The influence of COVID-19 on international labor migrations from Bosnia and Herzegovina to EU

Ćudić, Bojan (author), Klemenčič, Matjaž (author), Zupančič, Jernej (author)

The article deals with the contemporary labor migrations from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Slovenia and the other countries of European Union, specifically during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the basis of fieldwork among the participants in these migrations, it seeks to identify the specifics of circumstances and situations that arose suddenly with the closure of political borders and the demands of social distancing. In these circumstances, we supposed that labor migrants found themselves to be a particularly vulnerable group of population. The case study has denied that this is completely true. On the other hand, labor migrations from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Central, Western and North European and some non-European countries have been a continuous process for the last century and at least migration flows must be taken as a fact which directions, volumes and character are greatly influenced by labor market regulations in each individual EU member and other states. Periodically, specific political and social situations also gain importance. The COVID-19 pandemic has exactly such an impact.

• Language: English
• Keywords: population geography, migrations, labor migrations, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, EU
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication date: 01.01.2020
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 71-95
• Numbering: [Št.] 53
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-165036
• UDC: 911.3:314.15(497.6:4-6EU)
• ISSN on article: 0354-0596
• DOI: 10.4312/dela.53.71-95
• COBISS.SI-ID: 43746563
• Publication date in RUL: 21.11.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Dela
• Publisher: Oddelek za geografijo Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, Oddelek za geografijo Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 0354-0596
• COBISS.SI-ID: 23805442

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Vpliv COVID-19 na mednarodne delovne migracije iz Bosne in Hercegovine v EU

Abstract

Prispevek obravnava vprašanje sodobnih delovnih migracij iz Bosne in Hercegovine v Slovenijo in druge države Evropske unije, in sicer specifično za čas pandemije COVID-19. Na podlagi terenskega dela med migranti skuša opredeliti posebnosti okoliščin in situacij, ki so nastale nenadno z zapiranjem političnih meja in zahtevami družbenega distanciranja. Predvidevali smo, da so se delovni migranti v teh okoliščinah znašli kot posebej ranljiva skupina prebivalstva. S študijo primera smo dokazali, da to ne drži povsem. Po drugi strani pa so delovne migracije iz Bosne in Hercegovine proti državam Srednje, Zahodne in Severne Evrope kontinuiran proces zadnjega stoletja in je vsaj selitvene tokove treba vzeti kot določeno družbeno konstanto, na katere smer, številčnost in značaj v veliki meri vplivajo ureditve trga dela v posameznih članicah EU, obdobno pa dobijo prevladujoč vpliv tudi specifične družbene razmere. Tak vpliv predstavlja tudi pandemija COVID-19.

• Keywords: demogeografija, migracije, delovne migracije, pandemije, COVID-19, Evropska unija, Bosna in Hercegovina, Slovenija