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Immigration, integration and the attitudes of Croatian citizens towards immigrants

The presentation proceeds from the understanding of integration as a two-way process in which immigrants and the receiving society are equal acotrs. It is important to know how the members of the potential receiving society view the possibility of transforming their society into an immigration society. The structure of this work is based upon the results of the survey conducted in 2009, on a random and representative sample of Croatian adult citizens (N = 1300). Examined are the attitudes of Croatian citizens towards migrant workers, their possible entrance on the local labour market and their potential influence upon the culture and values of the Croatian society. With the application of factor analysis under the component model using GK criterion for stopping factor extraction, two latent dimensions have been extracted: socio-cultural exclusion and the perception of immigration as an economic threat. On both these latent dimensions statistically significant differences have been found for most of the socio-demographic characteristics.

immigration; integration; receiving society; migration; social distance; Croatia

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