TYPES OF REFUGEES - CROATIAN AND BOSNIAN-HERZEGOVINIAN EXPERIENCES
TYPES OF REFUGEES - CROATIAN AND BOSNIAN-HERZEGOVINIAN EXPERIENCES

Summary/Abstract: Some researchers have warn ed that in the field of refugee study and research the dichotomic categorization "refugees vs. non-refugees", used in legal and administrative procedures, is not considered satisfactory in sociological analysis. The author of this article has come to the same conclusion in his research about the prospects of return of Croatian displaced persons and refugees, as well as Bosnian-Herzegovinian refugees. The first series of inquiries was conducted at-the height of the refugee crisis, at the beginning of 1992. We surveyed 726 examinees, Croatian dispIacees in Croatia and Croatian refugees in Germany and some one hundred interviews about the reasons of fleeing were recorded. Another one hundred interviews were recorded on cassettes during a more recent survey of Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian refugees, conducted from the summer of 1993 to the spring of 1994 in Croatia, Hungary and Germany. At the same time, 1247 respondents from both groups of refugees answered questionnaires.

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