CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Korda, Matea |
|---|---|
| Title | Success Stories of Emplacement: Viennese Croats' Identities In-Between Political Discourses and Narrative Biographies |
| Summary | The purpose of this thesis is to examine the processes of displacement and emplacement in the context of Viennese Croats, and these processes’ significance in the discursive construction and negotiation of their identities. This research is undertaken through a comparative study of Croatian nation-state representatives’ political speeches and Viennese Croats’ narrative biographies. This is an examination of whether, how, and why political speeches of Croatian nation-state representatives reflect themselves in the everyday lives and experiences of Viennese Croats. This thesis is guided by the approaches of grounded theory, ethnography, and critical discourse analysis. It employs theoretical frameworks of migration studies, transnationalism, and identity studies, and it is informed by the historical background of the 1960s-1980s Yugoslav labour migration, 1990s forced migrations, and 2000s-present migrations. The thesis concludes there are weak indirect ties within the transnational social field in the context of institutional and everyday discourses on identification. The narratives of Viennese Croats and their lived experiences tell ‘success stories of emplacement’ which are focused on Vienna as a space of emplacement, while the political speeches aim at the construction of a unity between the imagined national and transnational community, focusing on Croatia as a space of displacement. Hence, the discursive actualisation of identification in the bottom-up level of analysis does not follow the one from the top-down. The contribution of this thesis to the existing body of knowledge is in its comparative character and theoretical and methodological triangulation. |
| Supervisor | Mijić, Ana; Tokić, Mate Nikola |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/korda_matea.pdf |
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