Issue of national minorities social identity and euro-integration processes in Serbia

Abstract

In this work are analyzed, in basis of survey data, acceptability of some identification frames by means of national minorities’ membership importance of nation, birth area, Serbia, State Community Serbia and Monte Negro and European Community reviewing. The data says the nationality is the most important determinant of make up one’s mind and that there are tendencies that different nationalities members estimate importance of offered entities membership in different way. General result is that the most importance is given to local and national membership but the least to Serbian and Federal membership. We can conclude that there isn’t consent between national minorities about offered identification frames. Minorities can bee divided in two groups: first which accept Serbia as their state (Romanians and Slovaks at first) and the second group which aren’t gracious toward Serbia as frame for their social identification (here belong Albanians at first but Hungarian and Muslims/Boshnak partly). The problem with second group is that they are thickly concentrated minorities on some parts of country. In basis of data we can suppose possibility of potential crisis and conflicts developing about and around particular nations in close future.

Keywords

• social identity
• identification frame
• nation
• nationality
• local membership
• state membership