Review article

Transnational Experience: A New York Story

Rebeka Mesarić Žabčić ; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Marina Perić Kaselj orcid.org/0000-0003-4513-841X ; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Magdalena Vrbanec ; Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

At the beginning of the 21 century, American Croatians represent one of the largest ethnic communities in the United States of America. Republic of Croatia is one of the traditionally emigrant European countries, with a relatively largest number of emigrants, that is citizens and nationals who live abroad, and in such a context this article presents a life story of an emigrant and her transnational life environment in which she tells of her own and her compatriots’ experience of living in the United States of America.
In the first part the article briefly portrays the historical background of the Croatian immigration to the United States of America, while in the second it tells a life story of a Croatian female immigrant living in New York, as a specific research sample conducted during April of 2009 in the USA, based on conversations held with younger generation of Croatian immigrants living in New York.

Keywords

Croatian diaspora; transmigrants; transnationalism; New York

Hrčak ID:

62383

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/62383

Publication date:

14.12.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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