External Migrations of Slovenia after the Second World War

Abstract

There are nearly no statistical data that could be used in order to analyse the external migrations of Slovenia in the period 1945—1953 as political migrations prevailed. However, there are quite some statistical data available for the years 1954—1989; migrations being in the first place the result of economic factors. Slovene external migrations can be divided into interrepublican and foreign ones, and both into permanent and temporary. Slovenia has become in the first half of the Sixties an immigrational country from the traditional emigrational one. Mostly qualified industrial workers emigrated abroad, whereas mostly unqualified workers from the agrarian parts of the rest of Yugoslavia immigrated.