Međunarodne studije, Vol. X No. 3-4, 2010.
Izlaganje sa skupa
Young Members of National Minorities: Identity and Socio-Political Handicaps in lts Materialization (Empirical Research: Czechs, Hungarians, Slovaks and Serbs)
Dragutin Babić
; Institut za migracije i narodnosti u Zagrebu, Hrvatska
Sažetak
ln Croatia, the social construction of 'Serbs' and 'Croats' has always had and still has priority, due to historical, wartime, ethno-nationalist and other reasons, and will fora long time present significant socio-political fragmentation in social reality, as well as in imaginative sphere. The situation with ethnic structure and comparison between the two recent Censuses (1991/2001) suggest that the problem of interethnic relations is not only between Serbs and Croats. Other national minorities, especially so-called 'new' national minorities, which had previously had the status of 'Yugoslav constitutive nations' (Bosnians, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Slovenians), have also experienced the numerical decrease of their members, as well as existential and political
incertitude. The question occurs, which is symptomatic for east European new democracies: How to accomplish national equality in those countries in which, at structural level, majority nation presents the fundamental political subject (with inevitable ethnic definition), while the state is normatively conceived as democratic state of all its citizens? The key question in this article, interwoven with three independent variables (nationality, regional attachment, age), treats possible threats to language, culture and customs of the abovementioned national minorities, as well as possible reasons of such threats. The answers of examinees will indicate the tendency and give segmental insights into socio-psychological and political situation in the field of
inter-ethnic relations in Croatia in the after-war period.
Ključne riječi
young members of national minorities; identity; socio-political handicap in the materialization of identity
Hrčak ID:
291528
URI
Datum izdavanja:
29.12.2010.
Posjeta: 712 *