Strangers either way: the lives of Croatian refugees in their new home

The ethnology of individuals

The individual and her/his culture

The relational notion of identity

Case study: the Srijem Croats

Polyphony, hybridity, and levels of reading: methodological-epistemological remarks

The Srijem case as an instance of coethnic migrations

Srijem Croats talk about themselves

Exchanges

One's own and other people's

Nostalgia

Identity building in the local environment

"If they are doing well, we are doing well too": resignation

"We will never get over it": the Srijem sorrow

"There's no going back, you have to go forward": integration

Ethnocentrism of the newcomers

The older generation and the migration

Before the migration: "There was money! What a life! Real life!"

Reasons for leaving Srijem and making the decision to move

The resettlement: the grandfathers deciding

In the new surroundings

From domination to dependence

Constructing difference, identifying the self

Attribution of difference and symbolism of collective identity

"Good" and "bad" Croats or how to measure Croatian-ness

About the same thing from the other side: statements by the local population in Gradina

Between individual and collective integration into Croatian society

At the outset: categorizing the settlers

Activities of the migrant association

The leaders' dilemma: equal citizens or a "sect of Srijem Croats"

Community, identification, interaction

Antagonism between "the established" and "the outsiders"

The local population's perspective

The stereotyped rhetoric of difference

Stereotyping and individualization

The ease of person-to-person interaction

Conclusions

Epilogue: ethnologist and her/his public

To take the standpoint of the research subjects or not?

Reactions to the restitution of the research

Further unwanted consequences of restitution

How to protect the research subjects

In the end: the distinct position of an ethnologist at home.