Open AccessBuilding Loyalty on the Margins: Interwar Yugoslavia and Emigrants from the Julian March and Prekmurje
Author(s) -
Miha Zobec
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
dve domovini
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.255
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 1581-1212
pISSN - 0353-6777
DOI - 10.3986/dd.2022.1.05
Subject(s) - emigration , homeland , diaspora , context (archaeology) , political science , politics , national identity , state (computer science) , identity (music) , economic history , population , ancient history , history , sociology , law , art , demography , archaeology , algorithm , computer science , aesthetics
By examining the cases of emigrants coming from the Julian March to Argentina and Prekmurje to the United States, the article evaluates state-diaspora relations in the interwar context of shifting borders and changing political regimes. Whereas the Slovene-speaking population of Prekmurje, due to lasting Hungarian influence, was reluctant to embrace the Yugoslav idea, Slovene and Croat emigrants from the Julian March were fond of it. Assessing the methods of the Yugoslav extraterritorial nation-building process and emigrants’ identifications, the author suggests that while Prekmurje emigrants maintained their non-national identity, the Julian March diaspora developed its own vision of the Yugoslav “homeland.”