Review article

Emigration – question of development and/or safety?

Monika Balija orcid.org/0000-0001-7350-2798 ; Posgraduate Study Program of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Demographic problem area of contemporary Croatia considering increased intensity of negative parameters and trends is to a large extent becoming a key issue of development of Croatian society and space. Besides long lasting natural decrease of population, in recent years Croatian soil was marked by increased emigration, increased negative external migration balance and loss of development demographic potential. Scope and spatial allocation of the origin of Croatian migration, negative migration rate with foreign countries and demographic structures of migration contingent are indicators which impose the question of short-term and long-term implications on the overall, and especially socio-economic development of the country. Emigration of young, educated and potentially reproductive population endangers almost all basic systems in the country, necessitating the importance of discussing basic principles related to emigration. Furthermore, intensified exodus from Croatia in conditions of migration crisis and movement of a large number of population from North Africa and the Near East towards Europe expectedly imposes the necessity to discuss migrations from the aspect of safety as well.

Keywords

migrations; emigration; Croatia; development; safety

Hrčak ID:

223348

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/223348

Publication date:

1.6.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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