Prva Jugoslavija in »njena« diaspora v Braziliji: od angažmaja izseljenskih aktivistov do pozabe skupnosti
The First Yugoslavia and “Its” Diaspora in Brazil: from the Engagement of Emigrant Activists to the Oblivion of the Community

Summary/Abstract: The author deals with the Yugoslav diaspora in Brazil during the interwar period. Although the formation of the Yugoslav diaspora out of Slovenian and Croatian emigrant communities was in line with Yugoslavia’s aspirations for organising emigrant communities on the Yugoslav basis, the foundations of South Slavic cooperation in Brazil had existed already before World War I. The Yugoslav diaspora in Brazil was very fagile, and its contacts with the “homeland” only superfcial. Several factors contributed to that, among them most signifcantly the absence of Yugoslavia’s concern for its emigrants in Brazil on the one hand and the Brazilian policy of nationalising immigrants on the other. Emigrant activists sought to compensate for the absence of Yugoslavia’s engagement, but their actions would ofen lead to increased fagmentation of the community. Moreover, the author focuses on the community of Slovenian emigrants fom the Julian March region. While a part of this community identifed with the Yugoslav diaspora, another segment of it remained autonomous.

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