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Claiming Ethnic Privilege: Aromanian Immigrants and Romanian Fascist Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2015

ROLAND CLARK
ROLAND CLARK*
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Eastern Connecticut State University, 350 Webb Hall, 83 Windham Street, Willimantic, CT 06226, USA; clarkrol@easternct.edu
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Abstract

Large numbers of Aromanian immigrants in Southern Dobruja joined the fascist Legion of the Archangel Michael during the early 1930s. Deterritorialised by population transfers and state-building in Greek Macedonia, they reterritorialised themselves as ethnic Romanians ‘coming home’ to colonise Southern Dobruja. This article situates the Aromanian turn to fascist politics within the problems they faced during migration. It argues that Aromanians used fascism to assert their identities as Romanians and to claim ethnic privileges that had been denied them as immigrants.

Revendication de privilèges ethniques: les immigrants aroumains et la politique fasciste en roumanie

Les immigrants aroumains de la Dobroudja du Sud ont été nombreux, au début des années trente, à s’engager dans la légion fasciste de l’Archange Michel. Déterritorialisés par les transferts de population et les efforts de création d’un État en Macédoine grecque, ils se sont reterritorialisés en tant que Roumains de souche ‘rentrés au bercail’ pour coloniser la Dobroudja du Sud. Cet article replace le choix fasciste des Aroumains dans le contexte des problèmes qu’ils ont connus au cours de leur migration. Selon l’auteur, les Aroumains se sont servis du fascisme pour affirmer leur identité en tant que Roumains et pour revendiquer des privilèges ethniques qui leur avaient été refusés lorsqu’ils étaient immigrants.

Beanspruchung ethnischer privilegien: aromunische einwanderer und der faschismus in rumänien

In den frühen dreißiger Jahren traten zahlreiche aromunische Einwanderer in der südlichen Dobrudscha der faschistischen Legion des Erzengels Michael bei. Die durch Bevölkerungsumsiedlungen und Staatenbildung in Griechisch-Mazedonien deterritorialisierten Aromunen suchten sich als ‘heimgekommene’ ethnische Rumänen durch Ansiedlung in der südlichen Dobrudscha eine neue Heimat zu schaffen. Dieser Beitrag führt die Hinwendung der Aromunen zum Faschismus auf die Probleme zurück, mit denen sie sich während der Migration konfrontiert sahen. Er argumentiert, dass die Aromunen den Faschismus instrumentalisierten, um ihre Identität als Rumänen zu stärken und ethnische Privilegien zu beanspruchen, die ihnen als Einwanderern verwehrt worden waren.

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Contemporary European History , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , February 2015 , pp. 37 - 58
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