Creating the Unbound Yugoslav Nation

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Emigrants from the “Unredeemed” Julian March

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ID11048627
AuthorsMiha Zobec (0000-0001-8655-4669, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume50
Issue2
Pages296-315
Publication date2022-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/nps.2020.90
OpenAlexW3124120229
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited23

This article explores how the Kingdom of Yugoslavia tried to co-opt Slovenes who emigrated from the Italian Julian March/Venezia Giulia region to Argentina (a community of around 25,000 emigrants) into the frame of its unbound nation and analyzes the emigrants’ attitudes towards the Kingdom. As emigrants derived from the territory were considered by Yugoslav authorities to be “unredeemed,” the article, explores how Yugoslavia addressed its “two diasporas,” one of stranded minorities and one of emigrants. Secondly, it examines how diplomatic representatives suppressed emigrants’ opposition during times of economic crisis and dictatorial government in Yugoslavia and Argentina. Thirdly, it analyzes the rapprochement between the emigrant community and diplomatic representatives which occurred in the second half of the 1930s. It argues that because the diplomatic corps were ultimately unable to provide the emigrants socio-economic assistance or address the issue of the Julian March minority, emigrants devised alternative visions of belonging. In addition, the article suggests that many emigrants, caught between a powerless homeland and a host society unwelcoming of their particular identities, drifted into Argentine anonymity

Economic history · Emigration · Homeland · Kingdom · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Central European national history · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture

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