Managing mass migration after the war: The case of Sarajevo's unification in 1996
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F22%3A10443229" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/22:10443229 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=ZbIXBTwtmE" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=ZbIXBTwtmE</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102595" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102595</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Managing mass migration after the war: The case of Sarajevo's unification in 1996
Original language description
This study analyses the immediate consequences of the transition from war to peace in Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia-Herzegovina. It focuses on the management of a tense security situation related to the postwar unification of the city, which was divided between warring belligerents during the Bosnian conflict. Firstly, it shows how ethno-nationalist leaders' visions and practices of ethnic homogenization continued after the end of the war as the result of the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA). The principal tool of their postwar 'ethnic engineering' endeavour was to maintain and generate an atmosphere of fear, based on anticipated discrimination, maltreatment, and persecution from former belligerents. Secondly, this study explores how experienced wartime violence and related transformations in personal identities and social positioning activated latent boundaries between groups and made individuals more disposed to forms of group identification. As a result, the mass migration of people out and into Sarajevo strengthened the grip over the territories assigned to former adversaries by the DPA. This article argues that studying the mutually constitutive roles of the elite's ethnic engineering as well as ordinary people's experiences is necessary to understand how organised wartime violence transformed into structural, institutional, and other less visible forms during the postwar period. Ethno-nationalists' discourses and points of view demonstrate how wartime violence channelled the postwar lives of Sarajevo's residents into a desired spatio-political arrangement.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Political Geography
ISSN
0962-6298
e-ISSN
1873-5096
Volume of the periodical
96
Issue of the periodical within the volume
June
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
1-11
UT code for WoS article
000766241200006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85123585563