Review article

External Migration from West Herzegovina

Slavica Juka ; Faculty of Pedagogy, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract

The paper treats external migration from the region of West Herzegovina. The process of emigration became one of the major socio-geographic, socio-cultural and socio-economic traits of this region. The author examines migration during the Turkish advance, the migrationary and demographic picture of West Herzegovina during the Austro-Hungarian period, and during the first and second Yugoslavia. She likewise treats the connection between external migration and the ethnic situation in West Herzegovina. Finally, she discusses return migration and problems of families in the migration context, and the interrelationship between migration and development.

Keywords

external migration; West Herzegovina; ethnic situation; return migration; migrant families; development

Hrčak ID:

126957

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/126957

Publication date:

30.6.1995.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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