Boszniacka diaspora w Europie Zachodniej w świetle kryzysu imigracyjnego i rosnącej islamofobii. Media, tożsamość i polityka
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The Immigration crisis and thousands of refugees arriving to Europe in a search for a better,
more dignified life, and the constantly growing concern caused by the terrorists from ISIS
contribute to islamophobic sentiment in Europe. Bosniaks, or Bosnian Muslims, are the largest
diaspora from the former Yugoslavia in Western Europe. It is estimated that out of Bosnia and
Herzegovina there is more than 3 million Bosniaks and people from Bosnia. First of all, we can
speak about war refugees, who left their homeland between 1989 and 1995 (during the war after
the fall of Yugoslavia) and about representatives of the earlier economic and political emigration
from Yugoslavia (so called gastarbaiters). Nowadays, anti-Muslim sentiment in Europe on the one
hand, and the growing radicalization of Muslim immigrant communities in European main cities,
the involvement of various immigrant communities in the Syrian conflict and the activities of the
Islamic State, have an influence on the life of Bosniaks living abroad. In my paper I present the
results of my research on immigrant Bosniak communities in Ljubljana, Vienna, Berlin and Oslo.
I analyze their political and cultural activities as a their reaction to recent events such as the Paris
attacks in November 2015.
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