Original scientific paper

Committee Members on Migration and Development

Milan Mesić ; Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

In the introductory part of the paper a critical review is given on the evolution of dominant notions regarding external migration. These are encountered also in the attitudes of queried committee members of the communal assemblies of Čakovec and Slunj. A questionnaire survey on migration and social development was conducted in March 1989, as part of the middle-term research project “External Migration and Social Development”. Besides noting an evolution of attitudes con¬cerning external migration – especially the attitudes of communist party members – according to the author the survey recorded the reflex of a new value orientation in regard to migration, which has been making itself apparent together with the current democratic changes in Croatia. This orientation was meaningfully expressed in the syntagma “Croatia abroad”. Using batteries of questions the respondents' attitudes on migration and local development, local migration perspectives and return migration were tested. Finally, with the help of a scale of opinions of the Likert type, three factors – i.e. three types of value orientations of the respondents in regard to external migra¬tion and development – were constructed: I – orientation towards further changes, II – satisfaction with achieved changes, and III – orientation toward entrepreneurialism.

Keywords

external migration; social development; migrants; value orientations

Hrčak ID:

127704

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/127704

Publication date:

28.12.1990.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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