The aim of this essay is to investigate how the youth department of the biggest Croatian immigrant organization, Narodona Hrvatska Zajednica (NHZ; the National Croatian Society), tried to organize, mobilize, and even unite Croatian immigrant children during WWI. The youth section of NHZ, Pomladak Narodne Hrvatske Zajednice (Pomladak NHZ; The Junior Order of the National Croatian Society), was established at the end of 1915 and grew exponentially during WWI.
Pomladak NHZ functioned as a fraternal and national organization for children of Croatian immigrant workers and provided aids, benefits, and other services for children and their families. This encouraged many immigrant families to let their children join Pomladak NHZ. The organization was also an important tool to create and reinforce the image of the nation and the race among the younger generation. More importantly, while it propagated their Croatian national consciousness, Pomladak NHZ supported the ideas of South Slavic and Slavic solidarity. This transnational movement helped encourage the U.S. society to accept Croatians and assist them in adjusting to their new surroundings more easily.
In conclusion, through their social and cultural activities, the media, and their fraternal network, Pomladak NHZ developed transnational links between branches of NHZ and Pomladak NHZ and other Croatian associations in the U.S., Europe, and the rest of the world. They also presented the formed but ever changing image of the nation and the race to Croatian immigrant children, which were closely associated with the political, economic, social, and cultural contexts in the U.S. and their homeland.
内容記述
論文
Articles
雑誌名
アメリカ太平洋研究 = Pacific and American studies
巻
18
ページ
81 - 97
発行年
2018-03
ISSN
13462989
書誌レコードID
AA11562201
著者版フラグ
publisher
出版者
東京大学大学院総合文化研究科附属グローバル地域研究機構アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター
出版者別名
Center for Pacific and American Studies, Institute for Advanced Global Studies, The University of Tokyo
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子どもたちの組織化と越境的なネットワーク : 第一次世界大戦中の米国クロアチア民族協会青少年部
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