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Welcome to the Transformative Podcast, which takes the year 1989 as a starting point to think about social, economic, and cultural transformations on a European and global scale. This podcast is produced by the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET) and its managing director Irena Remestwenski. Our patron is Philipp Ther, and we could not do it without Leonid Motz, Jannis Panagiotidis, Rosamund Johnston, Sheng Peng, and Jelena Dureinovic.
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Croatian Diaspora in Argentina (Nikolina Židek)
Episode 78
Wednesday, 15 April, 2026

How have the Croats in Argentina preserved their identity, memory, and community? How have they transmitted it across generations to this day? Following the collapse of the fascist Independent State of Croatia (1941–1945), around 10,000 Croats fled to Perón’s Argentina and settled there. In this episode of the Transformative Podcast, Nikolina Židek (IE University Madrid) discusses the formation of the Croatian diaspora in Argentina after the Second World War, its long history, and transformations. She tells Jelena Đureinović (RECET) about their self-perception as victims of communist persecution, postwar killings, and displacement, while erasing the wartime fascist state and its atrocities, and the meanings of this foundational myth for new generations today. Nikolina Židek is a Professor at IE University Madrid and a researcher specializing in diaspora and memory studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her work examines the Croatian post–World War II diaspora in Latin America and Spain, as well as the Spanish exile in Yugoslavia. Her book, The Croatian Diaspora in Argentina: From Martyrs to Memory Guardians, is forthcoming from CEU Press in early 2026.