“When I first came to Klina in Kosovo, there was no job, above all for women, who were mostly unemployed.”
Tatjana Ilic is a Serb woman from Pristina who during the war in Kosovo moved to to Kragujevac, in Serbia.
Many years afterwards, she decided to come back to Kosovo, to Vidanje, her husband’s village located on the hills near Klina, a little town of about 37,000 inhabitants, 90 per cent of whom are ethnic Albanians.
Being already in her forties, Tatjana did not expect that she could find a new life, new energy and even a new job in a country where the employment rate among women, according to 2016 data from Kosovo’s statistical agency, was extremely low at 12.7 per cent.
For a Serb returnee like Tatjana, difficulties were not only related to the lack of job, but also to everyday life, as she did not speak Albanian.
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