ABSTRACT
Contemporary international migration in Europe is characterized by the general desire of all participants in migration for migrant-workers to be only temporarily employed outside their country of origin. Migration from Yugoslavia, unlike that from other Mediterranean countries, is strong in the developed western part of the country. Emigration from the areas united after World War I to form the Yugoslav community of peoples to overseas countries proceeded continually from the mid-nineteenth century until World War II. When, from the second half of the nineteenth century, the Slav portion of the Pannonian plain gradually took over the role of a transport and economic junction for south-eastern Europe, it became even more attractive for migrational movements from the south. The causes of regional differences in the rate of external migration should be sought in the various trends in individual parts of the Yugoslav labor market.
