A bánsági csehek : letelepedés, társadalmi szerveződés és identitás = he Banat Czechs : Colonialisation, Social organisation and Identity

Jakab, Albert Zsolt and Peti, Lehel (2023) A bánsági csehek : letelepedés, társadalmi szerveződés és identitás = he Banat Czechs : Colonialisation, Social organisation and Identity. In: Acta Ethnologica Danubiana 25. Forum Minority Research Institute, Komárom-Somorja, pp. 189-214. ISBN 978-80-89978-35-9

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Abstract

The study describes the settlement, the way of life and situation of the Czechs in the Banat after the regime change in 1989. Since the first half of the 19th century, the Czechs arriving in several waves, established their own settlements in the south-western part of the country, in the mountains covered with forests along the banks of the Danube. Initially they were engaged in logging, then in mining during the Communist Era. Before the regime change, their number was around 5,500, but it fell to 1,576 in 2021, partly due to the natural decline of the population and partly because of the immigration of the younger generation to the Czech Republic. Since then, remigration and ethnic tourism from the mother country have increased. The study seeks to answer the following questions: which migration patterns prevail, what happened to the communities of origin, how its meaning has been transformed among Czech migrants, how the homeland is represented in migration discourse and how Czechs from the motherland are seeking traditional rurality, exotic experiences and “time travel”, in turn influencing the ethnicity of ethnic Czechs in Romania.

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