The Romanians of Vojvodina and the State. A Community Beyond Definition, a Century of Changes

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the mobility of the Romanians in Vojvodina during the last one hundred years, and show that the dynamics of this population significantly changed its profile, making the use of both “historical Romanian community” and “Romanian diaspora” unfit to reflect the current state of this community. In the first part of the paper, the authors present the autochthonous Romanian community of Vojvodina until the First World War, to focus then on the influx of Romanian citizens registered after this date, who merged with the existing population. In the second part, the authors analyze the state policies of Yugoslavia, and later Serbia, towards their national minorities and foreign citizens in the country, and the effect they had on the Romanians within the borders of the country.