A Qualitative Research of the Perceptions of the 2015 Refugee Crisis among the University of Zadar Students with Personal Experience as Refugees and Exiles

U ovom je završnom radu predstavljeno istraživanje provedeno pomoću kvalitativne metode polustrukturiranog intervjua sa studentima Sveučilišta u Zadru koji su dio života proveli u izbjeglištvu i prognaništvu devedesetih godina na prostoru bivše Jugoslavije. Cilj istraživanja bio je dobiti uvid u mišljenja i percepcije sugovornika o pitanju migrantsko-izbjegličke krize koja se dogodila 2015. godine, u svjetlu njihova osobnog iskustva izbjeglica i prognanika. Svrha rada je bila pridonijeti spoznajama na istraživanu temu i otvoriti mogućnost njihova korištenja pri formuliranju budućih socijalnih politika. Analizom rezultata prethodnih istraživanja pokazano je da postoji određena negativna, ksenofobna i averzivna percepcija u hrvatskom društvu općenito i u dijelu studentske populacije prema svemu stranome (tražitelji azila, migranti, izbjeglice). Rezultati istraživanja koji se prezentiraju u radu pokazuju da iskustvo prognaništva i izbjeglištva bitno mijenja mišljenje u smjeru suprotnom od trenda utvrđenog u prethodno spomenutim studijama.This B.A. thesis presents the research carried out by means of the qualitative method of semi-structured interview with the University of Zadar students who spent a part of their lives as refugees and exiles on the territories of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The goal of the research was to obtain an insight into the opinions and perceptions of the interviewees into the topic of the migrant-refugee crisis of 2015, in the light of their personal experience as refugees and exiles. The aim of the work was to contribute to the insights on the researched topic and to open up the possibility of using these insights when formulating future social policies. The analysis of the results of previous research has shown that there exist a certain negative, xenophobic and aversive perception in Croatian society in general and in the part of the student population of everything foreign (asylum seekers, migrants, refugees). The results of the research presented in this work show that the experience of having been a refugee and exile substantially change opinions in the direction opposite to that established by the previously mentioned studies