Citizenship and Identity: Being Hungarian in Slovakia and Romanian in Serbia and Ukraine
Citizenship and Identity: Being Hungarian in Slovakia and Romanian in Serbia and Ukraine

Summary/Abstract: Central and Eastern Europe is a perfect laboratory for the study of interaction between borders, identities and citizenship; and the relationship between minorities, the state they live in and their kin-state. These relations are constantly evolving and fluctuating.1 National minorities are spread across newly-established and nationalizing states, sometimes at the border of their kin-state, sometimes further away, following both the political and national reconfigurations after the fall of multinational empires like the Hapsburg, Ottoman and the Tsarist Empire after World War I, and multinational states like the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia after 1989. In this context, we aim to question the self-identification of national minorities living at the border of their kin-state that gives them a certai form of protection through various processes and legislation, like citizenship.

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