Lecture ’Mobility and Migrations of Romanians in Banat: Ethnic Group Dynamics’

Dr Mircea Măran and Dr Annemarie Sorescu-Marinkovic are set to deliver a lecture titled ’Mobility and Migrations of Romanians in Banat: Ethnic Group Dynamics’ on Wednesday, 27 November, at the SASA Hall 2 at 1 p.m. This event is organized by the SASA Board for the Study of National Minorities and Human Rights.

The community of Romanians in Vojvodina is one of the numerous communities comprising the multi-ethnic mosaic of this province, with their language recognized as one of the six languages in official use in Vojvodina. Sources on Romanian immigration setting up their settlements are rather extensive. However, the dynamic of this ethnic community in the last hundred years is very interesting and unique, which shaped a particular profile of the minority group. The lecturers will highlight two parallel and complementary mobility phenomena which are crucial for understanding the current state and position of Romanians in Vojvodina: on the one hand, the constant influx of population in migratory waves of different scales from the territory of today’s Romania during the 18^th  and the first decades of the 19^th century, and on the other hand, migrations of Romanians from Banat to Romania and Western European countries as well as to America and Australia during the 20^th century. The lecture will feature various types, reasons and scales of these migrations, as well as the historical context when they took place.