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The comparison of attributes of migration and non- migration families.

Global social processes, unemployment and problems connected to recent war experiences in our region, caused the family migrations in Croatia. Family mobility is often connected with adaptation problems of family members on new environmental conditions. This fact is accompanied by changes in family functioning (Poldrugač, 1990). The migrant families are exposed to different risk factors by moving to new environment (Majdak, 2006). Migrant family adaptation depends on personal feature of parents and children, migration’ s circumstances and characteristics of new society. Negative circumstances associated with migration (bad material life conditions, maladjustment to costumers and norms of new environment, feeling of unacceptance, etc.) significantly increase the risk of behavior disorder of children and youth (Majdak, 2006) and could have an impact on the quality of marital and parental relationships. This paper presents the research results on the sample of 564 students at the University in Zagreb, about the circumstances of their growth. The paper shows social-demographic attributes and quality of family relationships in families with experience of moving to new environment and those who did not. The purpose of paper was to stimulate the discussion about different conditions of the children’ s growth in migrant and non-migrant families, and possibilities for overcome present differences.

family; migration; adaptation

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