2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Research on the Correlation between the East European Countries and Their Diasporas Centering on the Interwar Period.
| Project/Area Number |
19520640
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
History of Europe and America
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| Research Institution | Nagoya City University |
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Principal Investigator |
YAMAMOTO Akiyo Nagoya City University, 大学院・人間文化研究科, 准教授 (70363950)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | 東欧 / アメリカ合衆国 / ディアスポラ / 両大戦間期 / ハンガリー |
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| Research Abstract |
This research defines the Diaspora as the ethnic communities outside of the homelands connecting with national and local organizations in their homelands via mutual network. This study examines the feature of Diasporas from Hungary and Czech-Slovakia centering on the interwar period. Taking up the case studies were the following : relationship between the East European ethnic groups in the United States and their homelands during World War I, Cosmopolitanism and Citizenship among East European immigrants, reconstructed homelands in the United States by Czech and Slovak Americans, the East European Diasporas involvement in Treaty of Trianon. By these case studies, it is clear that as the important actors the East European Diasporas exercised their influence on governments and local communities in homelands and host countries. In this way, they tried as the important actors to reform political system in their homelands from outside of borders.
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