War Refugees & The Sacrifice of Belonging with Irma Rubil-Jonatan
Hosted by Kevin Young. Produced by J'aime Rothbard.
Irma openly shares her childhood experiences during the Bosnian war in the early 1990's. She addresses how the conflict impacted her family, which does not distinguish between Bosniaks, Serbs and Croatians and includes many mixed marriages. Irma also describes the grief she felt over losing her friends, her family, her home, her roots… being a refugee, moving through different countries and not being welcome anywhere. Wherever she went, to be accepted required her to embody new cultural norms, to assimilate, which caused her to lose parts of…
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