Post-Dayton ethnic engineering in Croatia through the lenses of property issues and social transformations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6197017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolin Leutloff-Grandits (0000-0003-4669-0142, Moscow State University of Technologies and Management named after K.G. Razumovskiy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 485-502 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Genocide Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1462-3528 • E-ISSN: 1469-9494 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14623528.2016.1230299 |
| OpenAlex | W2532124360 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This article looks at post-Dayton Croatia, and deals with the question of why minority return was not as successful as anticipated. By examining the link between restitution of housing property and minority return, it argues that the perpetuation of ethno-national logics was not only based on local power holders who obstructed return, but was also the ‘infelicity’ of a less than well-thought-through plan of minority return directed by international organizations, which centred around the notion of returning people ‘to their homes of origin’, to their own property, and underestimated social and former socialist rights, or more generally ‘the right to have citizenship rights, including labour and education’, which could entail the need for geographical relocation. Referring to a case study in the former battleground region of Knin in Croatia, the article analyses the processes of property restitution, repossession and return, which were restricted to territorially defined former war areas (approximately only one third of Croatia’s territory), although many Serbs had lived in other parts of Croatia before the war, including the capital, Zagreb, and had only left their homes with the advent of the conflict. Many returnees could not return to urban areas due to the non-restitution of former socialist property rights, which existed during socialism and were concentrated largely in urban areas. Being confined to returning to the rural regions in the former war areas, in which economic options were meagre, sustainable minority return was furthermore obstructed by a lack of social and economic prospects. Many returnees therefore opted instead to exchange or sell their houses rather than permanently return to minority areas
Communism · Ethnic group · Internally displaced person · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Property rights · Refugee · Relocation · Restitution · Socialism · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Law
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |