UZROCI PROGONSTVA I OBILJEŽJA HRVATSKIH PROGNANIKA U KONTEKSTU IZBJEGLIČKOG PROBLEMA U SVIJETU
THE CAUSES OF EXILE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF CROATIAN DISPLACED PERSONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WORLD REFUGEE ISSUE

Summary/Abstract: Inspite of the fact that war and armed conflicts are mostly the cause of an immense number of refugees throughout the world, the international community uses legal definitions of the refugee status based on the concept of individual persecution, which do not include this form of exile. International organizations have refrained from defining the cause due to which people are forced to leave their homes, because they wanted to act as non-political, strictly humanitarian factors. More recent considerations of the refugee issue worldwide indicate that dealing with this problem from a purely humanitarian viewpoint is inadequate, because it neglects the basic question of war and peace, Le. conditions which give rise to a mass exodus of people. Authors analyze the basic socio-demographic characteristics of the refugee population in Croatia. An analysis is proposed, according to the most relevant characteristics, which could help organize aid and the return of refugees to their abandoned homes with more success.

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