Emigration Policies and Nation-Building in Interwar Yugoslavia

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-274026
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.27402

Brunnbauer, Ulf

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Abstract

This article analyses the connection between emigration policies and nationalism in interwar Yugoslavia (1918–1941). It argues that Yugoslav policymakers used emigration as a means of nation-building. On the one hand, the Yugoslav state pursued long-distance nation-building by aiming to create a ‘Yugoslav diaspora’ out of the hundreds of thousands of overseas emigrants of South Slavic extraction ...