Return of Labour Migrants to Serbia: Realistic Expectations or Wishful Thinking?
Serbia has traditionally been a country with a high emigration rate. Numerous administrative obstacles and slow economic reforms have discouraged migrants from returning and making business investments. Over the last few years there has been a noticeable effort to provide concrete assistance, introd...
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| description | Serbia has traditionally been a country with a high emigration rate. Numerous administrative obstacles and slow economic reforms have discouraged migrants from returning and making business investments. Over the last few years there has been a noticeable effort to provide concrete assistance, introduce benefits and reliefs and stimulate return migrations, particularly of entrepreneurs and highly educated persons, by means of different strategies, legal acts, and the establishment of government agencies and non-governmental organizations.
Our decade-long research on migrations has primarily focused on the so-called Gastarbeiter, as well as their descendants. We have conducted research on migrants from North-eastern Serbia, which is one of the biggest emigration zones in the country, and field research was also conducted in Vienna, the city with the most numerous Serbian diaspora in Europe, a specific population which, due to the geographic proximity between Serbia and Austria, often engages in cross-border movement and is transnationally active. As regards the studied population, return migrations to Serbia and economic investment in the country’s development are unlikely and certainly insufficient. In this paper, we will look at the classification of returnees as at their motives for a possible return, but also at the numerous reasons for staying in the host country.
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| spelling | doaj.art-d69a4877511d46e784f7ee216957c0cd2023-04-19T16:30:29ZengUniversity of BelgradeEtnoantropološki Problemi0353-15892334-88012022-12-0117410.21301/eap.v17i4.6Return of Labour Migrants to Serbia: Realistic Expectations or Wishful Thinking?Dragana Antonijević0Miloš Rašić1Department of Ethnology and Anthropology Faculty of Philosophy, University of BelgradeThe Institute of Ethnography SASA, BelgradeSerbia has traditionally been a country with a high emigration rate. Numerous administrative obstacles and slow economic reforms have discouraged migrants from returning and making business investments. Over the last few years there has been a noticeable effort to provide concrete assistance, introduce benefits and reliefs and stimulate return migrations, particularly of entrepreneurs and highly educated persons, by means of different strategies, legal acts, and the establishment of government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Our decade-long research on migrations has primarily focused on the so-called Gastarbeiter, as well as their descendants. We have conducted research on migrants from North-eastern Serbia, which is one of the biggest emigration zones in the country, and field research was also conducted in Vienna, the city with the most numerous Serbian diaspora in Europe, a specific population which, due to the geographic proximity between Serbia and Austria, often engages in cross-border movement and is transnationally active. As regards the studied population, return migrations to Serbia and economic investment in the country’s development are unlikely and certainly insufficient. In this paper, we will look at the classification of returnees as at their motives for a possible return, but also at the numerous reasons for staying in the host country. https://www.eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/1126return migrationsguest worker (Gastarbeiter)classification of returneestransnational activitynorth-eastern SerbiaVienna |
| spellingShingle | Dragana Antonijević Miloš Rašić Return of Labour Migrants to Serbia: Realistic Expectations or Wishful Thinking? Etnoantropološki Problemi return migrations guest worker (Gastarbeiter) classification of returnees transnational activity north-eastern Serbia Vienna |
| title | Return of Labour Migrants to Serbia: Realistic Expectations or Wishful Thinking? |
| title_full | Return of Labour Migrants to Serbia: Realistic Expectations or Wishful Thinking? |
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| title_short | Return of Labour Migrants to Serbia: Realistic Expectations or Wishful Thinking? |
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| topic | return migrations guest worker (Gastarbeiter) classification of returnees transnational activity north-eastern Serbia Vienna |
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