Preliminary communication
The Structure of Working Yugoslavs According to the Sector of Activity in the Light of New Zeland’s Postwar Immigration Statistics
Branimir Banović
; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The socio-economic structure of immigrants who belong to individual ethnic groups (communities) in all immigration countries is both an essential component part of their overall demographic structure and a relevant indicator of their economic position and their level of integration in the social development of the autochthonous communities.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to determine with precision the contemporary socio-economic structure of the Yugoslavs in New Zealand. This is accounted far mostly by the scarcity and nature of New Zealand's immigration statistics. Aware of the fact that it is impossible to give a comprehensive account of the socio-economic structure of Yugoslav immigration in the country concerned, we have limited ourselves to the only possibility under the circumstances: a fragmentary account of the problems under study. In this context we have decided on a somewhat expanded account of the structure of working Yugoslavs according to the sector of activity (active and dependent immigrant population stocks, the ratios of working male and working female immigrants, etc.) as one of the basic segments of the overall socio-economic structure. With the purpose of providing a good explanation for the above-mentioned, multiply important structural segment and of placing it in the autochthonous social environment, we have focused on three different sectoral structures: the New Zealand one (an ideal!), the Dutch one (which ranks by its size as the leading European ethnic community in New Zealand), and the Yugoslav one (which ranks as the second major European ethnic community), comparing and assessing the three. For the same reasons, we have attempted, in closing, to show the so-called “degree of social distance” of the autochthonous environment (New Zealanders) vis-a-vis Yugoslav immigrants.
Keywords
immigration statistics; socio-economic structure; New Zealand; Yugoslavs
Hrčak ID:
128929
URI
Publication date:
29.3.1985.
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