Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: IMISCOE Research Series (IMIS)
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About this book
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.
Keywords
- Open access
- Voluntary return migration to a post-conflict society
- Re-evaluating the reason-emotion dichotomy in political theory
- Transmigrants, diaspora members, and returnees
- Reintegration in Bosnia and Herzegovina/post-conflict societies
- Obstacles of return migration and reintegration strategies
- Sustainability of return migration
- Decided or chosen return migration
- Emotionally motivated migration decision
- Non-economic motivation for migration decision
- Non-economic “rationality” and economic “irrationality”
- Citizenship as feeling
- Pragmatic, flexible, instrumental citizenship of host state
- Diasporic belonging in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Home for diaspora members in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Emotional citizenship of returnees to Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Transnational belonging of returnees
- Boundaries of belonging
Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Aida Ibričević 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. Ibričević 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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Decided Return Migration
Book Subtitle: Emotions, Citizenship, Home and Belonging in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Authors: Aida Ibričević
Series Title: IMISCOE Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58347-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-58346-9Published: 05 June 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-58349-0Due: 19 June 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-58347-6Published: 04 June 2024
Series ISSN: 2364-4087
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4095
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 257
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, Public Policy