In this article the author analyzes different
village-town migrational characteristics in
Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. She
chose those two examples because she was
interested in comparing a region of
pronounced immigration (Croatia) with
one of emigration (Bosnia and
Herzegovina). Also, these are regions at
different levels of development. The
author supposes that those differences will
have a widespread influence on the
migrant population. The article treats: the
period of village-town migration, the main
reasons for migration, socio-demographic
characteristics of the migrants (sex, age,
education, socio-professional status),
socio-demographic characteristics of the
migrational and non-migrational urban
and rural labour force.
As the intensity of village-town migration
decreases, especially in Croatia, the native
and migrant urban populations grow
increasingly similar in education. An
improvement in the socio-professional
status of later migrants, however, becomes
more difficult, which the author considers
results from the increasingly closed
socialist society in the eighties
