II. Social specifications of the respondents
1. Albanian refugees in
the camps and in the private houses in Tetovo
2. Albanians in Macedonia
and Albanians in Albania. Their social relations with the Kosovars
3. The Macedonians
III. Psychological portraits of different ethnic and
social levels
1. Albanian refugees in
the camps and in the houses of Tetovo
2. Macedonians and Macedonian
society as a whole
I. Approaches to the research and methodology
The approach was interdisciplinary, i.e. a team
of six scholars who applied specific methods and tools during the field
work including a sociologist, a specialist in Slavonic studies, three anthropologists
having individual tasks, a historian and a mediator-interpreter from Albania.*
Objective: Within five days to make an
interdisciplinary survey of the situation in Macedonia after the ceasing
of the military operations, measured through the attitudes of the Kosovo
refugees in and out of the camps, of the Macedonian Albanians and the Macedonians
themselves. To analyze indirectly the political perspective in Kosovo,
leaning on the concentration of potentially unlimited number of respondents
from different towns and villages, representatives of different social
groups in one place, i.e. through interviews, questionnaires, free conversations,
video-interviews and observations.
The questionnaires for the semi-standardized
interviews, prepared by Prof. Peter-Emil Mitev, were filled in with 33
respondents in the Radusha and Bojane camps who came from more than 10
settlements in Kosovo. When filling in the questionnaires a great number
of campers gathered, this usually turning into a free conversation, comments,
and discussions with the participation of 5 to 15 persons. The respondents
were men and women from 16 to 80 years of age.
A lot of free interviews and talks were carried
out with about 25-30 persons out of the camps who were refugees from Kosovo,
Albanians from Macedonia, Albanians from Albania, Macedonians including
politicians, members of the governing authorities in Macedonia, intellectuals,
people with higher education and workers without any education.