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Incomplete Integration: Ethnicity and the Refugee and Internally Displaced Person Crisis in Postwar Serbia

Rinto, Conrad L, II
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1512038773569552

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2018, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Slavic and East European Studies.
The Yugoslav Wars were synonymous with ethnic conflict and infamous for ethnic cleansing. Fighting between ethnic paramilitaries and the targeting of civilians based on their ethnicity gave credence to the narrative that the wars were done so on the behalf of ethnicity and ethnic nationalism. While there is evidence to the links between ethnic nationalism and the Yugoslav Wars, this connection is also problematic. If ethnicity, and specifically communities of mixed ethnicities, was the overarching reason for conflict, then ethnicity itself should also be able to promote a form of privileged migration and integration during and after the Yugoslav Wars. To study the interconnection between ethnicity and integration, I will analyze the integration of ethnic Serb refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Serbia following the Yugoslav Wars. Receiving an estimated 537,937 refugees from the wars in Bosnia and Croatia and over 200,000 IDPs from the 1999 Kosovo War, Serbia has developed and implemented a plan for their integration. While most of these refugees and IDPs share the “same” Serb ethnicity of Serbia, the process for their integration has been long and incomplete. Impacted by economic considerations, the likeness of ethnicity and the role of ethnic nationalism falls to the wayside when the refugees find themselves in competition with the local Serbians for resources. Because of competition for funding and employment opportunities, the process of the refugees and IDPs integration has been drawn out and in the case of the IDPs from Kosovo unresolved. In the end, ethnicity may have provided refugees and IDPs with a country to migrate to during the wars, but ethnicity has a limited appeal when in competition for resources.
Theodora Dragostinova, Prof. (Advisor)
Andrea Sims, Prof. (Other)
84 p.
East European Studies
Serbia refugees IDPs Izbeglica interno raseljenih lica precani srbijanci

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  • Rinto, II, C. L. (2018). Incomplete Integration: Ethnicity and the Refugee and Internally Displaced Person Crisis in Postwar Serbia [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1512038773569552

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Rinto, II, Conrad. Incomplete Integration: Ethnicity and the Refugee and Internally Displaced Person Crisis in Postwar Serbia. 2018. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1512038773569552.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Rinto, II, Conrad. "Incomplete Integration: Ethnicity and the Refugee and Internally Displaced Person Crisis in Postwar Serbia." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1512038773569552

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