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Author Bajić-Hajduković, Ivana, author

Title "Can you run away from sorrow?" : mothers left behind in 1990s Belgrade / Ivana Bajić-Hajduković
Published Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 143 pages)
Series New anthropologies of Europe
New anthropologies of Europe
Contents The locust years -- A bite of Yugoslavia : food, memory, and migration -- Weaving the order : homes and everyday practices of Belgrade mothers -- Inalienable possessions : Serbian remittances -- Keeping in touch : "can you really run away from sorrow?" -- Family revisited : the consequences of migration
Summary "How does emigration affect those left behind? The fall of Yugoslavia in the 1990s led citizens to look for a better, more stable life elsewhere. For the older generations, however, this wasn't an option. In this powerful and moving work, Ivana Bajić-Hajduković reveals the impact that waves of emigration from Serbia had on family relationships and, in particular, on elderly mothers who stayed. With nowhere to go, and any savings given to their children to help establish new lives, these seniors faced the crumbling country, waves of refugees from Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, NATO bombing, the failing economy, and the trial and ouster of Slobodan Milosevic. "Can You Run Away from Sorrow?" poignantly depicts the intimacy of family relationships sustained through these turbulent times in Serbia and through the next generation's search for a new life. Bajić-Hajduković explores transformations in family intimacy during everyday life practices-in people's homes, in their food and cooking practices, in their childcare, and even in remittances and the exchange of gifts. In doing so, "Can You Run Away from Sorrow?" illustrates not only the tremendous sacrifice of parents, but also their profound sense of loss-of their families, their country, their stability and dignity, and most importantly, of their own identity and hope for what they thought their future would be"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (EBSCOhost, viewed April 15, 2021)
Subject Families -- Serbia -- Belgrade -- History
Mothers -- Serbia -- Belgrade -- History
Emigration and immigration -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
Emigration and immigration
Families
Mothers
SUBJECT Serbia -- History -- 1992- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95000815
Subject Serbia
Serbia -- Belgrade
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020000309
ISBN 9780253050052
0253050057
9780253051356
0253051355