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- Title
ETHNIC IDENTITY OF THE BORDERLAND OF HUNGARY, AUSTRIA AND SLOVENIA.
- Authors
BALIZS, Dániel; BAJMÓCY, Péter
- Abstract
The historical Vas county is a mezoregion on the borderland of three countries - Austria, Hungary and Slovenia. It has multipolar ethnic structure with several ethnic minorities along the borders. We can see the decline of ethnic diversity in the last decades not only in the disappearing of linguistic islands and scattered minority groups, but also in identitical (dual identity, strong local identities) and language using (bilingualism, polilingualism) aspects. In this paper we try to present the number, changes and regionality of ethnically mixed settlements and try to quantify the percentage of the ethnically mixed population. We used the official statistics and added the results of fieldworks and interviews with local people. In the minority settlements large percentage of the local community (30-70%) has a special type of identity because of the differences of ethnic, national and local identities, the geographic and historical circumstances. We can see this special way of thinking by the individual and community routes, language using specialities and the other representations of ethnic consciousness.
- Subjects
EUROPE; ETHNICITY; MINORITIES; MULTICULTURALISM
- Publication
Geographica Timisiensis, 2015, Vol 24, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1224-0079
- Publication type
Article