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Change of state, change of citizenship or how new state redefined access to citizenship: the case of Croatian-Slavonian area in the monarchical Yugoslavia (1918-1941)

Citizenship is a complex concept that includes status, rights, and identity dimension. As a multidimensional concept, it is vital for a certain society and legal system. Besides as a multidimensional concept, citizenship is also a kind of border. Those who have it are included while the others remain excluded. The complexity of the concept and a concept as a border also mean that there is no one but rather many borders that affect each dimension of citizenship. Further, especially challenging for citizenship as a border can be change of state regime. Then we regularly testify redefinition of previously established concept of citizenship and the borders related with it. Previous notions give us starting point for the analysis of citizenship as a border on the territory of the first Yugoslav state from 1918 on. In the research, we will concentrate on Croatian-Slavonian legal area, one of six legal areas in the First Yugoslavia. The research focus will be on one aspect of citizenship, namely on possibilities of access to citizenship. Here we will analyse how the new Yugoslav state redefined access to citizenship and compare new legislative solutions and practical regime with regime valid in Croatia-Slavonia before 1918, when this land was part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

citizenship, access, Kingdom of SCS, Kingdom of Yugoslavia

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