What is it about?
The article looks into the history of South Slavic emigration in Brazil to explore connections between the Central European 'homelands' and the greatest Latin American country. To do so, it examines the ways in which the Habsburg Empire and the first Yugoslavia interacted with the emigrants who relocated across the ocean.
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Why is it important?
Examining the history of South Slavic immigrants in Brazil through a longue durée and transnational perspective, our research points to the immigrant 'disappearance', resulting from assimilationist policies on the one hand and lack of interest to interact on the other. Consequently, despite their substantial numbers, the scholars too have almost entirely neglected the presence of South Slavs in Brazil.
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I have long been fascinated with the immigration to Latin America, partly also because it has attracted much less attention than transatlantic movements to the United States. As I am doing research on Yugoslavia's migration and diaspora policies, I therefore wanted to focus on the way the state interacted with the emigrants in the area seldom explored by the experts on Slavic emigration.
Miha Zobec
Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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This page is a summary of: Yugoslav Emigrants in Brazil from the Habsburgs to Karađorđevićs: Transnational Political Engagement on the Peripheries?, Journal of Migration History, July 2023, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/23519924-09020002.
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