Can You Run Away from Sorrow?: Mothers Left Behind in 1990s Belgrade

by Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic

Book Overview

How does emigration affect those left behind? The fall of Yugoslavia in the 1990s led citizens to look for a better, more stable life elsewhere. For the older generations, however, this wasn't an option. In this powerful and moving work, Ivana Bajic-Hajdukovic reveals the impact that waves of emigration from Serbia had on family relationships and, in particular, on elderly mothers who stayed.

With nowhere to go, and any savings given to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253050049
• ISBN13: 9780253050045
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"