Includes bibliographical references and index.

Narrating history through the prism of �sverc -- The 'inner logic' of transnational relations -- Belonging through the prism of �sverc : making sense of the Yugoslav Succession Wars -- Novi Pazar as a mnemonic nucleus for the transmission of memory -- Recontextualizing narratives of �sverc within the discourse of economic collapse -- Speaking about the practice of �sverc.

"Analyzing informal trading practices and smuggling through the case study of Novi Pazar, this book explores how societies cope when governments no longer assume the responsibility for providing welfare to their citizens. How do economic transnational practices shape one's sense of belonging in times of crisis/precarity? Specifically, how does the collapse of the Ottoman Empire - and the subsequent migration of the Muslim Slav population to Turkey - relate to the Yugoslav Succession Wars during the 1990s? Using the case-study of Novi Pazar, a town on the Montenegro- Kosovo border which became a smuggling hub during the Yugoslav conflict, the book focuses on that informal market economy as a prism through which to analyze the strengthening of existing relations between the �emigr�e community in Turkey and the local Bosniak population in the Sand�zak region"-- Provided by publisher.

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Sandra King-Savic is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE) at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). She served as a human rights educator for Amnesty International, and conducted research for the Foreign Military Studies Office at the University of Kansas (KU) before receiving a Swiss National Foundation scholarship for her dissertation on the transversal relationship between migration and informal markets.

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