Criminalized hospitality: The case of Velika Kladuša
The article examines how discourses of hospitality towards migrants/refugees are changing in Velika Kladuša, a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina close to the Croatian border. Since 2018, this city has been confronted with the presence of a large number of people on the move, and has seen the...
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| author | Lipovec-Čebron Uršula Fekonja Eva Ivnik Tina |
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| description | The article examines how discourses of hospitality towards migrants/refugees
are changing in Velika Kladuša, a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina close to
the Croatian border. Since 2018, this city has been confronted with the
presence of a large number of people on the move, and has seen the
development of a multi-layered tension between the spontaneous hospitality
of the local population and the increasingly repressive policies of the
European Union and restrictive local measures that criminalize not only
migrants/refugees but also all forms of solidarity with them. In the
introductory part of the article, the concept of hospitality is briefly
analysed on the basis of concepts presented in various anthropological
sources as well as in contemporary research on migration and hospitality. In
the succeeding chapters we explore the dynamics that arise where hospitality
intersects with the public and the private spheres. Our fieldwork material
from Velika Kladuša have shown that the attitude of the local population
towards migrants/refugees is influenced by the interference of authorities
(police, inspectors, etc.) in the area of hospitality, and indicates a
transformation of local hospitality practices towards migrants/refugees,
which we have defined as a shift from open to criminalized hospitality.
Under these changed circumstances, some residents of Velika Kladuša react to
the criminalization of hospitality with acceptance, some by negotiating with
it and others by openly opposing it. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a76403042d0b4001b300bcfd82cd96c92022-12-21T19:02:10ZengInstitute of Ethnography, SASA, BelgradeGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU0350-08612334-82592020-01-0168239741810.2298/GEI2002397L0350-08612002397LCriminalized hospitality: The case of Velika KladušaLipovec-Čebron Uršula0Fekonja Eva1Ivnik Tina2Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of LjubljanaDepartment of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of LjubljanaDepartment of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of LjubljanaThe article examines how discourses of hospitality towards migrants/refugees are changing in Velika Kladuša, a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina close to the Croatian border. Since 2018, this city has been confronted with the presence of a large number of people on the move, and has seen the development of a multi-layered tension between the spontaneous hospitality of the local population and the increasingly repressive policies of the European Union and restrictive local measures that criminalize not only migrants/refugees but also all forms of solidarity with them. In the introductory part of the article, the concept of hospitality is briefly analysed on the basis of concepts presented in various anthropological sources as well as in contemporary research on migration and hospitality. In the succeeding chapters we explore the dynamics that arise where hospitality intersects with the public and the private spheres. Our fieldwork material from Velika Kladuša have shown that the attitude of the local population towards migrants/refugees is influenced by the interference of authorities (police, inspectors, etc.) in the area of hospitality, and indicates a transformation of local hospitality practices towards migrants/refugees, which we have defined as a shift from open to criminalized hospitality. Under these changed circumstances, some residents of Velika Kladuša react to the criminalization of hospitality with acceptance, some by negotiating with it and others by openly opposing it.http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2020/0350-08612002397L.pdfmigrantsrefugeescriminalization of hospitalitybosnia and herzegovinaanthropology |
| spellingShingle | Lipovec-Čebron Uršula Fekonja Eva Ivnik Tina Criminalized hospitality: The case of Velika Kladuša Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU migrants refugees criminalization of hospitality bosnia and herzegovina anthropology |
| title | Criminalized hospitality: The case of Velika Kladuša |
| title_full | Criminalized hospitality: The case of Velika Kladuša |
| title_fullStr | Criminalized hospitality: The case of Velika Kladuša |
| title_full_unstemmed | Criminalized hospitality: The case of Velika Kladuša |
| title_short | Criminalized hospitality: The case of Velika Kladuša |
| title_sort | criminalized hospitality the case of velika kladusa |
| topic | migrants refugees criminalization of hospitality bosnia and herzegovina anthropology |
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