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Everyday Life in the Borderland Area Between Yugoslavia and Italy After WWII,
the Case of Northern Istria
Vsakdanje življenje v obmejnem prostoru med Jugoslavijo in Italijo
po drugi svetovni vojni, primer severne Istre

Petra Kavrečič
University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities
petra.kavrecic@fhs.upr.si

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Abstract:
ti The article studies the effects that the new border had on the territory. The main question is how the
abrupt absence in a territory caused by the creation of a new state border influenced its inhabitants. The
focus will be on the case of the formation of the Yugoslav-Italian border after the end of World War II.
ta how the process of bordering and the new border reality after the end of World War II, but especially af-
My interest is to present how the process of ‘bordering’ affected the studied territory. The aim is to study

ter 1954, affected the population, its everyday life and economic and social interactions. The studied ter-
ritory presents an interesting case of adaptation to the new political circumstances (with new states and
di state borders) affecting the population living near the new border, which did not exist in the past or at
least not for almost a hundred and fifty years.
My aim is to research how the past interconnections and relations changed radically and were interrupt-
ed after the border was established. The question is how communication, cooperation and the exchange
of goods were able to continue when the border caused a strong territorial division.
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Keywords: border area after WWII, Yugoslavia, Italy, Istria, everyday life

Članek preučuje učinke nove meje na ozemlje. Glavno vprašanje raziskuje, kako je nenadna odsot-
nost na nekem ozemlju zaradi nastanka nove državne meje vplivala na njegove prebivalce. Poudarek
bo na primeru oblikovanja jugoslovansko-italijanske meje po koncu druge svetovne vojne. Zanima me,
kako je »spreminjanje« oz. proces »obmejevanja« vplival na preučevano ozemlje. Analiziram, kako
studiauniversitatis sta proces razmejevanja in nova mejna realnost po koncu druge svetovne vojne, predvsem pa po letu
1954, vplivala na prebivalstvo, njegovo vsakdanje življenje, ekonomske in socialne interakcije. Preučeva-
no ozemlje predstavlja zanimiv primer prilagajanja novim političnim okoliščinam (z novimi državami
in državnimi mejami), ki so vplivale na prebivalstvo ob novi meji, ki je v preteklosti ali vsaj skoraj sto pe-
tdeset let ni bilo. Raziskujem, kako so se pretekle medsebojne povezave in odnosi po vzpostavitvi meje
korenito spremenili in prekinili. Postavlja se vprašanje, kako so se komunikacija, sodelovanje in izmen-
java dobrin obdržali v času (močne) ozemeljske razdeljenosti.
Ključne besede: mejno območje po 2. svetovni vojni, Jugoslavija, Italija, Istra, vsakdanje življenje

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