Research on the Correlation between the East European Countries and Their Diasporas Centering on the Interwar Period.

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This research defines the Diaspora as the ethnic communities outside of the homelands connecting with national and local organizations in their homelands via mutual network. This study examines the feature of Diasporas from Hungary and Czech-Slovakia centering on the interwar period. Taking up the case studies were the following : relationship between the East European ethnic groups in the United States and their homelands during World War I, Cosmopolitanism and Citizenship among East European immigrants, reconstructed homelands in the United States by Czech and Slovak Americans, the East European Diasporas involvement in Treaty of Trianon. By these case studies, it is clear that as the important actors the East European Diasporas exercised their influence on governments and local communities in homelands and host countries. In this way, they tried as the important actors to reform political system in their homelands from outside of borders.