Past and current trends of Balkan migrations

This paper will seek to provide a general overview of developments in international migrations in the Balkans as from the end of World War II. This survey will regard the Balkan countries that have experienced "real socialism", and where, for obvious reasons, the most radical and interesting changes and innovations have occurred. The purpose is above all to highlight the internal differences in the Balkans and those between the Balkan countries and the rest of the continent, also taking into due account the recent context characteristics briefly examined in the last section of this paper.