Global Dramas in the Midwest Metropolis: Representations, Dilemmas, and Decisions about Violence among Bosnian Refugees in Chicago

#BiHInSolidarity/BeInSolidarity:BosnianAmericans,Islam, and Whiteness in Post‐9/11America

“…When I read Sefer's and Buljusmić‐Kustura's essays, I was struck by the references to their perceptions that Americans view them as “dirty” “barbaric” immigrants and Muslims. When I interviewed women refugee‐immigrants in Chicago 10 years earlier, they shared similar sentiments (Croegaert ). The women I had interviewed belonged to Sefer's and Buljusmić‐Kustura's parents’ generation.…”

Who Has Time forĆejf?Postsocialist Migration and Slow Coffee in Neoliberal Chicago

“…Studies of the Yugoslav refugee diaspora have focused overwhelmingly on men's transnational nationalist organizing (Hockenos 2003; Skrbis 1999; Winland 2002). Yet, women comprise more than half of the recent Yugoslav refugee adult population, and they have played a key role in establishing and managing relocation networks (Croegaert 2010). Postconflict studies of Yugoslavia have treated women's experiences both through feminist (Nikolić‐Rištanovič 2000) and gender‐focused (Žarkov 2007) lenses.…”

Two decades of Bosnian place-making in St. Louis, Missouri

“…As a relevant addition, though, Cheah et al (2013) noted the importance of a receptive host community in facilitating these processes. Even how Bosnians perceived American attitudes toward them was found to be significant in the adaptation processes of newcomers (Matsuo et al 2009;Cheah et al 2010Cheah et al , 2011Croegaert 2010;Matsuo and Poljarevic 2011).…”

“…Predictably, individuals who mastered English reported greater satisfaction with their new lives in the USA (Cheah et al 2011;Matsuo and Poljarevic 2011). Many scholars have examined the employmentseeking struggles of Bosnian immigrants and refugees (Waxman 2001;Franz 2003aFranz , 2003bColic-Peisker and Walker 2003;Bauder 2005;ColicPeisker 2005;Ives 2005;Croegaert 2010). The combination of limited language skills and unrecognized credentials caused downward economic mobility and the stress that comes with it (Franz 2003a;Colic-Peisker and Walker 2003;Colic-Peisker 2005;Croegaert 2010;Poljarevic 2011), though Franz (2003a) found that women dealt with this situation better than men because they were less likely to define themselves by the work they did.…”