Lexington Books
Pages: 210
Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-7936-2306-5 • Hardback • October 2020 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-7936-2308-9 • Paperback • December 2022 • $41.99 • (£35.00)
978-1-7936-2307-2 • eBook • October 2020 • $39.50 • (£30.00)
Ana Croegaert is a research affiliate at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago
Chapter 1: Refugee Women and a Chicago Volag
Chapter 2: Making Home and Family after War, and from a Distance
Chapter 3: Ajla in Stolac
Chapter 4: Shifting Time in The Social Life of Bosnian Coffee
Chapter 5: American Balkanism and the Optics of Violence
Chapter 6: A Trade in Stories
Chapter 7: #BiHInSolidarity / Be in Solidarity
Ana Croegaert’s Bosnian Refugees in Chicago: Gender, Performance, and Post-War Economies provides a rich, multi-faceted portrait of Bosnian refugee life in early 21st century Chicago. It documents individuals’ struggles to come to terms with the injuries of war, ethnic violence, and displacement in the former Yugoslavia, focusing in particular on women’s efforts to create domesticity and social connection. Drawing on intimate observations and interviews in homes, coffee shops and public spaces, as well as analysis of social media, public events, and artistic expression, Bosnian Refugees in Chicago provides a deeply moving and politically astute account of the “refugee” experience in an era of austerity politics and heightened racial tension in the United States.— Jane Collins, University of Wisconsin
This book should prove accessible and engaging to broader audiences—perhaps especially for 1.5- and second-generation Bosnian Americans and those who have become intertwined in our families—as well as specialists in diaspora studies, U.S. refugee resettlement, human rights, and whiteness studies.
— Gender and Society
This book is a welcome and valuable contribution to the literature on Bosnian and other Balkan diasporas and to broader diaspora studies. It will appeal to social and cultural anthropologists, economic anthropologists, scholars of migration and diaspora, and scholars specializing in the region as well as to members of the Bosnian diaspora in the United States.
— American Ethnologist
Bosnian Refugees in Chicago demonstrates an exceptional and well-written ethnographic analysis that moves, like Bosnian refugees themselves, between different countries, spheres, and political contexts.
— Journal of Linguistic Anthropology