The Citizenship Conundrum in Post-Communist Europe: The Instructive Case of Croatia

Štiks, Igor

doi:10.1080/09668136.2010.522422

Cited by 27 publications

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“…The same typology was used in examinations of nation-building processes in Europe after 1990 (e.g., Brubaker, 1996b, 2009; Kolstø, 2014; Štiks, 2010). These processes have been particularly intricate because destructive/fragmenting forces that led to the demise of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia ran parallel to the unifying impetus generated by the signing of the Treaty of Maastricht which created the European Union.…”

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Influence of hosting a major sports event on patriotic attitudes: The EuroBasket 2013 competition in Slovenia

Ličen

2017

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Countries with short histories of nationhood often resort to sport to (re-)invent a national identity. This study uses the nationalizing nationalism and social identity frameworks to examine whether hosting a major event such as the European basketball championship for men influenced national identification in Slovenia. Readers of the Slovenian public service website were surveyed at three points in time to determine changes in patriotism, nationalism, internationalism, and smugness in relation to the EuroBasket 2013. Results indicate the almost complete absence of influence on the population as a whole. Nationalistic attitudes did not change after the event based on the respondents’ gender and physical activity levels, and only high school graduates displayed an increase in smugness in the week following the competition. Significant differences were found with regard to live and televisual exposure to the event as spectators scored significantly higher on patriotism, nationalism (only TV viewers), and smugness, but not internationalism scales. While hosting this tournament did not contribute to nationalizing nationalism or nation-building, despite the national government’s assertion otherwise, even moderate exposure to it fed patriotism. Links between sport events and nationalistic attitudes are discussed in further detail and should inform researchers of sport events and patriotism especially in new democracies.

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Influence of hosting a major sports event on patriotic attitudes: The EuroBasket 2013 competition in Slovenia

Ličen

2017

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…This mostly concerned the Serbian ethnic minority, as it was one of the most affected minorities during The Croatian War of Independence. In this sense, regardless of the minimized existence of the Serbian minority within Croatian society, the State still needed to find an adequate way to set the relations and legal framework to minimize the ethnic intolerance within the frame of majority-minority relations (Štiks 2010Dimitrijević 2012). Even though the accession to the EU certainly had a positive effect on the legal framework of citizenship policies and regulations of migrant issues, it is questionable whether Croatia engaged in profound reforms of its issues and lowered the ethnocentric character of the State, or whether these changes only satisfied the more general and easier-to-handle issues, without carrying out a real change on the ground (Štiks 2015).…”

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Attitudes toward Immigrants Intertwined with Religion: Comparison of Croatia and Italy

Stipišić

2022

Religions

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This article seeks to contribute to the study of migration and religion in two EU countries, Croatia and Italy, by examining the impact of religiosity and cultural identification on negative attitudes toward immigrants. In many European societies, the increasing diversification within different levels of society stemming from recent migrations has turned immigrants’ reception and integration into a key issue, whereby migrants are often perceived as a threat to the dominant religion and culture, thus aggravating the process of migrant integration within society. Our article follows recent empirical research on migration and religion, which determined that higher levels of religiosity are positively correlated with negative out-group attitudes. Conducting quantitative research in Croatia (N = 603) and Italy (N = 714) and based on the analysis of primary data, firstly, we assess whether there is an association between negative attitudes towards immigrants depending on different degrees of religiosity and levels of cultural identification. Secondly, we examine the differences of the socio-religious contexts of Croatia and Italy, with a focus on the interplay between religion, national identity, and migration patterns. In line with this, our research shows that religiosity has the largest influence on negative attitudes toward immigrants, implying that higher levels of religiosity result in higher levels of negative attitudes toward immigrants. Furthermore, the results of our research show that Croatian participants have more negative attitudes toward immigrants than Italian participants, whereby Roman Catholic participants in both countries are more negative than non-religiously declared participants.

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“…Built primarily on case studies, scholars developed a rich empirical literature on the ways in which kin-states crafted their policies and used diplomatic advocacy, cross-border political, economic, and cultural networks and institutions, and various forms of citizenship to protect, promote, and engage with ethnic kin communities (King and Melvin 1998;Waterbury 2010;Wolff and Cordell 2007). This work also helped highlight types of kin-state policies that seemed distinct from those typically utilized by migrant sending states, such as the emergence of "benefit laws" that provided special rights as a form of semi-citizenship to external co-ethnics (Fowler 2001;Shevel 2010;Udrea 2014), or other forms of external citizenship (Bauböck, Perchinig, Sievers 2007;Štiks 2010).…”

Section: Conceptualizing Kin-state Politics: Between Irredentism and mentioning

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Kin-State Politics: Causes and Consequences

Waterbury

2020

Nationalities Papers

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This article situates the development of the kin-state politics literature within the context of post-Cold War scholarship on ethnicity, nationalism, and conflict. It outlines how an increasingly mature literature emerged around the domestic political and foreign policy drivers of kin-state politics as scholars drew from a number of perspectives, from the literature on irredentism to that on diaspora politics and transborder nationalism. The article then evaluates scholarship on the drivers and impacts of kin-state politics, with a focus on the consequences of kin-state politics for the cultural and political landscape of external kin communities and the impact on regional security and stability. While a rich and nuanced literature has helped to contextualize the tensions and complexities of the former, I argue that the latter needs to be developed further. Careful work needs to be done to more precisely establish the conditions under which kin-state politics constitute a security threat. Future scholarship should bring together a more ground level perspective of how kin-state policies are perceived, utilized, and/or instrumentalized by their intended subjects with a critical understanding of how the “game” of kin-state politics is played within the home state and the kin-state.

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The Citizenship Conundrum in Post-Communist Europe: The Instructive Case of Croatia

Cited by 27 publications

References 14 publications

Influence of hosting a major sports event on patriotic attitudes: The EuroBasket 2013 competition in Slovenia

Influence of hosting a major sports event on patriotic attitudes: The EuroBasket 2013 competition in Slovenia

Attitudes toward Immigrants Intertwined with Religion: Comparison of Croatia and Italy

Kin-State Politics: Causes and Consequences

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