Abstract
ABSTRACT This article interrogates and contextualises the settler identification discourses related to Danube Swabians in Entre Rios/Guarapuava in southern Brazil (Paraná). It looks into the origins of Danube Swabian ‘settlerness’, asking why does it play a central role in Danube Swabian identity constructions in Brazil (but also beyond), and how has it changed over time. It follows settlerness as a thread from before the migration to Entre Rios up to the present, fleshing out its meanings and emphasising the persistence as well as the malleability of settler tropes. Discussing Danube Swabians in Brazil, the article pleads for a general critical analysis of the entanglements connecting apparently disparate spaces, such as southeastern Europe and southern Brazil, within a global history of settler colonialism, settler migration, and settler imaginations. Moreover, in engaging with the category ‘settlerness’ - as a category of practice as well as one of analysis – it shows some of the gains and limitations of the theorisations pertaining to settler colonial studies.
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