Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 63 No. 3-4, 1993.
Original scientific paper
Milan Mesić
; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In the first part, the author points out that the imperial politics have been using forcible migrations, through the history of mankind. Numerous non voluntary migrations in the twentieth century have soon become one of the central problems of the international community. Basically, Mesić follows establishing and determination of the mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, confronted to contemporary world refugee movements.
The second part of the review presents the summary of the author's typology of the Croatian exiles and refugees, based on large empirical research. For the »inland refugees« he uses the term exiles, while displaced persons are only one of its categories. The author devides exiles in six categories: »pre refugees«, pseudo refugees, exorbitant refugees, refugees before war destruction and occupation, displaced persons and detainees-refugees. The research further shows that these »touchy, irritable and angry people« react differently to the tragic situation they found themselves in. Three types of reaction are sorted: resignation, realism and dissatisfaction.
The last part of the work is based on the results of the questionnaire containing numerous questions on the return, which was carried out among 726 displaced and refugees in Croatia. It showed that orientation to the return, besides general safety and political conditions, depended on some socio-professional characteristics of the questioned as well. Well educated people do not consider the possibility of return as much as less educated people. As it seems, answers about the return were also influenced by the regional origin and the nationality of the questioned.
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35656
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Publication date:
18.4.1994.
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