The immigrants from the area southern from the river of Ibar as per the attitudes of the inhabitants of the northern Kosovska Mitrovica

Baština

Pavlović Aleksandar¹ 

[1] Institut za srpsku kulturu, Priština, Leposavić;

关键词: indigenes;    immigrants;    identity;    everyday life;    serbs;    albanians;    kosovska mitrovica;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The author is presenting in this paper the preliminary results of the research of the relationships of Serbian population in the northern Kosovska Mitrovica living there before the war had been commenced in 1999 toward Serbs settled the town after the war, by moving from the wider area southern from the river of Ibar. The objective of the paper is to provide a contribution of the ethnographic material conceptualization based on field work in order to take into account the dynamics of the construction process of intragroup identities among the members of Serbian population inhabited in the part of the town northern from the river of Ibar, in the area which is to be crisis-stricken, conditionally speaking a border one, but multi-ethnic as well. From theoretical point of view, the author relies on social-constructivist approach of identity study, as per which identities are changeable, situationally conditioned, and subject to negotiation, where an important role is played by interaction, self-identification, and identification by others, or so-called 'neighbouring discourse', and relationships of power and domination. The field research was performed on the limited number of respondents sample, mostly among the members of middle generations of Serbs in northern Kosovska Mitrovica, which can be named as indigenes, based on a structural and semi-structural interview, which means the conversation with the respondents was taken by clearly defined questions, and based on the reminder with indicated themes and aims within each of the themes. The research results show that in the attitudes of the indigenes a dichotomy we/they is to be conspicuous with regard to Serbian population emigrated from the area southern from the river of Ibar. The immigrants are being experienced in the unbreakable bond with the complex everyday life in northern Kosovska Mitrovica full of security-related risks, uncertain tomorrow, economic passivity, and finally refugee-related reality. It is about the facts which considerably changed the social reality in the town in the last fifteen years, from which the perception of the immigrants as the different ones was undoubtedly underlined by the relationships toward the appeared changes. As per the attitudes of the respondents, the immigrants are appearing as different ones first of all from culturological point of view, as the inhabitants from their local surroundings brought different value system and different behaviour. In that sense, they were connected with the ones being percepted as essentially others, these are the Albanians. These differences do not weight ethnicity, which means the indigenes experience the immigrants as Serbs, as the members of the same ethnic group with which they are connected with the feeling of solidarity comparing with the opposed Albanian population. By attributing them of certain differences, the indigenes are not only effecting the identification of the immigrants, but at the same time, are confirming their own indigenous identity as well. The respondents were emphasizing they had been born in Kosovska Mitrovica, and they are living there a majority of their life, explicitly or implicitly appropriating for himself the name old Mitrovcani. The feeling of dignity regarding their indigenous identity is emphasized with the respondents in the context of negative qualifications being attributed to immigrants, where they are seen in reverse angle: as the holders of real values, guardians of pre-war town's spirit, tolerance, restraint, honesty etc.

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