Repatriates a re-emigrants into Czechoslovakia after the First World War - the process of granting citizenship by the Ministry of Interior

Abstract

This article focuses on the process of granting Czechoslovakian citizenship to our compat-riots (repatriates and re-emigrants). It analyses the situation in newly created Czechoslovakia after the end of the First World War and it also very briefly characterises the notions of citizenship, re-emigration, repatriation and "home law".

At the end this article focuses on an activity of Ministry of Interior in cases of granting citizenship in interwar Czechoslovakia.

Keywords

• Czechoslovakia
• state citizenship
• re-emigration
• repatriation
• Ministry of Interior
• unifica-tion