Balkan Transnationalism at the Time of Neoliberal Catastrophe by Dušan I. Bjelić

Author:Dušan I. Bjelić [Bjelić, Dušan I.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367661656
Barnesnoble:
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-09-30T00:00:00+00:00

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.

1 Catherine Baker recently published a book on the topic, but as its release date was shortly before our submission deadline, we were not able to include it.

2 SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SR Croatia, SR Macedonia, SR Montenegro, SR Serbia, SR Slovenia, SAP Kosovo, and SAP Vojvodina.

3 For a detailed overview of the debt crisis and its interaction with nationalist forces, see Jović (2001); Woodward (2003); Živković (2014).

4 The Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia was renamed the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) in 1963.

5 In 1991 no central register of Yugoslav citizens existed.

6 Official figures from the Ministry of Interior after internal examination of databases in 2009.

7 The consequences of erasure were foreseen in the process of passing the Acts that caused it. For example, delegate Metka Mencin’s amendment to article 81 of the Alien Act would enable citizens of other republics of the former SFRY with permanent residence to keep their status regardless of application for Slovenian citizenship.

8 Article 40 of the Citizenship of the Republic of Slovenia Act and article 81 of the Aliens Act.

9 Their loss of legal status includes the loss of health insurance, prohibition or loss of legal employment, denial of pension rights, impossibility of purchasing an apartment at a noncommercial price, impossibility of education at secondary level, family dispersion (actual separation because of expulsion or formal separation because of removal from household records), detention and deportation from Slovenia, violation of the right to free movement (vulnerability due to illegal residence within Slovenia; if outside, impossibility to return due to lack of valid documents), loss of the right to formal recognition of paternity, impossibility of entering contractual relations and legally driving or registering a car, exclusion from political participation, exposure to arbitrary conduct of police and administrative employees, loss of access to any social transfers, etc. (Zorn 2003, 134–35). For more, see Dedić (2003).

10 For example, they lost the right to buy apartments at affordable prices.

11 Nontheless we need to be careful when exploring the contours of race in former Yugoslavia. In her essay on the ambiguous role of Roma minority rights in a securitarian register and the conditioned hierarchical inclusion of Eastern European states in the process of EU enlargement, Ivasiuc (2017) warns that “Goldberg’s focus on the colonial legacies of race in Europe implicitly posits ‘racial Europeanisation’ as Western Europeanisation, effectuating inadvertently an erasure of Eastern Europe from Europe itself.” Any further research on this topic should take seriously the complexity and contextualization of different geographical and historical race constructions.

12 However, it stipulated a three-month deadline for applications.

13 On 24 January 2009, internal examination by the Ministry of Interior showed that among 25,671 erased persons, 1,302 have died; 10,943 have arranged their permanent status (7,313 acquired Slovene citizenship); and 13,426 haven’t acquired any status in Slovenia.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.