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Some Aspects of the Ethnic Identity of Croatian Fraternal Union Members (in the USA)
Tihomir Telišman
; Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
In the paper the author treats the problem of the ethnic identity of Croatian immigrants, members of the Croatian Fraternal Union (USA). The basis of the analysis consists in the application of theoretic concepts of American authors, empiric results on this theme in the USA and finally, the results of an original survey carried out on a sample of young members of the CFU, during a visit to Zagreb. The paper is divided into several thematic sections. In the introductory, theoretic section, the author opts for a view that the descendants of Croatian immigrants in the USA constitute a real social group, with subjective and objective traits. In the second section, methods and hypotheses are presented, as well as the results of the survey on the ethnic identity of CFU members. Special emphasis is placed on the results pertaining to the important role of the Croatian language in preserving the ethnic self-identification of descendants of Croatian immigrants. In his conclusion, the author accents the policy of the USA towards ethnic groups in preserving their ethnic identity, and the results of his own survey, which indicate how the ethnic identity of the descendants of Croatian immigrants in the USA should be studied.
Ključne riječi
ethnic identity; immigrants; Croats; Croatian Fraternal Union; United States of America
Hrčak ID:
127671
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.8.1990.
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