and belonging Examines what it means to feel at home and to belong in a post-conflict setting

Autorentext

Aida Ibricevic is a political scientist and migration researcher with a wide range of research interests, including political emotions and migration, citizenship, external voting, return migration, women in the diaspora, migration in the healthcare and ICT sectors, diasporic knowledge transfer, and diaspora engagement policies. She publishes her work in scholarly journals and provides peer-review to a number of international academic journals, including International Migration (Wiley) and Emotions, History, Culture, Society (Brill). Aida's academic credentials include a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Middlebury College in the United States, a Master of Arts in Economics from Central European University (CEU) in Hungary, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Istanbul Bilgi University in Turkey. Ibricevic is affiliated as a Global Fellow at the PRIO Migration Center, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway. She is proud of her "BiH Diaspora Discussions," at www.aidaibricevic.com, a blogging space devoted to contextualizing contemporary academic and policy debates within the realities of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian diaspora.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Conceptual framework.- Chapter 3. Decided return and reintegration in a post-conflict society.- Chapter 4. The emotional dimension of BiH citizenship.- Chapter 5. Losing, creating and re-creating home and belonging.- Chapter 6. Connecting the dots: Conceptual model.- Chapter 7. The road less travelled: What can be learnt?.