Original scientific paper
Socio-Demographic Characteristics of a Refugee Contingent – War Refugee Flows from the Area of Dubrovnik
Ivan Lajić
; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This war has not by-passed Croatian areas with rich world-significant cultural values of the highest category. In the summer of 1991, the Serbian and Montenegrin aggressors attacked the area of Dubrovnik, and later in the autumn they bombed the very historic centre of the city. With the beginning of the aggression, the inhabitants of the villages in the commune of Dubrovnik mostly took refuge in the city of Dubrovnik, and many fled to safer places. At the end of 1991, a refugee contingent was surveyed, which included 11,800 persons. Although the survey was not fully based on a complete methodology, and was furthermore hindered by the difficult conditions in which it was conducted, its results are partially elaborated and interpreted in this paper. The basic demographic indices, the professional structure of the refugees, their health situation, and the way they fled are given. We hope that the paper will, at least in part, clarify and give witness to the horrors and consequences of the war for the inhabitants of the most southerly region of Croatia.
Keywords
refugees; demographic indices; war; Dubrovnik
Hrčak ID:
127432
URI
Publication date:
10.12.1991.
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