ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an insight into the constantly fluctuating environment of what is normally perceived as ethnic communities. The Yugoslavs concerned with in this chapter are individuals who started to appear in Australian-Croatian community organisations around the start of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and who had Croatian ethnic ancestries. The dynamism of boundary deiineation within the diaspora was particularly clearly discernible at the beginning of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Despite internal divisions, conflicts, ever-changing alliances and levels of cooperation in diaspora organisations, they nevertheless manage to promote the desired socio-cultural norms. Diasporas are commonly known to be prone to antagonisms and divisiveness. Politics plays a central role in the initiation of schismatic tendencies and that even disputes between the religious and the profane draw their legitimacy from political platforms.
