Lecture ’Contemporary Migrations of Slavonic Minorities in Vojvodina’

Organized by the SASA Board for the Study of National Minorities and Human Rights, Professor Dalibor Sokolović will give a lecture titled ’Contemporary Migrations of Slavonic Minorities in Vojvodina’ on Wednesday, 9 April, at 1 p.m. at the SASA Hall 2.

The lecture will present the analysis of migration patterns within Slovak, Rusyns, and Polish communities in Vojvodina, with a particular emphasis on the situation in the second half of the 20^th  and early 21^st  centuries.

What is mutual to migrations in the observed communities is the economic character of their motivation, from the early settlement of these communities until modern times. A dramatic decrease in the number of members of three communities from the last census reveals that the intensity of economy-motivated emigration has been increasing, along with the impact of other factors such as demographic, political and broader societal factors.

The analysis of the migrations, which initially took the north-to-south direction, and made a sharp u-turn at the end of the last century, will provide a theoretical framework for qualitative studies of the long-term effects of these trends on Slavonic minority communities.