Међунационални односи: Срби у Батањи

Abstract

Међунационални односи између српске мањинске заједнице у Батањи и већинског мађарског становништва, с једне стране, као и две мањинске заједнице – српске и румунске, с друге стране, разматрају се у раду на јавном и приватном нивоу, као и на личном и колективном плану.

This paper deals with international relations between the Serbian minority community and the Hungarian majority in Battonya, and in addition, the relations between the two minority groups – Serbs and Romanians, from historical perspective, with a special emphasis on the attitudes of the Serbian minority. Various levels and types of the inter-relations among these communities are being assessed and analyzed – on public, private, individual and collective level. Moreover, the paper discusses the most important factors that have influenced the creation of ethnic boundaries between the Serbs and Hungarians and Romanians on the other side. The analysis shows that the inter-relations between the Serbs and Hungarians have gone through different stages: from a total separation before WW II, following their institutional cooperation later, to harmonious and deeper personal relations of the members at present. On the other hand, the inter-relations of the Serbs and Romanians, during the whole period, were marked by a mutual tolerance and ethnic boundary flexibility, though recently, there has been some degree of separation between the two.