Republika Irska kao slavonska „obećana zemlja“: društvenojezični i gospodarstveni čimbenici
Republic of Ireland as a Slavonian “Promised Land“: Sociolinguistic and Economic Factors

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with a textological analysis of statements of Croats who have emigrated or soon intend to emigrate to the Republic of Ireland, and with the sociolinguistic and economic factors that have influenced or still influence this decision of theirs. Special attention is devoted to their knowledge of the English language as one of the essential conditions of a easier adaptation and employability in a foreign country in general and as a motivation to emigrate to this country exactly. For the sake of this paper, a research has also been conducted among the citizens of the Republic of Croatia in order to consider the relevant implications of an increasingly intensified Croatian emigration, with an emphasis laid on the Slavonian population. Therefore, the hypothesis is that most Croatian emigrants leave their homeland in search for permanent employment, i.e. economic security, which implies that an individual is at the moment readier to make a labour sacrifice in a Western European country rather than in their homeland.

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