Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.5673/sip.50.3.5
Migration of Farmers in Montenegro (1948.-2011.)
Rade Šarović
orcid.org/0000-0003-2097-7671
; Faculty of Philosophy in Niksic, Department of Sociology, University of Montenegro, Montenegro
Abstract
For rural areas of Montenegro recent decades are characterized by distinct discontinuity in the
development. In Montenegro, as well as in economically more developed parts of the world,
industrialization caused the process of deagrarization and deruralization and manifested in
the reduction of the agricultural population in total population, and reduction of the number
of residents who remain to live in villages. The specificity of these changes in Montenegro
was reflected in the fact that the process went very quickly, much faster than in neighboring
countries and in more developed parts of the world. The share of agricultural population in
total population, reduced 12 times for six decades – from about 80% immediately after the
Second World War, to below 10%, according to the latest estimates. In a short period of time
(even unnaturally short for this type of social processes) an enormous number of people
changed occupation, place and style of living. This paper presents a brief summary of the
Montenegrin rural dramas in recent decades, which end is not in sight.
Keywords
village; population trends; migration; deagrarization; deruralization; Montenegro; aging population
Hrčak ID:
96101
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Publication date:
8.1.2013.
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