From a Multi-Ethnic Blending to Hegemony : The Reconstruction of Ethno-Demographic and Spatial Impacts of the Civil War in Bosnia and Hercegovina
Abstract
The presented article aims at combining two approaches - i.e. at applying the bottom-up and top-down perspective - in order to reconstruct the current national structure of Bosnia and Hercegovina as accurately as possible. The first part of the paper offers a quantitative analysis of the repatriates and identifies the differences in minority repatriation to Bosnia and Hercegonia and to the so-called Republika Srpska, repatriation success in the case of the three constituent nations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the differences in repatriation to the urban or, in contrast, to the countryside environment.
The second part of the article focuses on the assessment of the consequences of forced migration in the context of the not-exactly-successful minority repatriation, i.e. it offers an analysis of the demographic and territorial impacts on the area changes of the spatial definition of the constituent nations. The last part of the paper, then, is an attempt to present a reconstruction of the national structure of the country that would be as accurate as possible.