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Emigration and Policy in Yugoslavia: Dynamics and Constraints within the Process of Muslim Emigration to Turkey during the 1950s
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Abstract The southern parts of Yugoslavia, especially Macedonia, experienced massive emigration by non-Slavic Muslims in the 1950s after an agreement was concluded between Yugoslavia and Turkey in 1953. The movement raises questions of ethnic belonging and policy towards minorities in socialist Yugoslavia, e... view more
The southern parts of Yugoslavia, especially Macedonia, experienced massive emigration by non-Slavic Muslims in the 1950s after an agreement was concluded between Yugoslavia and Turkey in 1953. The movement raises questions of ethnic belonging and policy towards minorities in socialist Yugoslavia, especially regarding the Albanian population in Kosovo. It also raises questions regarding the entanglement of (migration) policy and emigration and the character of state intervention in an on-going emigration process. Thus, the author’s aim is to analyse the pillars of migration policy, the legal and regulatory framework as well as the extent, causes and consequences of state intervention on emigration processes to Turkey. The author further questions the emigration factors and their ethno-political dimensions, also examining how the mass emigration of Muslims influenced different fields of society in the region of origin as well as the Muslim lifeworld in the region.... view less
Keywords
Yugoslavia; Macedonia; Kosovo; emigration; minority; ethnic group; Muslim; Turkey; minority policy; socialism; migration policy; Albanian; Turk; twentieth century
Classification
General History
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
Sandzak
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 283-313
Journal
European History Quarterly, 48 (2018) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0265691418757391
ISSN
0014-3111
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications