A Field Study of Serbian Refugees from Croatia and Bosnia: Implications for Domestic and Foreign Relations Policy (Research Brief)

Some of the general questions explored during the grant include: • To what degree do Serbian refugees and displaced persons exhibit strong nationalistic and /or chauvinistic tendencies? • What are refugees attitudes regarding possible return to their former homes? • Which political elements do refugees support in Serbia? • What are refugee attitudes regarding American and Western foreign policy vis-àvis the Balkans and former Yugoslavia? • How do refugees perceive the concepts of “democracy” and “free markets”? • How similar are the attitudes of refugees to those of the Serbian public in general? • How do refugees view other ethnic groups in former Yugoslavia and their host population in Serbia proper?

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Andrei Simic, of the University of Southern California, was a 2005-06 Short-Term Travel Grants fellow.