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Sandra King-Savic
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Dr.
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King-Savic
First name
Sandra
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sandra.king-savic@unisg.ch
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+41 71 224 2561
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PublicationTransnational Black Market Practices between Novi Pazar, Serbia, and Turkey : Re-Constructing Social Relations through the Prism of Sverc (Smuggling)How does the collapse of the Ottoman Empire - and subsequent migration of the Muslim Slav population to Turkey - relate to the War of Yugoslav Succession during the 1990's? This question forms the core of the following dissertation that examines how the War of Yugoslav Succession influenced transnational relations between the émigré Bosniak community of Turkey, and those Bosniaks who remained in Southeastern Europe. Bereft of acceptance among their co-denizens of different religions at the turn of the century, and again in 1991, some Bosniaks turned to Turkey for refuge, and then material aid. As such, the following dissertation focuses on Novi Pazar's black and informal market economy during the Wars of Yugoslav Succession as a factor that rekindled, and/or strengthened existing relations between the émigré community in Turkey and the local Bosniak population in the Sandzak region. Thus, the goal of this dissertation demonstrates the interactive nature between the state, local, and émigré communities. During the past three years, I examined how material encounters influenced social relations in detached spaces and how interviewees specifically make sense of these connections in view of the constituting informal economy in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995. Reflecting on Thomas Faist, Nina Glick-Schiller, and Joseph Rouse, I analyze how transnational practices shape a community locally. To answer the overarching question of how transnational practices affected local relations in southern Serbia, I conducted ethnographic research in the form of participant observation in- and-out of the field between 2012 and 2016, conducted in-depth, open-ended, semi-structured interviews, undertook research at the Jugoslav Archive, the Historical Archive of Belgrade, the Archive of Serbia, the news stacks at the National Library in Belgrade, and administered 500 questionnaires. The following dissertation sheds light on how societies cope when governments no longer assume the responsibility of providing welfare to their citizens.Type: doctoral thesis