Intercultural marriages in Vojvodina

Sekulić, Milena (2022) Intercultural marriages in Vojvodina. In: Contemporary Trends in Tourism and Hospitality – CTTH 2022. Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Science, University Novi Sad, p. 10. ISBN 978-86-7031-615-7

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Abstract

Marriage is considered one of the oldest social institutions. The re search topic is the characteristics and changes of marriage in the ter ritory of AP Vojvodina from the second half of the 2oth century until 2020. In the second half of the 20th century, the cohabitation of un married partners and alternative forms of community gained more importance. Also, divorces are becoming more frequent, marriages are shorter, and remarriage is rare. Changes in marriage trends af fect changes in family and social structures and significantly shape future demographic trends. In z9so, the number of marriages in Vo jvodina was I9,681, and from the second half of the seventies of the 2oth century, it began to decline sharply until 2019, when up to so% fewer marriages were concluded than in I950. The data were collected from the Demographic Statistics publication. Vojvodina stands out as a unique area in Europe, with an extraordinary concentration of dif ferent ethnic groups. The interculturality of this area was created by the waves of settlement of numerous peoples, which resulted in a sig nificant share of mixed marriages, and which additionally imposed the need to research the characteristics and changes of marriage in the population of Vojvodina.

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