The Struggles of Bosnian Refugees

The 1990s saw horrendous atrocities, inclusing genocide, in the former Yugoslavia.  In “Bosnians in America: A Two-Sided Saga,” N.Y. Times reporter LYNETTE CLEMETSON (here) writes on some of the challenges facing Bosnian refugees who have resettled in the United States.  Accordng to the aricle, among other things,

—  From 1992 to this March, the State Department resettled 131,000 refugees from war-torn Bosnia and Herzegovina in the United States.

—  More than 9,000 were placed in Chicago, many of them clustered in the poorer quarters of the city’s North Side.

—  The multiple jobs that many of the parents juggle, combined with emotional struggles left over from the war, leave them little time or ability to understand the very American struggles of their children.

KJ