1st Edition
Minorities, Identity and Intermarriage A European Perspective
Introduction
Karolina Lendák-Kabók and Martin Klatt
Part I: Changing Perspectives on Intermarriages through History
1. What’s Love Got to Do with It? From the Peril of Mixed Marriages to the Promise of Bilingual Families in Post-War Finland
Mats Wickström, Hanna Lindberg and Jutta Ahlbeck
2. Between Illegality and Approval: Three Cases of Roma Intermarriage in Moldavia, 1800–1855
Cristina Mocanu
3. Was it a Mixed Marriage? Legal Files from the Documentary Prose of Tibor Várady
Marija Mandić
Part II: State Policies around Intermarriages
4. Intermarriage and Multiethnicity among Spanish Roma: Transgressing Problematised Interethnic Divisions
Dan Rodríguez-García
5. Roma in mixed-ethnic partnerships and ethnic identification of their children in 1990, 2011 and 2022, in Hungary
Laura Szabó
6. Maneuvering between nationalizing policies: ethnically marked choices in the Ukrainian-Hungarian intermarriages in Transcarpathia, Ukraine
Patrik Tátrai, Viktória Ferenc, Julianna Kohut-Ferki, Katalin Kovály and József Molnár
7. Bridging the Divide: Interethnic Marriages in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Nađa Beglerović
Part III: Negotiating difference: culture, language and identity
8. The Dynamics of Ethnic Self-Identification and Belonging in Slovenian-Italian Minority Mixed Families
Mateja Sedmak and Maja Zadel
9. Marriage Across Borders
Erik Kühl and Martin Klatt
10. Building Commonalities and Belonging in Turkish-Kurdish intermarriages in Izmir, Turkey
Gül Özateşler Ülkücan
11. Remarks on Identity in Sorbian-German families in Upper Lusatia: Navigating the First Language as a Criterion for Ethnic Categorisation
Sara Mičkec
12. Kosovo: A Region without Intermarriages
Sanja Zlatanović
Part IV: Born into intermarriages: impact on children and youth
13. Romanian Mixed Families: From National to Transnational Identities
Áron Telegdi-Csetri and Viorela Ducu
14. Navigating Identity and Belonging: Young Adults from Mixed Serb-Hungarian Families in Serbia
Karolina Lendák-Kabók
15. How long should the Christmas tree be decorated? Autoethnographic Study on Growing up in Mixed Marriage Along Croatia-Montenegro Border
Jelena Seferović
16. A Study of Family Language Policy and Intercultural Communication in Estonian-Russian Mixed Households
Anastassia Zabrodskaja
Biography
Karolina Lendák-Kabók is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary.
Martin Klatt is Head of the Research Cluster Minority Issues in the Denmark--Germany border region at the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI).
