![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Taking into account these discourses and policies in wartime Romania – and their effects on Romania’s minority communities – we can arrive at a more holistic understanding of localized events such as those involving the Catholic communities in Moldavia. What then, was to be done with them? For Romania’s ardent nation builders the answer was unequivocal: either dispatch the dysgenic minority groups or else incorporate them into the national ethos and ultimately the national body. In an increasingly nationalist environment, Romania’s ethnic minorities were seen as incompatible with the homogenous nation-state. Research in Romanian archives and a number of journals published in wartime Romania suggests that biopolitical discourse was not limited to government and intellectual circles it also had direct and indirect impacts on Romanian’s minority communities, penetrating their political and even religious discourse. In this way, we can better gauge the impact of prevailing nationalist discourses and policies on Romania’s ethnic and religious enclaves. I intend to build upon existing scholarship by examining the immediate impact of such discourse and policies on minority communities subject to Romanianization or expatriation-that is, by examining these phenomena from the bottom up. This article outlines a methodological framework for re-examining the Moldavian Csángós in the context of Romanian biopolitics and population policies during WWII. ![]()
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