Original scientific paper

The Demographic and Migration Framework of Primary Education in Vukovar: Trends, Situation and Perspectives

Dražen Živić ; Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar — Područni centar Vukovar, Vukovar

Abstract

This study on the natural and mechanical population movements and demographic-migration determinants of elementary education in Vukovar identifies contemporary trends, current situation and perspectives in bioreproduction and migration, using descriptive and comparative analysis, in relation to the numerical situation of the children in the Vukovar elementary schools. This analysis, based on official census data, together with vital and migration statistics, has demonstrated that the trends in the bioreproduction and migration in the gravitational zone of the Vukovar primary schools, City of Vukovar and Municipality of Bogdanovci, during the past twenty years, 1997‒2018, are highly unfavorable, and that the processes of overall depopulation, natural decline and mechanical loss, owing to the negative migration balance, have created an increasingly poor demographic framework for the student potential of Vukovar primary schools, with an even more unfavorable outlook in the future. The needed stabilization and improvement of the demographic situation are only possible with the long-term and comprehensive implementation of pro-natal, immigration and redistribution incentives in population, family and economic policies, which would entail the comprehensive demographic revitalization of Croatia and each of its parts.

Keywords

City of Vukovar; Municipality of Bogdanovci; natural population movements; migration; depopulation; primary school

Hrčak ID:

238241

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/238241

Publication date:

1.11.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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