Conversation with My Classmates
Displacement, War, and Survival
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13081607 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Éva Mikuska (0000-0003-2486-9643, University of Chichester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 75-75 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Genealogy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2313-5778 • E-ISSN: 2313-5778 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/genealogy7040075 |
| OpenAlex | W4387495872 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
Serbia is a country with a long tradition of emigration. The increase in the number of displaced people sharply rose in 1992 when all the diplomatic options to preserve Yugoslavia had failed. The ensuing ethnic conflict resulted in mass mobilization by young adults who were required to go to war, mainly against their will. The main purpose of the paper is twofold: to draw attention to the key challenges that displacement plays on individuals and to show how traumatic events, such as the war in Ukraine, can mobilize historical traumas. To elicit deeper and new understandings of how displacement impacts people, conversations with my elementary school classmates of Hungarian ethnic origin, including those who were serving the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) between 1991 and 1992, were analysed through the lens of the author’s autoethnographic positioning. It shows how life stories are co-produced through narrative inquiry and, by ‘co-reflecting’ on the past, it shows how they are simultaneously positioned within social categories of intersectionality, such as gender, social inequality, stayed and displaced. These reflections offer a broader understanding of how qualitative research can enrich existing knowledge of the effect of this specific conflict, and ethnic conflict in general
Conversation · Displaced person · Displacement (psychology · Emigration · Ethnic group · Inequality · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Refugee · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Psychology · Romani and Gypsy Studies
A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment
Extra-Territorial Ethnic Politics, Discourses and Identities in Hungary
Childhood and Schooling in (Post)Socialist Societies
Death Squads in Global Perspective
Inside Interviewing
Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States
A shock to thought
Co-constructions, co-performances and co-reflections in early years qualitative research
Joining the War
Dual citizenship and sovereignty
Peaceful Returns
Theorizing "Difficult Knowledge" in the Aftermath of the "Affective Turn
The passport as means of identity management
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |