Sociology and Space, No. 5-6, 1964.
Original scientific paper
MUTUAL RELATIONSHIPS AND INFLUENCES OF AUTOCHTONS AND COLONISTS AFTER THE SECOND WORLD
Borislav Dimković
Abstract
This paper the author starts with presenting some of the factors and reasons
for the colonization to the regions of Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. For centures
Vojvodina has been an attractive immigration area. Nowdavs in Vojvodina
live over 31% of population born in other regions of Yugoslavia. After the la^t
world war a large number of German inhabitants deserted their estates and homes
in Vojvodina having left the land without proprietors. On the other hand in mountainous
and backward areas of the country there w'ere many former partizan
fighters, invalids and u'ar widows mostly landless and homeless. Their colonization
to Vojvodina was the sole and the right solution of their imperilled existence.
In the second part, the author presents his methodological approach to the
undertaken investigation. He used the method of direct observation and survey
sample comprising 222 households with 1,050 members in one of many typical
colonist communities in Vojvodina. He divided the population into three groups
1) autochtons are those inhabitants w'ho settled in before the last w'orld war, 2)
internal colonist are those who moved in and settled there after the II world war
but from the vicinity of the observed colonist community and 3) external colonists
who were colonized under the program of colonization of the new established
socialistic state from other regions of Yugoslavia after the II world w?ar. The
author analysed the mutual relations and attitudes of noted groups according to
marriage, changes in occupation, transformation of family, friendly relations,
attitudes of groups to each other before and after the colonization and in that
connection notes the different social characteristics of groups as an explanation
of the results and conclusions of his analysis. The author drew very interesting
conclusions from the questionnaire designed to find out what are the attitudes
of colonists towards their former native communities. The general conclusion ol
the author says that the group of external colonists, in comparison wnth the other
two groups, is more mobile horizontally and vertically and that the process ol
adaptations of both groups of colonists developed considerably slower than it was
expected.
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121351
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Publication date:
21.7.1964.
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