Slavković Mirić, Božica (2020) А contribution to the research of emigration from Kosovo and Metohija between the two world wars. Journal of European and Balkan Perspective, 3 (1). pp. 69-80. ISSN 2545-4854

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Abstract

Our research of emigration from Kosovo and Metohija in the period between the two worlds was done on the basis of archival sources, professional literature and the press. The analysis of interstate relations and the number of emigrants are the topics of our paper, which we tried to look at. The issue of emigration of the Muslim population from Kosovo and Metohija was related to the political and economic situation in this area. The Yugoslav state tried to solve the national question in the south by emigrating the Muslim population, primarily to Turkey and Albania. Various privileges were given for these purposes. Turkey was interested in this settlement because it wanted to settle its deserted areas from which the Kurds were evicted. The Yugoslav-Turkish Convention on Emigration was signed in 1938, but negotiations were stopped because there was no financial agreement. The emigration process stopped due to the death of President Kemal Ataturk and the outbreak of World War II. Analyzing the statistics we were researching, we came to the conclusion that the number of emigrants was twenty thousand within one year, which showed that this phenomenon was not massive.

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