Some Characteristics of Daily Life of Women in a Divided City: Bosniac Women in Кosovska Мitrovica
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everyday life, Bosniak women, divided city, Kosovska MitrovicaAbstract
This paper presents the results of an exploratory field study on the everyday lives of women of Bosniak ethnicity in the ethnically divided city of Kosovska Mitrovica. The research was conducted in two cycles, in 2011 and 2018, using semi-structured interviews with twenty women and girls. The interviews focused on topics such as living conditions, family relationships (including those with partners and parents), leisure time, and perceptions of safety. The findings indicate that women’s daily lives are reduced to routinized patterns of behavior, movement within predefined paths (perceived as lower-risk), and social interactions primarily limited to members of their ethnic group or, occasionally, with neighbors from other ethnic communities in “controlled” or household settings. The main conclusion is that women from the Bosniak minority are doubly marginalized compared to women from the majority ethnic groups (Serbian and Albanian), which makes the negative features of everyday life in conflict-ridden and polarized social contexts even more evident in the case of ethnic minorities.
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