Kompetenčné spory Osídľovacieho úradu pre Slovensko s centrálnymi československými úradmi a ich vplyv na osídlenie prvého reemigračného transportu z Rumunska
| Title in English | Responsibility disputes between the Settlement Office for Slovakia and the central Czechoslovak authorities, and their influence on the settlement of the first group of re-migrants from Romania |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Historický časopis |
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| web | https://www.historickycasopis.sk/index.php?id=hc42024-richtarikova-tereza-kompetencne-spory-osidlovacieho-uradu-pre-slovensko-s-centralnymi-ceskoslovenskymi-uradmi-a-ich-vplyv-na-osidlenie-prveho-reemigracneho-transportu-z-rumunska |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.31577/histcaso.2024.72.4.5 |
| Keywords | Czechoslovakia; Slovakia; 20. century; Forced migration; Population transfer; Minority policies; Nationalism; Policymaking |
| Description | The migration waves that hit Czechoslovakia after the end of the Second World War are among the factors that have significantly shaped Czech and Slovak society to this day. Both forced and voluntary population transfers in this period were aimed, at least declaratively, at the creation of ethnically homogeneous states. The Settlement Office for Slovakia, together with its Czech counterpart, was one of the key institutions of organized migration to Czechoslovakia. In a complicated political and cultural environment marked by dual administration and an unresolved Czech – Slovak relationship, a number of external factors interfered with its activities, which ultimately influenced the fate of individual groups of re-migrants arriving in Czechoslovakia. Ambiguously defined responsibilities of the central and Slovak authorities often led to disputes of authority. One of the most interesting ones broke out in the autumn of 1946 between the Second Department of the Settlement Office for Slovakia and the Czechoslovak Resettlement Commission, or by extension the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, and concerned the efforts of the Second Department of the Settlement Office for Slovakia to gain full control over the re-migration process of foreign Slovaks, including the posting of its own representatives abroad. The extremely expansive interpretation of its powers that the Second Department of the Settlement Office for Slovakia espoused in the dispute reveals not only the functional limits of the „asymmetrical federation,“ but also the differences in thinking about the Czech – Slovak relationship in the reconstituted state, and the position of the individual nationalities within it. |
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