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Soon after they moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, this book's protagonists were overcome by the 1992-1995 war and the disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia. More than a decade later, in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, they felt they were collectively stuck in a time warp where nothing seemed to be as it should be. Starting from everyday concerns, this book paints a compassionate yet critical portrait of people's sense that they were in limbo, trapped in a seemingly endless ""Meantime."" Ethnographically investigating yearnings for ""normal lives"" in the European semi-peripher

Ethnology --- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 --- Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) --- Social conditions

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Based on anthropological studies across the globe, this book explores the experiences and contested meanings of home for people whose lives are characterized by migration related to varying forms of violence. Taking seriously the political implications and exploitation of discourses of home in the transnational processes that connect yet differently affect the movement of people and capital, it challenges the sedentarist assumption that territoriality and nation are necessarily the primary determinants of identification. However, it does not replace this sedentarism with a free floating, place

Assimilation (Sociology) --- Home --- Emigration and immigration --- War and society --- Assimilation (Sociologie) --- Foyer --- Emigration et immigration --- Guerre et société --- Psychological aspects --- Psychological aspects. --- Case studies. --- Aspect psychologique --- Cas, Etudes de --- Assimilation (Sociology). --- Identity (Psychology). --- Identity (Psychology) --- Society and war --- War --- Sociology --- Civilians in war --- Sociology, Military --- Social psychology --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Cultural assimilation --- Anthropology --- Socialization --- Acculturation --- Cultural fusion --- Minorities --- Social aspects