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RETURNING EMIGRANTS AS A POTENTIAL FACTOR FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA

Recently, an increasing number of Croats, and members of all generations, left Croatia. Croatia is experiencing strong negative demographic trends. If negative trends continue, Croatia will remain without Croatian people and without their national values. Due to the negative demographic trends in recent years, Croatia has started to work more on migration policy, especially on immigration policy. By encouraging immigration, Croatia can solve two key issues: repair a bad demographic image and start up the economy. What should be avoided is that Croatia does not became a new homeland for poor and unskilled labor from various parts of the world - in particular refugee migrants. For this reason, the most likely potential immigrants to Croatia could be Croatian emigrants. According to various research, outside Croatia there are about 3 million emigrants and their descendants. In order to survive in a new country, emigrants have fought each other and established numerous cultural and social communities. These communities, institutions, and societies played an important part in their social and political life. A large number has achieved enviable results in the business world, sports and so on. Some of them have shown a good will to invest their experience, knowledge and capital in Croatia. Returning emigrants would be a great potential for Croatia's progress - particularly economic. The aim of this paper is to show the attitudes of emigrants who returned to the Republic of Croatia after migration. The aim is to analyses returning emigrants, their motivations, expectations and problems they encountered after returning. In this study is included a survey conducted on a representative sample of respondents, i.e. adults who left the Republic of Croatia after the Civil War, from 1996 until 2016. The survey results should show the main difficulties that returning emigrants face.

Emigration, Returning emigrants, Croatia, Migration

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