Original scientific paper
The Sixteenth-Century Croatian Refugee Crisis and Modern Sociological Terminology
Ivan JURKOVIĆ
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to draw the attention of historians
to the results achieved by modern sociology in the field of
human migrations. The example of the sixteenth-century
Croatian demographic cataclysm is a good case in which
cooperation among scholars of other kindred disciplines might
result in high-quality studies of involuntary migrations. The
space, for example, as a ground for typology of migrations
may to a great extent explain the behavior of Croatian noble
displacees during the sixteenth century. Namely, also dependent
on the distance (short– or long-distance) of possible
accommodation of the family in the area spared by the war
was their persistence in the defense of their domicile area.
Similarly, an important role regarding the defense of the
domicile area was played by the phenomenon of bilocation
(active and passive) of a family or the use of chain migration as
a means of permanent attempts at survival there. Basic models
provided by sociologists are very good for explaining behavior
of displaced nobles in the eras of extremely low or enormously
high numbers of competitive migrants. The gravitational model,
on the other hand, explains the issue of the basic goals of
noble displacees – the preservation of privileged status, that is,
a very conservative type of migration.
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17976
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Publication date:
31.10.2005.
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