Original scientific paper
The Influence of Migration on Recent Total Population Trends in the Cres-Lošinj Area
Ivan Lajić
; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Depopulation has been one of the most frequent demographic processes on the Adriatic islands in this century. However, within this broad archipelago we can distinguish island subgroups in which depopulation has reached levels of extinction, and we can also find individual islands and island groups which show signs of revitalization. Such is the case of the island group Cres-Lošinj, which had recently shown an increase in population growth. This change has primarily been the result of a positive migration balance in the islands centres, and also in the main coastal settlements, while depopulation is still the case in the internal island areas and in small islands. This paper examines to what degree migration has affected the overall population trends in various individual settlement clusters in the island group of Cres and Lošinj in the past thirty years.
Keywords
depopulation; revitalization; population trends; Cres; Lošinj
Hrčak ID:
127253
URI
Publication date:
29.11.1993.
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