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Rumuni; migracije; religijski identitet; Severna Amerika; etničke i verske manjine ; In this paper we have tried to show different aspects of the Romanian emigration from the Serbian Banat, from the perspective of religious migration. The material collected for the purposes of this paper came to be result of ethnographic research of the Romanian neo-Protestant diaspora, based on interviews with pastors from the Serbian Banat and the believers in the United States and Canada and available literature. The paper is divided into two thematic areas. In the first part, we present a brief historical sketch of the Romanians in the Banat region. The second part is devoted to the issues of emigration to overseas countries – the United States and Canada and to the integration of Romanians abroad. The issue of emigration of the Romanians to North America has occupied, so far, a number of researchers who have been trying to explain the reasons for emigration in the recent history. Although the topic of this paper is a special type of migration – religious migration, it cannot be considered in isolation, but only in the broader context of migrations and significance of religion for immigrant communities. Thus, we indicate several stages in Romanian emigration, which are allocated according to the socio-economic and political conditions that prevailed during the twentieth century. Beside Romanians, members of different ethnic groups have emigrated from communist countries of East and South-East Europe to West Europe, North America or Australia. Among them, representatives of different minority religious groups were also present. Belonging to minority religious group that had unrecognized and marginalized status in the home country was one of the reasons for migration – escaping religious oppression. At beginning of the 20th century, after the Romanians from the Serbian Banat joined and formed a large number of local neo-Protestant communities, they found themselves in the position of a double minority – ethnic and religious. As the position of the neo-Protestant communities in different social and political circumstances was unfavorable, some religious groups (such as the Nazarenes), began to emigrate very early on, not only for economic reasons, but mainly in search of religious freedom. By going to the New World, the Romanians joined already existing neo-Protestant or they established new communities, which would greatly affect their integration into the new environment. In a secular society of the United States and Canada, in a variety of different religious communities of Protestant origin, the Romanian neo-Protestants were free to exercise their religious practices with no restraints within the new communities. ; U savremenim istraživanjima migracija, veza između religije i emigracije predstavlja važan element za razumevanje promena kolektivnih identiteta nakon iseljavanja, kao i odnosa prema matičnoj zemlji. U ovom radu, pored pregleda iseljavanja Rumuna tokom 20. veka, ukazujemo na ulogu religije na procese emigracije i integracije rumunske etničke manjine sa prostora srpskog Banata u Severnoj Americi. Kako je položaj verskih zajednica, naročito verskih manjina, u različitim društvenim i političkim okolnostima tokom 20. veka bio nepovoljan, pojedine verske grupe, kao što su nazareni, veoma rano počinju da emigriraju u potrazi za verskom slobodom. U slučaju Rumuna koji su pripadali neoprotestantskim zajednicama, religija se posmatra kao "kanal" za migraciju, ali i put za bržu integraciju u novoj sredini.

The paper is devoted to issues of emigration to overseas countries the United States and Canada, and of integration of Romanian neo-Protestants from the Serbian Banat into the Diaspora. Since the position of neo-Protestant communities in different social and political circumstances was unfavorable, neo-Protestant believers began to emigrate, not only for economic reasons, but mainly in search of religious freedom. The emigration of Romanian neo-Protestants was particularly intense from the mid-sixties, when the Yugoslav communist regime allowed its citizens to travel abroad. By going to the New World, now a triple minority, the Romanians originated in the Serbian Banat joined existing neo-Protestant communities or established new communities, which would greatly affect their integration into the new environment, but also the creation of a separate and in many ways specific identity.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Acknowledgements -- Mihai I. Spariosu: Introduction -- Bibliography -- Part One. Intercultural Contact: Applied Theories -- Victor Neumann: Between Orthodox Byzantium and Catholic Europe: Banat and Its Multiple-Coded Cultural Legacies -- Bibliography -- Mihai I. Spariosu: Cultural or Intercultural Studies in East-Central Europe? Preliminary Observations -- Bibliography -- Vasile Boari: Identity Crisis and the Failure of Multiculturalist Policies in the New Europe -- Formulating the questions -- The Judaeo-Christian legacy -- The Main Elements of European Identity at Present -- The Challenges of European Identity -- The Crisis of the European Identity -- Multiculturalism: Definitions, Typologies, and Brief History -- Interculturalism versus Multiculturalism -- The Failure of Multiculturalism as Public Policy in Western Europe -- Does Multiculturalism Represent a Challenge to New Europe's identity? -- Multiculturalism and the European Identity -- Bibliography -- Daniela Cervinschi: Beyond Assimilation and Multiculturalism: Theories and Policies in Cultural Diversity Management -- 1. Theories of Assimilation -- 2. Acculturation Theory -- 3. Multiculturalism and Post-Multiculturalism -- Transnationalism and Post-Multiculturalism -- Transnationalism -- Post-Multiculturalism -- 4. Interculturalism versus Multiculturalism -- 5. Moldavian Multiculturalism - A Failed Experiment -- Gagauzian territorial autonomy - a form of multiculturalism -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- References -- Part Two. Intercultural Contact: Case Studies in Banat and Transylvania, 1849-1939 -- Lorand Madly: Neoabsolutism and Liberalism: Nation and Habsburg Politics after 1848 -- References.