Integration and identity of the Transylvanian-Saxons in Salzburg since the Second-World-War

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" Integration and identity of the Transylvanian-Saxons in Salzburg since the Second-World-War "
Julia Christine Schonheinz

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	54495
Doc. No	:	TL24449
Call number	:	‭U601849‬
Main Entry	:	Julia Christine Schonheinz
Title & Author	:	Integration and identity of the Transylvanian-Saxons in Salzburg since the Second-World-War\ Julia Christine Schonheinz
College	:	University of Bath (United Kingdom)
Date	:	2006
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2006
Page No	:	336
Abstract	:	This thesis examines the integration process and identity of three generations of Transylvanian-Saxons in Salzburg, Austria since the Second-World War, testing four hypotheses. An overview of the most important historical events in Transylvania from their settlement to the dispersion of a large number of Transylvanian-Saxons in the 1940s, provides an insight into their changing political, administrative and personal rights and powers subject to different rulers (Hungary, Turkish empire, Austrian- Hungarian empire, Romania) controlling the area of Transylvania. This is followed by a general assessment of studies of national identity and a description of stages of development in Transylvanian-Saxon identity and its key characteristics. Hypotheses assuming evidence of a continued Transylvanian-Saxon identity in Salzburg and within it elements of the main characteristics described were tested through participant observation and interviews with members of three generations of Transylvanian-Saxons. Two further hypotheses were used to test changes in the sense of Transylvanian-Saxon identity within the three groups, and demographic factors influencing the immigrant identity of the first generation group. The results show that there is a feeling or association of Transylvanian-Saxon identity perceptible in all three generations, although on a varying level: while the first generation clearly defines itself as Transylvanian-Saxon, the second generation's self-description tends to be a combination of seeing oneself as only Transylvanian-Saxon, only Austrian or a combination of both. The majority of the third generation acknowledges Transylvanian-Saxon influences to have added to their sense of identity, and therefore rejects the notion of being 'completely' Austrian. While some characteristics of 'traditional' Transylvanian-Saxon identity were still found in interviewees from all three generations, others, such as adherence to a Protestant belief, seem to have lost their importance due to integration in a modern society.
Subject	:	(UMI)AAIU601849; Social sciences; Austria; Postwar; European history; 0335:European history
Added Entry	:	University of Bath (United Kingdom)