Regional, local and global identity of Vojvodinians

Abstract

In this article certain problems concerning bindness of citizens to their local and regional milieu, as well as for wider territorial wholeness to which Province of Vojvodina belongs geographically and politically are discussed. The article is based on the analysis of the empirical data collected in autumn 2002 by questioning 1200 inhabitants of Vojvodina and they are compared with other similar surveys, especially with earlier one which same authors carried out in autumn 2000. The results indicates increasing of identification with the province of Vojvodina and Republic of Serbia, but decreasing of the earlier importance of the local adherence. In comparison with the research carried out in 2000, the Vojvodinians are mostly estranged from the State Community of Serbia and Montenegro (former FR Yugoslavia). In the same time, the questioned citizens shows outstanding ambivalence in orientations to the Europe