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• Processes of change in the Hungarian and Ukrainian Community in Izsnyéte, Transcarpathia

  62-85

  Roland Doszpoly

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  55

  I started my research in Izsnyéte, Transcarpathia, in 2012 with an anthropological research group. Initially, we were curious about the coexistence mechanisms of the local settlement, the cultural peculiarities of the ethnic groups living there, but due to the war situation, we had to stop our empirical research sooner before 2015. In 2017, as a doctoral student, I continued my empirical research in Izsnyéte, where Hungarians represent an absolute majority against the state-forming Ukrainian ethnic group. The basic research concept was to choose a local settlement close to the border where two or three different ethnicities have lived together for decades. In my study, I examine the process of ethnicity production and the processes of image and change of the living ethnicities of the settlement and their applicability to each other in comparison with the data of previous research, reflecting on the changes, mainly in the light of assimilation. Already the results of the 2012 research showed spatial isolation, in many cases dissimilation was experienced among coexisting ethnicities, but with many other factors and aspects several years later, it caused diverse processes.

• Literature review of the national identity of hungarians in Vojvodina between 1920–1898, I.

  109-135

  Teréz Kovács

  Igor Kiss

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  71

  Our paper follows on the observation made by Ferenc Pataki who stated that national identity is
  a collective identity shaped by both political/citizenship-related and cultural elements. While
  these two elements are usually similar, the national identity of people from ethnic minorities
  differ along these two identities. Our analysis discusess the changes that happened during the
  hundred years since the Treaty of Trianion to these two elements of the national identity of the
  following three generations of Hungarians in Vojvodina: between the two World Wars, those
  who grew up during the communism and those who became adults after 1990. We conclude that
  the first generation retained their cultural-historical national identiy formed before Wold War I
  but they did not develop Hungarian or South Slavic national idenities. To replace the South
  Slavic identity they developed a regional identity to Vojvodina. The second generation, who were
  born and raised after 1945, developed Yugoslavian political/citizenship-related national identy
  through socialisation in a new political system and a regional identity to Vojvodina, which meant
  an alienation from Hungary. As a result of their shattered cultural-historical national identity,
  they started to assimilate, some of them lost their Hungarian cultural-historical identity and
  acquired a Serbian or Yugoslavian national identity instead. The national identity of the third
  generation who grew up after 1990 will be discussed in a second paper.