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[1] I have not been able to verify this point. [2] So-called ‘Councils of Integration’ were established in a number of municipalities with the backing of the state in order to counsel the municipalities in matters concerning ethnic minorities andintegration. [3] In the text, the Serbian-Vlach community in Denmark will be called Vlach when itrelates to the specific minority group, and Serb/Serbian when it relates to traits which are common to all Serbsor to Serbian immigrants in Denmark. [4] While their parents were industrial workers and bus-drivers, the younger generationprefers jobs within information technology, administration or organisation and management. Some have concentrated on vocational training and are now skilled workers (bricklayers or carpenters), while the girls prefer jobs as nurses, nursing auxiliaries, home helps or secretaries (Serbian male, 2008). [5] Graduate students participating in Geography field courses in 2006 and 2008 contributedwith inspiring observations and opened my eyes to many issues that were later discussed with other respondents. [6] Mainly those who have not worked sufficient years in Denmark toobtain a full Danish state pension. [7] Many of the Vlach women who were interviewed had worked in a large factory producing medical equipment, in dry-cleaning or as fruit-packers. [8] The frequent mugging of Yugoslav guestworkers by motorcycle gangs reported ininterviews with former gang members are revealing for the degree of xenophobia to be found in certain layers of the Danish working class in that period (see Krüger 1976). However, such racist clashes are actively downplayedby the Vlach community. [9] For a more detailed account of the pomana ritual, see http://romani.kfunigraz.ac.at/rombase [10] According to Smith (2004: 129), 81 per cent of marriages among people fromex-Yugoslavia are with a partner with roots in the same homeland. [11] This was confirmed in an interview with the head of the Danish congregation. [12] In the eyes of my interviewees, Milosevic’s refusal to sign the Rambouillet Accord in1999 was indicative of his lack of willingness to end the war. [13] Their sympathies for the Serbian cause can be seen on the internet blog of one of theFriendship Associations, where a letter of sympathy from one of the leaders of the Danish People’s Party is posted. References Arsenijevic, V. (2007) ‘“Vi” og Albanerne, en kort og afsluttet historie om et systematisk ødelagt forhold’,Dagbladet Politiken, 16 August 2007. Ballhausen, T.K. and Tonnesen, A. (2008) Identitet og Tilhørsforhold på Tværs af Grænser. Roskilde: University ofRoskilde, unpublished Master’s thesis in Geography. Bijelic, B. (2005) ‘Nationalism, and the reordering of women’s power’, in Ramet, S. and Pavlakovic, V. (eds)Serbia Since 1989: Politics and Society under Milosevic and After. Seattle and London: University ofWashington Press, 286–304. Buciek, K. and Juul, K. (2008) ‘We are here, yet we are not here; the heritage of excluded groups’, in Graham, B.and Howard, P. (eds) The Ashgate Companion to Heritage and Identity. Aldershot: Ashgate, 105–25. Eastmond, M. (1993) ‘Reconstructing lives: Chilean refugee women and the dilemmas of exile’, in Buijs, G. (ed.) Migrant Women: Crossing boundaries and Changing Identities. Oxford: Berg,
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