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La mixité en ex-yougoslavie. Intégration ou ségrégation des nationalités ?

1996; Presses Universitaires De France; Volume: 27; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3406/receo.1996.2801

2259-6100

Snježana Mrdjen,

China's Global Influence and Migration

Ethnically mixed families in former Yugoslavia. Integration or segregation of nationalities ? There are two indicators, i.e. mixed marriages and the nationality of children born of such marriages, which serve to clarify interethnic relationships in Yugoslavia. Following a rapid increase after the Second World War, the rate of exogamous marriages in the former Yugoslavia has slowed down, revealing, as with other demographic constructions, certain regional variations : the North exogamous, the South endoga- mous. Although the number of exogamous marriages is highest in Voivodina, it is Slovenia which has the best record for assimilation of national minorities in its territory. In Kosovo, which has the highest rate of endogamy in the former Yugoslavia, the position is reversed. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, there are many fewer exogamous marriages than one might expect. In families of this type, national feeling among the parents is not strong, and the children for the most part are registered as Yugoslav. In mixed marriages, the children mainly take the nationality of their parents, and mostly that of their father ; they only proclaim themselves Yugoslav in 12 % of cases. As in the case of interethnic marriages, the North-South divide is apparent, with patrili- near and matrilinear types coexisting in the North, while in the South the patrilinear type predominates.