Baština (Jan 2011)
The impact of migrations from Kosovo and Metohia on the demographic development in Kraljevo in the period after the Second World War
Abstract
The author states that migrations are one of the oldest and most important social phenomena. Demographic development which followed the termination of the Second World War was accompanied by the sudden increase of the migration of population. The shares of agricultural population are being decreased rapidly, while bigger cities with the striving industry, accepted all surplus of inhabitants of the agrarian overpopulated village in a non-planned manner. The author mentions one of the characteristic examples from that time such as Kraljevo, which rapid demographic increase was influenced by the massive influx of immigrants. In the actual population of Kraljevo, more than half of them to which Kraljevo is not birth place were incorporated. An important part in the immigrants in Kraljevo is made of the ones from Kosovo and Metohia. Differently of the immigrants from other areas, a prevalent motive for migration was of political and security grounds. Intensive migration was accompanied by the increase of population, which characterized that time. The highlight of Kosovo and Metohia's migration influx is happened in the 70-ies and 80-ies of the previous century. At the end of the 90-ies, former migration influx was strengthened by newcomers and persecuted inhabitants from the areas of Kosovo and Metohia. It is about non-Albanian population. From formally-legal grounds this population has got the status of 'temporary displaced persons'. Although their migrations were qualified as temporary ones, unfortunately, a trend of more frequent integration in new milieu had been spotted, that is, giving up of the displaced ones from their plans to come back at their previous habitats.
