Anders E. B. Blomqvist

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Economic nationalizing in the ethnic borderlands of Hungary and Romania

THE HISTORY OF the ethnic borderlands of Hungary and Romania inthe years 1867-1944 was marked by changing national borders,ethnic conflicts and economic problems. Using a local case study ofthe city and county of Szatmár/Satu-Mare, this thesis investigates thepractice and social mechanisms of economic nationalizing. It exploresthe interplay between ethno-national and economic factors, andfurthermore analyses what social mechanisms lead to and explaininclusion, exclusion and annihilation.The empirical results show that citizenship in both countries wasseparated in an ethnically hierarchical way, making minorities secondclasscitizens. This process of ethnic, and finally racial, exclusionmarked the whole period, culminating in the annihilation of Jewsthroughout most of Hungary in 1944.The overall thesis is that economic nationalizing through theexclusion of minorities induces vicious circles of ethnic bifurcation,political instability and unfavorable conditions for achievingeconomic prosperity. Exclusion served the elite’s short-term interestbut undermined the nation’s long-term ability to prosper.

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