Kerim Borovina
| Interview | Mohammad A. S. Sarhangi |
| Interview language | German |
| Country of origin | Bosnia |
| Year of migration | 1994 |
| Interview length | 03:04:00 |
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Sequencing
| 1 | Introduction Kerim Borovina | ||||
| 2 | Birth, family and childhoofd in Foča, Jugoslavia | ||||
| 2.1 | Memories of childhood in Foča | ||||
| 2.2 | Occupation of the parents | ||||
| 2.3 | Living with the grandmother | ||||
| 2.4 | The village where father was born | ||||
| 2.5 | Illnesses and allergies during childhood | ||||
| 2.6 | The games | ||||
| 2.7 | Siblings | ||||
| 2.8 | Education of the parents | ||||
| 3 | Political atmosphere in Jugoslavia before the war | ||||
| 3.1 | Marginalisation of religious minorities | ||||
| 3.2 | Role of religion in Jugoslovia during Tito's reign | ||||
| 3.3 | Religion as identity | ||||
| 3.4 | Neo-traditionalism, resistance of marginalised groups | ||||
| 3.5 | Bosnian culture in the 80ies and pluralism | ||||
| 3.6 | Interreligiosity | ||||
| 4 | The War | ||||
| 4.1 | Living in Foča and the Bosnian War | ||||
| 4.2 | Experience of war for bosniak people | ||||
| 4.3 | Quitting school | ||||
| 4.4 | Living in the basement | ||||
| 5 | Escape | ||||
| 5.1 | Escape with panic | ||||
| 5.2 | Staying in father's village with family and relatives | ||||
| 5.3 | Take-over of the city by militants | ||||
| 5.4 | Referendum about independent Bosnia | ||||
| 5.5 | Leaving the village | ||||
| 5.6 | Two parallel escape-stories | ||||
| 5.6.1 | Escape of grandmother during the Second World War | ||||
| 5.6.2 | Muslim massacre | ||||
| 5.6.3 | Grandmother's trauma | ||||
| 5.6.4 | Escape without goodbye | ||||
| 5.6.5 | Repeating the experience of escape of the grandmother | ||||
| 5.6.6 | Grandmother in a refugee camp during Second World War | ||||
| 5.6.7 | Grandfather as a partisan during Second World War | ||||
| 5.6.8 | Meeting the grandparents in Croatia | ||||
| 5.7 | Trip to Sarajevo | ||||
| 5.8 | Road closure and interviews by paramilitary | ||||
| 5.9 | Uncertainty of situation in 1990 and the beginning of war | ||||
| 5.10 | On the bus to Sarajevo | ||||
| 5.11 | Execution of elites | ||||
| 5.12 | Concentration camp in Foča | ||||
| 5.13 | Systemic rape of women | ||||
| 5.14 | Coup | ||||
| 5.15 | Blockade and check-points | ||||
| 6 | Sarajevo | ||||
| 6.1 | Social atmosphere during the war | ||||
| 6.2 | Living in the basement from a child's perspective | ||||
| 6.3 | Escape-programs for women and kids | ||||
| 7 | Croatia | ||||
| 7.1 | On the way to Croatia without the father | ||||
| 7.2 | Fear of being divided | ||||
| 7.3 | Bosnian school for escaped kids | ||||
| 7.4 | Flight to Prague | ||||
| 8 | Czechoslovakia | ||||
| 8.1 | Livin in camps in Czechoslovakia and disappointement | ||||
| 8.2 | Decision to move to Berlin | ||||
| 9 | Germany, Berlin | ||||
| 9.1 | Arrival in Berlin | ||||
| 9.2 | Living in a refugee home | ||||
| 9.3 | Difficulties and pleasures at school | ||||
| 9.4 | Learning German | ||||
| 9.5 | Mother teaches refugee kids | ||||
| 9.6 | Move to another refugee home | ||||
| 9.7 | Living in a secluded home and moving again | ||||
| 10 | End of war | ||||
| 10.1 | Political atmosphere in the Balkans 1994 | ||||
| 10.2 | Father leaves Bosnia | ||||
| 10.3 | Video recordings of daily life | ||||
| 11 | Fathers visit at the refugee home and the feeling of alienation | ||||
| 12 | Move to one's own flat | ||||
| 13 | Welfare and civil life | ||||
| 14 | Return to Bosnia | ||||
| 14.1 | Imagination of returning to Sarajevo | ||||
| 14.2 | Mother's voluntary job offer at IOM in Sarajevo | ||||
| 14.3 | Return of refugees to Bosnia and war traumas | ||||
| 14.4 | Constitution of Bosnia | ||||
| 14.5 | Ideological war in the Balkans till today | ||||
| 14.6 | The mother's wish of a family reunification | ||||
| 14.7 | Dissatisfaction of the mothers with life in Germany | ||||
| 14.8 | Feeling of belonging in Germany and feeling of exile in Bosnia | ||||
| 14.9 | Graduation | ||||
| 14.10 | Getting a flat in Bosnia | ||||
| 14.11 | Sister against return to Bosnia | ||||
| 14.12 | At the airport | ||||
| 14.13 | Quitting school | ||||
| 15 | Disappointement about Bosnia | ||||
| 15.1 | Decision to return to Berlin | ||||
| 15.2 | Disappointments about life in Bosnia | ||||
| 15.3 | Hopelessness for the future of post-war Bosnia | ||||
| 15.4 | Studying in Bosnia | ||||
| 15.5 | Systematic corruption and the mob | ||||
| 15.6 | Rejection by the system | ||||
| 15.7 | Disillusionment and personal crisis | ||||
| 15.8 | Sleeping disorders and depression | ||||
| 15.9 | In Limbo, working for NGOs and self-employed | ||||
| 15.10 | Working for UNICEF | ||||
| 15.11 | Corruption in the NGO sector and losing the job | ||||
| 15.12 | Childhood-influence in Berlin | ||||
| 16 | Berlin | ||||
| 16.1 | Problems when comparing study programs | ||||
| 16.2 | Studying cultural studies in Frankfurt/Oder | ||||
| 16.3 | Berlin back then and today | ||||
| 16.4 | Tempo of life in Berlin | ||||
| 16.5 | Sister's move to Berlin, visiting a grammar school | ||||
| 16.6 | Move to Berlin as an emancipatory act despite immigration trauma | ||||
| 16.7 | Feeling of belonging in Berlin | ||||
| 17 | Self-concept and identity: construction of society | ||||
| 18 | Familiar faces from Sarajevo in Berlin | ||||
| 19 | Accent | ||||
| 20 | Flashbacks and chain of memory | ||||
| 21 | Final words | ||||
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