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Kosovo and Bosnia Herzegovina are entirely different countries and at the same time similar in terms of the situation of returnees after armed conflicts. Both are relevant because of the large number of people who were displaced, because of the ethnic dimension of the displacements and because the political changes produced after the conflicts are so far-reaching that they reshaped the map of Europe. It is a commonplace to affirm that social and political interculturalism is tantamount to tolerance and social peace, especially in post-war periods, when it is essential to speak of reconciliation in order to ensure that a return to normality is possible. This article seeks to question, at least as a self-evident and universal truth, the unreserved virtue of interculturality imposed in the immediate aftermath of violent conflict. In these contexts, greater importance must be given to the ethnic groups that have been left on the margins of exclusion. In Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, the collapse of communism, political changes and conflicts have had enormous socio-economic consequences on Roma ethnicities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the experience narrated by young migrant returnees and deportees from the United States, settled in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. Based on their experience, we discuss the explanatory limits of the perspectives of transnationalism and return migration. The cases analyzed allow us to determine that when migrating from North to South, young people undergo an adaptation process supported by family networks that nonetheless constitute a double-edged sword: while facilitating their integration in Mexico, family members also provide their first encounter with discrimination, which they will later experience in other contexts. Although initially, young people forced to return find themselves caged in by these intangible resources, they also overcome them by expanding their identity repertoires and reconstructing their sense of belonging to Mexico. This work seeks to highlight the need to develop a research agenda focused on young migrants, to whom it is difficult to extrapolate existing analytical perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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