‘So we all cried together’: On the impact of exile on children from Croatia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15310/25:73632795

Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/14687968251334792" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/14687968251334792</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14687968251334792" target="_blank" >10.1177/14687968251334792</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

‘So we all cried together’: On the impact of exile on children from Croatia

Original language description

This study examines the issue of child refugees who fled the former Yugoslavia and spent a brief period of time in Czechoslovakia during the beginning of the 1990s. The adults who were formerly child refugees talk about their experiences in exile and how it affected their subsequent life trajectories. In 2023 and 2024, we conducted qualitative semi-structured interviews with 19 Czech minority former child refugees to gain their viewpoint on the situation. All of them spent several months in the former Czechoslovakia during the war in the former Yugoslavia. They ranged in age from seven to 17 at the time of war. We focus mainly on how they reconciled with being child refugees, coping mechanisms they employed at the time, and the effects of living in exile on them. The children’s ability to cope with exile was influenced by their age, wartime experience, and level of personal resilience. Their ability to communicate with peers about their experiences and feelings, spend time together, and establish routines for recreational and academic activities all became essential in assisting them in adjusting to life away from their families. This paper expands the limited body of literature on former child refugees by introducing a novel case study that has received minimal attention in existing research.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Ethnicities

ISSN

1468-7968

e-ISSN

1741-2706

Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

825-842

UT code for WoS article

001464117700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105002380297