Iseljenička problematika u pismima Ante Biankinija Anti Trumbiću (1903.)
Emigrant Issues in Ante Biankini's Letters to Ante Trumbic (1903)

Summary/Abstract: Quoted and critically presented in the paper are two letters written in the midst of the popular anti-Hungarian movement in 1903 by the eminent emigration official in the US dr Ante Biankini and addressed to one of the most renowned Dalmatian politicians dr. Ante Trumbi}. The letters are confidential in character: Biankini is asking Trumbi} for instructions on how to react to different or even the most radical solutions in the country and diaspora (encouraged from Croatia) to growing Hungarian pressure. As a result of this correspondence a cooperative relationship was established, which was to have repercussions on later political events, especially during the First World War. In addition to information and assessment in the political sphere, Biankini writes to Trumbi} about the general state of Croatian emigrants in the US. He especially turns his attention to the emigrants': social status, degree of integration into American society, organisation, mentality, political culture, relationship towards the homeland, the state of the second generation in which the process of assimilation can be observed and he also deals with predictions as to whether and how many emigrants will return to their home country.

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