Trickster Logics in the Hungarian Dual-Citizenship Offer

Papp Z., Attila (2017) Trickster Logics in the Hungarian Dual-Citizenship Offer. NATIONALISM AND ETHNIC POLITICS, 23 (1). pp. 18-32. ISSN 1353-7113

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Abstract

This article argues that the option of dual citizenship, available since 2010 for Hungarians living abroad, carries the possibility to create new types of national and civic identification patterns. This process can be considered as liminal, since it attempts to modify the nature of minority identity that was created by historic traumas and became institutionalized as social order, and because it attempts to open a new chapter in the relationship between Hungary and the Hungarian minority communities abroad. Although the patterns of the new (citizenship-influenced) minority identity are already somewhat visible, the full elaboration of this identity is yet to come. Therefore, the “managers” of the identity change might become tricksters.

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