204 Pages
by
Routledge
This title was first published in 2000: Although the main tragedy of the wars which first erupted in 1991 in former Yugoslavia lies within the Balkan region, the war's shadow is global in outreach. Using a mainly ethnographic approach, this is an exploration of how the Balkan wars have affected the everyday life and mental health in particular of Serbian immigrants and their families in... Read more
On becoming involved - an autobiographical ethnography; generating interpretive information from ethnographic fieldwork; on interpretation of information; "we Serbs are obsessed with maps" - the experience of boundaries; towards a new blood and belonging; the experience of long distance devastation - globalization of worry; from trauma to re-affirmation - health and community for Serbian Australians.
Biography
Nicholas G. Procter
