Državljanstvo vs. integracija: iskustva visokoobrazovanih Hrvata iz Venezuele i Roma nogometaša
Citizenship vs. Integration: Experiences of Highly Educated Venezuelan Croats and Roma Footballers (Summary)

Summary/Abstract: The research focus of the article is on the following question: does citizenship imply integration into the society. The article is based on integration experiences of two groups. One is Croats in Venezuela, emigrants and their descendants, who received Croatian citizenship based on ethnicity and moved to Croatia, the country the majority of them had never lived in before. The other group is Roma national minority, who had been born in Croatia. These two seemingly unrelated groups are connected in terms of their Croatian citizenship and life in the Republic of Croatia. The research has shown that the informants are legally well integrated into Croatian society but not integrated with regards to other dimensions of integration and self-perception. Using the qualitative methodology of cultural anthropology, in this article we compare and analyze everyday practices of these co-ethnic migrants and members of a national minority, taking into consideration the following dimensions of the process of integration: socio-economic,cultural, interactional, identity-related, and legal and political. The research has shown that the process of integration should be viewed holistically.

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