Focus of on-going cross-cultural investigation has throughout the time shown that inadequate language skills paired with absence of knowledge of cultural practices and norms within the receiving society would create a number of stress behaviors among immigrants, often manifested as lowered mental health status- depression, anxiety, confusion; feelings of marginality and alienation; psychosomatic symptoms and identity confusion (Berry and Annis, 1988; Greenberg & Greenberg, 1989; Kessler, Turner and House, 1988; Shams and Jackson, 1994; Vega et al., 1986; Vinokur, Price and Caplan, 1991; Winefield, Winefield, Tiggermann and Goldney, 1991). It was further noticed that refugee populations across the world are adapting to the receiving societies in a much slower rate then other migrating groups (Greenberg & Greenberg, 1989), and yet due to sensibilities surrounding research of a refugee population, there are still questions surrounding this process. In addition, it appears that the attempts to demystify acculturation and uncover objective underpinnings of it, has further reduced the current concept undermining validity and reliability of the findings. Therefore need for subjective experience and definition of acculturation, as well as reconsideration of complexity of the phenomenon (acculturation) was recognised by this research. This study was designed to offer a qualitative insight into the acculturative differences within a family unit among refugees from former Yugoslavia. 21 women, recent refugee- arrivals were requested to participate in the open- end interview. In the semi- structured interview the women were asked to give a detailed account of their personal, their partners’ and their children’s experiences concerning the emotional, social, economical, occupational and psychological aspects of their and their family- members’ acculturation processes. The obtained data was analysed through the means of narrative and Erickson’s analytic induction. The results showed that cultural incompatibilities have spread into diverse spheres of living, thus complexity of the acculturation-related problems was acknowledged. The results showed that (1) split families (due to immigration), (2) inability to establish new social ties in the novel environment and (3) decay in professional status were often reported in connection with eroded physical and mental well-being of the participants and their families. The research also looked at cultural diversities, and gender differences, concentrating on concepts of resilience and coping strategies within the acculturative practice. It appears that cognitive restructuring and the ability to “let go” of the previous lives was the best coping mechanism.

Thesis (M. Div.)--St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, 1975. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 127-128).

Thesis (M. Div.)--St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, 1982. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-51).

Thesis--Belgrad. / Bibliographical references included in "Izvori" (p. 319-327).

Thesis (doctoral)--Univerzitet "Kiril i Metodij" u Skoplju. / In Serbo-Croatian (roman).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Title from PDF title page (viewed Dec. 8, 2008). Includes bibliographical references. Online version of the print original.

Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Europe and Eurasia))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2010. / Thesis Advisor(s): Yost, David S. Second Reader: Moran, Daniel J. "March 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 21, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Yugoslavia, Serbo-Croatian, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-66). Also available in print.

Thesis (M. Div.)--St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, 1982. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 50-51).

This thesis demonstrates the powerful relationship between ethnicity, culture, nation and state in the Basque Country and the Former Yugoslavia. In placing Basque and Yugoslav sub-state nationalism in comparative relief this study argues that political state or autonomy seeking behavior on the basis of an ethnically defined or imagined community continues to have powerful contemporary salience. Furthermore when situated within the literature on nationalism, these two cases suggest that the theoretical literature needs to be reworked beyond the positions of Anthony Smith and Ernest Gellner. The endurance of cultural claims to a political state suggests that the connection between ethnicity and the nation is stronger then many contemporary observers have suggested. It is argued that the cultural, political and territorial rights of sub-state nations are likely to remain highly divisive sites of historical, cultural and political contestation. As a force, nationalism is by no means relegated to the past by cosmopolitanism or a ‘post-national’ shift as a number of high profile commentators in the contemporary social sciences have argued. Rather, it remains an active and powerful idea that will continue to shape the sociopolitical landscape of human societies into the twenty-first century as it has the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. / Arts, Faculty of / Central Eastern Northern European Studies, Department of / Graduate