Preliminary communication

Migration, Forced Migration, Refugees: Towards Conceptualization

Silva Mežnarić ; Institute for Migration and Nationalities, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Sociological studies of refugees and migratory movements more often than not confound two otherwise very different "facts of life" and explanatory schemes: those of migration and refugee flows. Starting form the viewpoint that a "migrant" has a choice to move (or not to move) while a "refugee" or "displacee" has none, the author argues that such incipiently different processes and life horizons should be kept apart further on in modelling and conceptualizing sociological research. She also introduces generic human rights scheme as a fertile approach for further differentiation between migrants and refugees.

Keywords

refugees; displacement; human rights; conceptualization; population; migration

Hrčak ID:

154612

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/154612

Publication date:

30.6.1995.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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