Preliminary communication
VIEWS OF RETURN - CROATIAN AND BOSNIAN-HERZEGOVIAN REFUGEES
Milan Mesić
; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb
Abstract
The article reports on the partial results of the international sociological
project "Prospects of Return and Reintegration of Croatian and
Bosnian-Herzegovian Refugees". The research was carried out in
Croatia, Hungary and Germany on a sample of 1248 adult respondents.
A battery of questions relating to return is being analysed here.
lt has established that an orientation to return (which includes expectation,
personal plans and wishes) depends, more or less, on certain
social and other characteristics of people in refuge. Tipically to return
more oriented are (whether refugees or displacees) older people, those
from the countryside, peasants, type of war refugees, now in an
organized form of accomodation. Croatian displaced persons more
believe in return, more count on and wish it (as an ideal solution for
their future) than refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina. Croatian refugees
in that respect seem to be more closer to the last ones than to
Croatian displacees. Among Bosnian-Herzegovian refugees Muslim-
-Bosniaks are more oriented towards return, while Croats incline to
see their future somewhere else.
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Hrčak ID:
32885
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Publication date:
1.11.1994.
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