The Reluctant Asylum-Seekers: Migrants at the Southeastern Frontiers of the European Migration System: Figure 1.

Valenta, Marko; Župarić-Iljić, Drago; Vidovic, Tea

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“…However, a significant number of asylum seekers leave the country before the first-instance decision (on granting or refusing them refugee status) (Barberić, 2015). This has led to the conclusion that, in the context of an underdeveloped system of integration policies and measures and worsening of economic conditions, Croatia has remained a transit territory for asylum seekers and irregular migrants on their way to Western Europe (Baričević, 2013;Kuti, 2014;Valenta, Zuparic-Iljic and Vidovic, 2015). From mid-September till mid-December 2015, half a million refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan together with forced migrants from other countries have passed through Croatia, on their way to Germany -the most preferred destination country.…”

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Attitudes towards Immigrant Workers and Asylum Seekers in Eastern Croatia: Dimensions, Determinants and Differences

Gregurović

Kuti

Župarić-Iljić

2016

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SUMMARYCroatia's accession to the EU has brought new challenges and issues in researching and analysing migration flows and trends as well as attitudes and perceptions of real and potential newcomers. The aim of this paper is to explore attitudes of the residents of the two most easterly Croatian counties towards two distinct categories of newcomers: immigrant workers and asylum seekers. The research was conducted shortly after Croatia's entry into the EU, in September 2013, and the presented data are a part of a larger survey that included various migration and ethnicity issues. The survey was applied on a convenience sample of 1 110 adult respondents in two counties: Osijek-Baranja and Vukovar-Srijem. Data were analysed in a series of multivariate procedures. Results indicated significant perceptions of immigrant workers within the dimension of cultural threat, along with the expression of a considerable degree of social distance towards them. Asylum seekers were further perceived as a security and economic threat. Within two analysed regression models, the effects on attitudes towards immigrant workers and asylum seekers were similar. Among the spectrum of socio-demographic variables, a statistically significant effect on both dependent variables came from age and political orientation, indicating that older and politically right-oriented respondents expressed more negative attitudes towards both groups. Among other socio-demographic variables, education was significant in predicting attitudes towards immigrant workers, while ethnicity was significant in predicting the attitudes towards asylum seekers. The second model analysed the effect of selected political attitudes and value orientations resulting in significant prediction of negative attitudes towards both groups by pronounced conservativism, support of aggression and submission, social-dominance, dominant submisMigracijske i etničke teme 32 (2016), 1: 91-122 92 sive authoritarianism and social alienation, rejecting socially oriented values and expressing greater interest in politics. Differences in prediction of dependent variables indicated that more liberal and better educated respondents had more positive attitudes towards immigrant workers, while Serbs (in comparison to Croats) and respondents rejecting anti-EU orientations had a more positive perception of asylum seekers. The results were compared to other relevant research, including the discussion of observed differences and similarities, and recommendations for further research.

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Attitudes towards Immigrant Workers and Asylum Seekers in Eastern Croatia: Dimensions, Determinants and Differences

Gregurović

Kuti

Župarić-Iljić

2016

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“…The EURODAC system includes a Europe-wide fingerprinting database for unauthorised entrants to the EU. in ethnographic and geographic research (Bloch, Sigona, and Zetter 2011;Valenta, Zuparic-Iljic, and Vidovic 2015).…”

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“…Schuster (2005) documents the high mobility of migrants from Italy to other European countries, attributing this behaviour to the increasing likelihood of asylum claims being rejected. Valenta, Zuparic-Iljic, and Vidovic (2015) conducted qualitative interviews with asylum seekers in Croatia. They find that most people end up as reluctant asylum seekers in Croatia because they were channelled there by smugglers and apprehended by the police.…”

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From hell to heaven? Evidence of migration trajectories from an Italian refugee centre

Stranges¹,

Wolff²

2018

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BACKGROUNDIn recent years, large numbers of migrants have attempted to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Italy plays a central role as a receiving country, particularly because of its relative proximity to the coast of North Africa. OBJECTIVEThis paper investigates the trajectories of migrants from their entry into a refugee centre to their departure, with evidence on the timing of the departure decision. METHODSUsing 2008-2014 data from a reception centre for refugees and asylum seekers located in Calabria (Italy), we use survival analysis tools to explore the timing and reasons for departure from the centre. RESULTSWe find large variation in migrant inflows, with peaks associated with political crises and wars in certain countries. There are substantial differences in outflows between groups of countries, in both the timing and reasons for departure. CONCLUSIONSOur results provide a better understanding of migrants' trajectories from a reception centre in Italy. They show that a huge number of migrants leave the centre voluntarily. CONTRIBUTIONOverall, our study contributes to knowledge of displaced migrants, providing detailed empirical evidence on migrants' trajectories.

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“…Their bodies on the screen said everythin . There are very few occasions when refu ees are approached as active individuals, as people doing somethin , and even more infrequently as people saying somethin , as Marko Valenta, Dra o Župarić-Iljić and Tea Vidović (2015) caution in their paper on asylum seekers in Croatia, their experiences, wishes and plans for the future. On the contrary, moments when they are bein represented as people to whom somethin is happening come in abundance.…”

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“Us and Them” – Approaching the Refugee Other? Cultural Anthropological Rethinking of the Fieldwork Experience in Slavonia

Grubiša¹

2017

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In this paper the author rethinks her experience of volunteerin and interaction with refu ees at border crossin s, as well as in temporary accommodation centers, in Slavonia. The paper is mainly based on the author's experience of participant observation conducted on several occasions between September and December of 2015, while volunteerin for the Welcome Initiative. The author draws attention to the problems with two of the most common discourses on refu ee crisis, securitization on the one hand, and humanitarianism on the other, which althou h seemin ly diametrically opposed, share the very same startin point of refu ees as radical Others. Furthermore, the last part of the paper deals with the question of power inscribed into the spaces of temporary accommodation of refu ees. Here, the author ar ues that the spatial and functional or anization of the temporary accommodation centers was not a coincidence, but was rather deliberately desi ned so that the power relations of those who mana ed and monitored over the centers, and those who temporarily stayed in them, remained clear at any time.

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The Reluctant Asylum-Seekers: Migrants at the Southeastern Frontiers of the European Migration System: Figure 1.

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Attitudes towards Immigrant Workers and Asylum Seekers in Eastern Croatia: Dimensions, Determinants and Differences

Attitudes towards Immigrant Workers and Asylum Seekers in Eastern Croatia: Dimensions, Determinants and Differences

From hell to heaven? Evidence of migration trajectories from an Italian refugee centre

“Us and Them” – Approaching the Refugee Other? Cultural Anthropological Rethinking of the Fieldwork Experience in Slavonia

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