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Hungarians in Koprivnica-Križevci County: Everyday Life, Recollection/Memory and National Identity
Dragutin Babić
; Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Zagreb
Filip Škiljan
orcid.org/0000-0001-7979-1359
; Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Zagreb
Sažetak
In this paper based on empirical research (half-structured interviews) the authors analyse the topic of national identity of Hungarians in Koprivnica-Križevci County in correlation with recollection and memory of the everyday life during longer periods. As in the case of Croatia, the analysis of the last three censuses of Koprivnica-Križevci County indicated huge changes in ethnic structure caused by war conflicts, which led to cognition that the number of ethnic Croats in the total population increased, whereas the number and proportion of national / ethnic minorities decreased. Hungarians were not significantly represented in this county, and the low number of members of this national community also gradually decreased within the last three censuses in Croatia. In the last three censuses the number of Hungarians indicated a gradual decrease, from 120 in the 1991 census, followed by 108 in the 108 census to the total number of 88 registered in the last census from 2011. This number does not represent statistically relevant ethnic population in those censuses. In the scope of empirical research conducted by the Institute for migrations and nationalities (Zagreb), half-structured interviews with five informants were carried out in settlements located in Koprivnica-Križevci County. Informants were members of the Hungarian national minority in the following settlements: Koprivnica, Legrad, Ždala. The informants were two women and three men between forty-seven and seventy-three years of age. Everyday life of Hungarians during socialist regime did not to a significant extent differ from everyday life of other national communities in this part of Croatia, including the major ethnic – Croats. The same can be stated about the achievements in the respective period, which was also not specific and significantly different in terms of national marker among total population. When it comes to communication and social interaction, coexistence of Croats and Hungarians was internalized value for major part of the population, which was also confirmed by the answers that the informants provided within the conducted interviews. To a large extent good relations between Croats and Hungarians, as well as other national communities or those without national destination, were manifested in local communities as network of primary social connections (neighbourhood, friendship, marriage and generation liaisons etc.). Recollection and memory of members of the Hungarian national minority in the county, in relation to Hungarians in Croatia, represents an important part of their national identity and the most important factor in prevention of assimilation.
Ključne riječi
Podravina; Hungarians; everyday life; recollection; memory; identity
Hrčak ID:
204312
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Datum izdavanja:
1.6.2018.
Posjeta: 1.563 *