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The Smoke Screen of Prof. Baučić’s “Science of Migration”
Milan Mesić
; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This is a comparatively lengthy review of research which was conducted during the New Year holiday in 1963–84. The research involved a big sample of Yugoslav workers. It was conducted by Prof. dr Ivo Baučić, one of the leading Yugoslav experts and researchers of contemporary external labour migration, who also authored the Final report of the study.
The reviewer's account of the “results” of the study and of the interpretation presented in the Report is highly critical: the theoretical and methodological framework of the study, whose (professed) goal was to provide answers to some topical questions concerning Yugoslav citizens working abroad, is disputed. Some remarks are made in principle, along with many concrete remarks of a theoretical, methodological and logical nature which either completely negate or seriously undermine the validity of the results obtained.
Keywords
labour migrants; external migration; Yugoslavia
Hrčak ID:
128920
URI
Publication date:
30.9.1985.
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