The purpose of this study was to assess how Bosnian refugees are adjusting to life in the United States after a decade or more upon resettlement from Bosnia to the U.S. Study participants (N = 166) completed a demographic questionnaire and instruments related to depression (Cent…
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Despite an influx of refugees into the United States during the last few decades, there has not been a parallel growth in the study of refugees there. Further, most studies of refugees remain under the rubric of ‘immigrant’ studies, and sometimes even non-immigrant minority stud…
The central premise of the present study concerned the motivational factors that mediate social identification with a nationalistic identity and the subsequent cognitive information processing biases, and expression of intergroup differentiation and discrimination. Consistent wi…
The dissertation explores the process of social reconstruction by women in a Bosnian community. It looks at how Bosnian women 'pick up the pieces' of their lives in the aftermath of a three and a half year war. The focus is on women's practices and survival strategies, and their…
This thesis seeks to answer the question of the meaning of the destruction of the urban environment in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. The inquiry begins with the destruction of the Old Bridge in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina. This event constitutes an exemplary instance of the destructio…
This thesis is an intellectual history that examines the identity development of the Bosnian Serbs at the turn of the twentieth century. It argues that during Austria-Hungary peacetime occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1878 to 1914, an increasing number of Bosnian Serb intel…
The current study examined family-level intervening variables hypothesized to link severe economic adversities in post-war Bosnia with adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems. The study design essentially replicated the family stress model in post-war Bosnia. This st…
The aim of this study was to explore the components of smoking behavior among a sample of resettled Bosnian refugees: motives for smoking, reasons for quitting smoking, psychological and physical health and the transtheoretical model, across the Bosnian culture. Questionnaires w…
Bosnian women war refugees are not only trauma survivors, but are actively engaged in economic and social practices that shape their American sites of relocation. These economic activities---wage labor, and unremunerated volunteer and kin labor---are embedded in a moral framewor…
Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) faces a changing cultural landscape resulting from its civil war. New categorical descriptions emerged as a part of the foreign imposed Dayton Peace Agreement. Desire to move into European Union membership inadvertently exposed discriminatory structure a…
The number of immigrants from different countries has increased in the United States in the past few years. Fargo/ Moorhead area was enriched with individuals and families from various post-war and undeveloped countries. Immigrants face challenges that are far more significant t…
This dissertation examines the ways in which meanings and practices of gender are changing for Bosnian Muslim refugees in Vermont, and it argues that the changes are mediated both by ideals of modernity and by the particular context of exit and reception this group has experienc…