Forms and Characteristics of Croatian Emigration in the Period from 1945 to 1990

Glavni problem rada su uzroci, oblici i karakteristike hrvatske emigracije, kao i njezino statističko praćenje u kontekstu Hladnog rata. Postavlja se pitanje koji su oblici i karakteristike hrvatske emigracije nakon Drugog svjetskog rata, u razdoblju od 1945-1990. godine? Cilj ovog rada je prikazati kako je došlo do ove pojave, odnosno koji su bili njezini uzroci, zašto je nakon Drugog svjetskog rata došlo do njezinog povećanja, ali i do povećanja šezdesetih godina kada je Socijalistička Federativna Republika Jugoslavija liberalizirala politiku iseljavanja.The main problem of the paper is the causes, forms, and characteristics of Croatian emigration, as well as its statistical monitoring in the context of the Cold War. The question is what are the forms and characteristics of Croatian emigration after the Second World War, in the period between 1945-1990? The aim of this paper is to show how this phenomenon occurred, and what were its causes, why it increased after the Second World War but also increased in the 1960s when the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia liberalized the emigration policy