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Bradley E. Clift
The Hartford Courant
"The New Americans: 
Island of Assimilation"

 

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"BOSNIAN SQUARE" Like hundreds of immigrants before them, the Bosnians who now make up most of the apartments of Bosnian Square in Hartford's South end are homes to new immigrants, those fleeing war and persecution. Here, the Bosnians have found, even in a poor working class neighborhood a safe haven. The porches overlooking the square are windows between two worlds: the old world of "Bosnia" and the new world of America. The children of these refugees from war are becoming us, becoming American, they assimilate easily while their parents still hold on to old world customs. Having tea and coffee and conversation on the porches is nearly a daily occurrence in the square, weather permitting. Just after most parents come home, bottom left, Dzemila talks to her family just off their porch.
 
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