期刊名称：Drustvena istrazivanja. Journal for General Social Issues
印刷版ISSN：1330-0288
出版年度：1998
卷号：7
期号：1-2 (33-34)
页码：127-146
出版社：Institute of Social Sciences IVO PILAR
摘要：The migration of the Croats to America forms a substantial part of the European migration process towards the new continent. Massive and continuous emigration of the Croat people deserves a special explanation of its traits linking it with the general flow of other Europeans who also emigrated, together with a specification regarding Croatian emigrants and their migration from Croatia. Firstly, it is necessary to define what is meant by ’emigrant’ and ’immigrant’ before applying this to the experiences of the Croats and Croatia. Emigration has numerous consequences both for the country of emigration and the country of immigration. For the most part, relationships are formed because of immigration. This relates particularly to questions of status where emigrants and immigrants are concerned. The economic, social, and political consequences of emigration and immigration directly influence the defining of emigration policy among the countries involved. Croatia, as in other European countries, has regulated the question of status where its emigrants are concerned through its legislature, and has also defined the notion of ’emigrant’. This was first accomplished at the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as well as later during the time of former Yugoslavia. The Croatian community was greatly involved due to the emigration of hundreds of thousands of its citizens to various regions of the world. Croat politicians, men of science, and civic leaders occupied themselves greatly with the emigration question as an important national problem. One particular difficulty in solving numerous emigration problems was caused by the fact that Croats, in past years, did not have their own nation.
