Degree Type
Honors Capstone Project
Date of Submission
Spring 5-1-2018
Capstone Advisor
Azra Hromadžić
Honors Reader
Deborah Pellow
Capstone Major
Anthropology
Capstone College
Arts and Science
Audio/Visual Component
no
Capstone Prize Winner
no
Won Capstone Funding
no
Honors Categories
Social Sciences
Subject Categories
Anthropology | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Social and Cultural Anthropology
Abstract
Following the Bosnian War, over 100,000 Bosnians were resettled in the United States and over 6,000 of these refugees were resettled in the Central New York cities of Syracuse and Utica. Since their resettlement, these Bosnians have managed to transform the cities into places they can now call “home”. This was partly done through the phenomenon of place attachment which is the affective link that individuals establish with places. Literature from the fields of anthropology, environmental psychology, and refugee studies was reviewed in order to build the background of this study and an ethnographic study was conducted from Fall 2017 to Spring 2018. Over the course of participant observation and interviews, the anthropologist has chosen to focus on three means through which the Bosnian communities developed place attachment: house ownership, the process of cleaning, and familial and social relationships with others.
Recommended Citation
Hrustic, Amela, "“When are we going home?”: Home Attachment in the Bosnian Community of Central New York" (2018). Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All. 1225.
https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone/1225
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