Introduction: Talking Past Each Other and Other Catch-22 Situations: States, Emigration, and “Diasporas”

Neither migrants nor minorities always behave the way their governments want them to. This reality is a lesson that Yugoslavia, in both its embodiments, frequently made—amplified by the fact that both the interwar kingdom and the post-war communist regime pursued ambitious nation-building projects....

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Main Author: Ulf Brunnbauer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC 2022-06-01
Series:Dve Domovini
Online Access:https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/twohomelands/article/view/10561
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description Neither migrants nor minorities always behave the way their governments want them to. This reality is a lesson that Yugoslavia, in both its embodiments, frequently made—amplified by the fact that both the interwar kingdom and the post-war communist regime pursued ambitious nation-building projects. These projects addressed not only the domestic population but also emigrants coming from its territory. In a region where minority issues and migration intersected in complex ways, such projects could go only wrong, one might have predicted. And they often did when policymakers and local bureaucrats struggled with inherently contradictory agendas.
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spelling doaj.art-845f5c1b4a5c430eb541c53a0429a3502022-12-22T02:22:23ZengZRC SAZU, Založba ZRCDve Domovini0353-67771581-12122022-06-015571810.3986/dd.2022.1.0116699Introduction: Talking Past Each Other and Other Catch-22 Situations: States, Emigration, and “Diasporas”Ulf Brunnbauer0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0443-6461Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, RegensburgNeither migrants nor minorities always behave the way their governments want them to. This reality is a lesson that Yugoslavia, in both its embodiments, frequently made—amplified by the fact that both the interwar kingdom and the post-war communist regime pursued ambitious nation-building projects. These projects addressed not only the domestic population but also emigrants coming from its territory. In a region where minority issues and migration intersected in complex ways, such projects could go only wrong, one might have predicted. And they often did when policymakers and local bureaucrats struggled with inherently contradictory agendas.https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/twohomelands/article/view/10561
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