Naslov
Ethnicity, migration and social distance in the transitional Croatian society

Autori
Čačić-Kumpes, Jadranka ; Gregurović, Margareta ; Kumpes, Josip

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
11th International Conference “Migration and Culture”

Mjesto i datum
Klagenfurt, Austrija, 16.06.2011. - 18.06.2011

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
ethnicity; migration; social distance scale; ethnic minorities; foreign workers; Croatia

Sažetak
The revival of ethnic theory during the 1970s has brought forth a number of terms that are used equally fluidly as the term ethnicity. The authors are trying, on the base of the research on social (ethnic) distance conducted in 2009 on the representative sample of Croatian adult population, to establish the operationalisation possibilities of some of them (e.g. ethnification and ethnicisation) in the analyses of changes in the ethnic relations within Croatian society, which appeared during the creation of national state in the 1990s. These changes accompany the transitional period and they can possibly be expected owing to a slow, but predictable transformation of Croatia from the emigration and transit into an immigration country. In the introductory part of the paper the authors attempt to define the terms starting from the current literature in this subject field. After that they give a brief socio-historic context in which the changes of ethnic relations occurred (from ethnic mobilization, ethnic conflict and creating of a national state through the problems of recession and the European integration processes). In the central part of the paper results of the research on social distance towards members of different ethnic groups and “foreign workers” in Croatia (the latter were treated as a separate group) are presented. A high level of social distance, especially towards members of certain ethnic groups, can be explained by the processes of ethnic mobilization related to the ethnic conflict, i.e. as the consequence of the society’s ethnification process. A high level of social distance towards foreign workers is expectedly higher in certain socio-demographic groups (e.g. in the respondents with lower social status and lower education) which can, due to past and expected social changes, affect the future ethnicisation of society. The authors consider that the respondents’ level of education and socio-economic status are predictors of processes which are possible to be transformed in the same way as they were possible to be initiated.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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