Maja Korac is Reader in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London. She is author of Captives of Their Sex: Social Identity of Young Rural Women Between Traditional Culture and Contemporary Values (1991, Belgrade: Institute of Sociological Research, University of Belgrade; published in Serbo-Croatian), Linking Arms: Women and War in post-Yugoslav States (1998, Uppsala: Life & Peace Institute), and co-editor of Feminists under Fire: Exchanges across War Zones (2003, Toronto: Between the Lines).

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Reconstructing Life, Place and Identity

• Problems with Centring on the State
• Rethinking Refugeehood: Focusing on Processes, Intersections and Agency
• Liminality and Refugee Agency
• Lived-In Worlds of Refugees: From Contexts to Processes
• Policy 'Solutions' and Types of Agency They Engender
• A Note on Method: Focus on Refugee Voices
• An Outline of the Book

Chapter 1. The Question of 'Home': Place-making and Emplacement

• Place, Home and Homeland
• Territorially Bounded Places and Identities: Importance and Meanings
• Orientation to Place and the Politics of Belonging
• Links between Peoples, Places and Cultures: The Question of Community
• Group and Cultural Identity as an Organising Principle for Incorporation
• The Question of Community Organisations
• Transnational Practices of Place-Making
• Transnationalism and 'Homelessness'
• Ties with the New Home
• Taking Control and Reconstructing Life

Chapter 2. Experiences of Displacement: Force, Choice and the Creation of Solutions

• The Mass Exodus of People from War-torn Yugoslavia: The Quest for Ethnic Purity and Territorial Cleansing
• How One Makes a Decision to Leave and Where to Go?
• Flight and Creation of Solutions: Agency and the Role of Social Networks

Chapter 3. Regaining Control over Life: Dependency, Self-sufficiency and Agency

• Following the Rules in the Netherlands
• Struggling to Survive in Italy
• Problems with Refugee Assistance

Chapter 4. Negotiating Continuity and Change: The Process of Reconstructing Life

• Bonding Networks and the Emplacement of Refugees in Rome and Amsterdam
• Bridging Social Networks and the Emplacement of Refugees in Amsterdam and Rome
• Social Networks and Emplacement: The Process of Becoming 'of Place'

Chapter 5. Transnational Lives of Refugees, Questions of Citizenship, Belonging and Return

• Transnational and 'Glocal' Ties - a Sense of Continuity and Belonging
• Transnational Strategies of Survival and Betterment
• Transnationalism and the Changing Notion of Return
• Citizenship: A Status or a Practice?
• New Meanings of Citizenship, Belonging and Emplacement
• Emplacement: A Process of Pluralisation

Appendix I

• Refugees Interviewed in Rome
• Refugees Interviewed in Amsterdam

Appendix II

• Community Organisations of Nationals from the Yugoslav Successor States in Rome and Amsterdam

Appendix III

• Contacts Made with NGOs, Church Organisations, Governmental and International Organisations in Italy and the Netherlands

Appendix IV

• The Social Characteristics and Legal Status of the Refugees in Rome and Amsterdam

Appendix V

• The Ethnic Background of the Refugees Interviewed

Bibliography

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