The Dynamics of Bosnian Refugee Migrations in the 1990s, Current Migration Trends and Future Prospects

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ID12333322
AuthorsM Valenta (0000-0002-3332-4840, corresponding author), Zan Strabac (0000-0002-1293-1449)
Year2013
Volume32
Issue3
Pages1-22
Publication date2013-07-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRefugee Survey Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1020-4067 • E-ISSN: 1471-695X
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/rsq/hdt013
OpenAlexW2124461755
LanguageEN
Citations received18

More than two million people have had to leave their original homes, and more than one million people have left Bosnia-Herzegovina altogether, as a result of the war in that country. Although large groups of refugees returned to the country in the late 1990s, the majority of refugees have resettled permanently in the receiving countries. In addition, tens of thousands of Bosnians migrated after the Dayton Peace Agreement was signed. Yet refugee migrations do not dominate present migration flows from Bosnia-Herzegovina. Current migrations are diversified comprising transnational practices and various forms of economic migration. In this article, we analyse the dynamics of migration flows from Bosnia-Herzegovina and return migrations from the 1990s to the present day. In addition, we discuss prospects for future migrations and identify some emerging new categories of Bosnian migrants and transnationals that were not identified in the previous studies. A review of relevant public documents, research, and basic statistics is used in an attempt to illustrate how the dynamics of migrations interplay with the actions of migrants and with different aspects of refugee and migration policies within host countries

Bosnian · Demographic economics · Development economics · Dynamics (music · Economic geography · Economics · Forced migration · Geography · Human migration · Irregular migration · Migration studies · Political science · Population · Refugee · Sociology · Belt and Road Initiative · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Demography · Gender Studies · Law

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