"Return Home": different courses of the repatriation process in Bosnia-Herzegovina (chosen case studies)
Abstract
The paper analyses the course of the repatriation process in post-Dayton Bosnia and Hercegovina. Based on results obtained from field research in chosen localities, it presents a typology of success of the repatriation process.
The aim of the paper is primarily to shed new light on the local level and, therefore, emphasis is put on the perception of the situation on the part of the repatriates, the organizers of the repatriation, representatives of state administration (mostly employees of district offices) and employees of international organizations. These partial "probes" are to serve not only as an attempt to portray the ethno-demographic situation in particular regions but, at the same, to show the differences between what the International Community presented as its success in handling the repatriation process (the "macro-view") and how this what actually evaluated on the part of the "objects" of the help - i.e. the repatriates themselves (the "micro-view").