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Bulgarian passports, Macedonian identity: The invention of EU citizenship in the Republic of Macedonia
Author(s) -
Neofotistos Vasiliki P.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
anthropology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-8322
pISSN - 0268-540X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2009.00678.x
Subject(s) - macedonian , bulgarian , identity (music) , nationality , documentation , citizenship , ethnic group , identification (biology) , state (computer science) , political science , sociology , law , gender studies , immigration , history , linguistics , ancient history , aesthetics , philosophy , botany , algorithm , politics , biology , computer science , programming language
In this article, I examine some of the social effects that Bulgaria's EU membership has for Macedonia and the meanings that identification documents have for ethnic Macedonians who instrumentalize Bulgarian claims on their Macedonian identity for their own ends. I argue that the case study of Macedonia helps us view identification documents as objects that neither necessarily fix nationality nor are ineluctable guarantees of belonging to the (Bulgarian) nation‐state, and understand state documentation practices as practices that do not always produce determined identities and citizen‐subjects.