A Life Dilemma of Young People in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Leave or Stay?
A Life Dilemma of Young People in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Leave or Stay?

Summary/Abstract: There is a stereotype about the life of young people in Southeast Europe and in many respects it is correct: Young people are most affected by unemployment (in BiH 67 % of adolescents are jobless). We are excluded from political and social life, and our education system is chaotic and offers no perspective for the future. The priority of 77 % of the young people in BiH is to leave the country and go to EU member states, the USA or elsewhere in search for a better life and higher quality education. The alternative to leaving is staying in Bosnia and Herzegovina / BiH and creating an efficient youth organization that can achieve new goals, unity and a youth leadership – redefining the model of society so that the needs of young people and their potential are taken into account. In fact, this is the key aspect of survival of this society which is, through migrations and other factors, gradually getting older and less educated. However, only through concrete actions and radical requests from the establishment can young people achieve better positions and a clearer perspective of their future in BiH. Putting the entire young population in the process of change could open up new possibilities in BiH. The students would be particularly important here since they can provide a critical mass for pressure on the government by forcing it to change its underestimating and ignorant attitude towards the young. This though will require the support of intellectual and political elites in Europe which is already expressed towards the talented young people who decide to leave BiH and migrate abroad.

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