DET FREMMEDE HJEM: Bosniske flygtninges illusioner om hjemlandet
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7146/ta.v0i41.107470Resumé
This article explores a range of illusions
about refugee return, both from the
perspective of political institutions and
refugees themselves. The political repatriation
discourse in Western European
host countries is based upon illusory conceptions
of people’s rootedness in specific
territories and of return as an unproblematic
re-establishment of the preflight conditions.
Whereas refugee diasporas widely share this
nostalgic celebration of the “return to the
past”, for Bosnian refugees in Denmark the
idealization of their homeland and “the myth
of return”, rather than leading to the actual
return to the country of origin, serve as a
source of meaning, hope for normality, and
community in exile. For the refugees who,
voluntarily or involuntarily, do return to
Bosnia-Hercegovina “home-coming” is an
experience of disillusionment due to various
war-related transformations of the Bosnian
society, difficult socio-economic conditions
found upon return, and discrimination and
resentment from the remaining population.
The returnees feel like strangers in their own
country, and this in turn gives rise to longing
for emigration and romanticized images of
their past refugee life abroad.
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