Inner refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina and their perception of “home”

Abstract

The paper analyzes how the prewar "home" perceive refugees, who abandoned it as a result of the civil conflict in the nineties of the twentieth century. The largest migration wave after World War II caused massive population flight of Bosnian people not only outside the country, but also within the territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The Paper conducts a surfy of how the phenomenon of forced migrations changed the way of thinking of internally displaced persons who remain in the Bosnian territory.

Keywords

• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• inner refugees
• perception of “home”
• “myth of return”
• rural and urban repatriation.