What to Expect When You’re a Minority? The Example of the Bunyevs of Serbia
What to Expect When You’re a Minority? The Example of the Bunyevs of Serbia
Author(s): Bojan BelićSubject(s): Social history, Nationalism Studies, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Politics and Identity, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Slavic Research Center
Keywords: Minority; Bunyevs; Bačka Bunyevs’ Alliance; Bunyevs in Vojvodina; ethnic identity and language; standardization;
Summary/Abstract: On May 14, 2018—exactly 73 years to the day after the order issued by the Internal Affairs Section of the Central People’s Liberation Committee of Vojvodina— Mr. Mirko Bajić, the president of the Bačka Bunyevs’ Alliance (BBA), informed the general public about a request by which the alliance “demanded that, without further ado, the parliament of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (APV) adopt a declaration to pronounce” the aforementioned order “an act of forced assimilation ... and annul it.” Mr. Bajić also explained that the initiative to annul the May 14, 1945 order had been submitted to the APV parliament more than a year and a half earlier and, despite initial support by the APV government, no declaration had been adopted by the time of Mr. Bajić’s statement.
Journal: Acta Slavica Iaponica
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 41
- Page Range: 73-90
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English
