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Feature StoriesMedill News Service stories
BY KATHERINE BOYLE, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
[an earlier version was published by the Institute for War & Peace Reporting, and has been republished by The Bosnian Institute, a London-based organization that provides education and information on the history and culture of Bosnia-Herzegovina]
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Overnight people became beasts.
Seida Karabasic can think of no other explanation for the beginning of the Balkan wars, which, in 1992, turned neighbor against neighbor in Prijedor, her municipality.
"Because it happened so quickly, a lot of people don't trust those of other ethnicities anymore," said Karabasic, who is ethnically Muslim or Bosniak. "They feel [the fighting] could happen again at anytime."
Across Bosnia, this distrust is evident not only in civilians' attitudes but in the ethnic makeup of communities as well. Many areas that were ethnically diverse before the war are now home to ethnically homogeneous communities.
The shift has been facilitated in part by the large number of Bosnians who were killed during the war or chose to flee the country. But another significant contributing factor has been the relocation of many Muslims, Orthodox Serbs and Roman Catholic Croats to different areas of Bosnia. ( More)
ProfilesCompelling stories of immigration & diaspora
BY KATHERINE GLOVER, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
After three years in the United States, 25-year-old Mohammed went back to his home in Baghdad, Iraq, to live with his mother and younger brother and sister.
He thought with Saddam Hussein gone, everything would be better. He didn't realize the city had fallen into violent chaos and his U.S. ties would put his family in danger.
This is the story of Mohammed's time in Iraq and his struggle to get his family safely to Syria.
He has asked that his last name not be used for the safety of his family.
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Facts and figures in the United States
In FY 2004, at the state and local level, the average low skill immigrant household received $14,145 in benefits and services and paid only $5,309 in taxes.
Of the 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., almost 600,000 are fugitives from deportation orders (Rocky Mountain News, June 15, 2006)
In 2007, 650,000 immigrants became American citizens.
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Facts and figures from around the world
Government figures have shown that around 250,000 people emigrated from the UK in 2007, and Australia, New Zealand and the US were among the most popular destinations. (Australian Visa Bureau)
16,700 immigrants arrived by boat in Lampedusa and the coast of Sicily in 2007 Many of them came from Nigeria, Morocco, Somalia, Tunisia, Eritrea, Ghana, and other African countries, and usually take a boat to Lampedusa from Libya.
800,000 eastern Europeans applied to live in the UK between 2004 and 2007, and only 30,000 were turned down.
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