Post-2000 Migration from Serbia: Storming Against Your Government's Political Legacy

Leaving Serbia after 2000 meant something different from leaving as a refugee in the 1990s. Damnjan Jovanović reflects on what it means to emigrate from a country whose government you oppose, how political disillusionment shapes the decision to leave, and what relationship — if any — the diaspora can maintain with a homeland whose direction it rejects.