ABSTRACT
Although hundreds of thousands of Bosnian Croats have migrated and resettled in Croatia since the early 1990s, little attention has been paid to the issue of how the Bosnian Croats have been incorporated into Croatian society. Several studies have focused on Bosnian refugees in the 1990s (Zlatković-Winter 1992, Mesić 1995, Sujoldžić 1999, 2001), but there are few studies that focus on the postwar migrations of Bosnian Croats to Croatia (see for instance Gregurović 2005).1 Based on these aforementioned studies, we assume that, unlike other migrants in Croatia, and unlike Bosnian refugees who have resettled around the world, Bosnian Croats in Croatia may be seen as ‘co-ethnic migrants’ or ‘ethnically privileged migrants’ (Münz and Ohliger, 1997, Čapo Žmegač 2005). However, it is also assumed that Bosnian Croats in Croatia are defined in two diametrically different ways – as ‘low status, culturally distant co-ethnics’ and as ‘Croats as any other Croats’, which has resulted in a different positioning toward the mainstream society (Gregurović 2005).
