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New international borders – old social spaces: Transnational migrant networks across the boundaries of post-socialist Croatia

The dissolution of Yugoslavia resulted in the emergence of new national containers, new international borders, pervasive politics of belonging and the political exclusion of a significant part of the population. New state-building and new citizenhips made prewar migration within the Republics of former Yugoslavia socially and politically "visible" by producing new "aliens" and "international" migrant groups. Due to methodological nationalism, the social sciences neglected the social ties and networks between migrants in their countries of immigration and across former Yugoslavia in general, while a new transnational turn in migration research in the West produced an approach which overlooks migrant social spaces across and especially within internal borders before the emergence of new nation-states. Therefore the aim of this paper is to discuss a neglected social phenomenon – the development of the transnational social spaces of migrants across Central and Southeast Europe, using the example of migrant social ties beyond Croatian borders. We represent the emergence of migrant pluri-local social spaces and later transnational social spaces across Croatian borders and discuss processes which enabled their formation and expansion.

Transnational social spaces · Croatia · Former Yugoslavia · Migrant networks

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