These changes of migration trends along with the anticipated immigration surplus require the adjusting of Croatian migration policies to EU standards. Neighboring Central East European and South East European countries recorded similar migration trends after they joined the EU.
Homeland war (1991-1995) introduced new types of migrants in the area such as refugees or displaced population while recent processes of the EU accession open up space for labour immigration to Croatia and broader circular, transit and illegal migrations. Such a development will presumably include a reduction in emigration flows and gradual increase in immigration and transit flows after Croatia’s accession to the EU. Traditionally a country of high emigration, with labour and political emigrants to overseas and western European countries, Croatia is expected to experience considerable changes in migration trends. Simultaneously – aside from the limited use of the ideas of Stephane Dufoix, Danièle Joly and Aristide Zolberg – the employed concepts have not contributed in any significant way to determining why certain immigrants became involved in political activity, while the vast majority of others did not. Generally, taking an ecumenical approach to migration theory certainly helped to identify a number of important topics related to the process of migration (from the decision to adaptation strategies), and also to understand the limitations of the official qualification of Polish migration during this time and the policy of each country involved in the process. Clearly missing is the meso level: the description of the political emigration of the 1980s as a holistic phenomenon considered in all its specificity and diversity. In all, the current state of research on the Solidarity emigration and its initiatives offers a very general socio-demographic approach, very detailed case-studies, or only a brief and postulative reflection on the subject in question. The article also reviews the existing scholarship and tries to re-define the main areas of potential reaserch. The aim of this article is to reflect on the difficulties of analysing a specific wave of Polish migration during the 1980s, which cannot be easily categorized as either a political or an economic.
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