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This is the first report from a research project entitled "Migration and Social Change". The problem discussed in the report concerns the causes and effects of migration from Yugoslavia after World War II. I look upon problems of migration as a process covering sequences in time and space, and as the process that in its internal dynamics connects history with the present events, small countryside community with the European metropols, Dalmatian peasant with the World economy.The report consists of three parts. The first part deals with selected aspects of the intereuropean migration especially with the questions of winners and losers in the flows of migration.The second part deals with the Yugoslavian emigration, its structural causes and its historical background. The focus is on the Reform of 1965, its socio-economic implications and effects.The third part deals with Yugoslavian emigration and its effects on the small countryside community of Vrlika. The local cuiturai-historical heritage and present events mix in a complicated manner in the local area as i.e. when the outside forces are impacting on the traditional modes of living, and in this process new problems and opportunities are developing.

Today, there are some 14* millioh migrant wörkérs in Ëurope. They are people whose position as "gastarbeiter" - with all the complex sociokul» turai problems it implies - stimulates ä lot of scientific research*The following pages are yet another contribution to the literature conoer4 nilig the enormous problems associated with thië ekodùs, The problems I discussed here concern Yugoslav thigrahtâ arid theif experiences in the p£öcess óf social changeiMore than one million Yugoslavs li\e and work in Western Europe« In looking for appropriate methods to explore the complex of social change involving Yugoslav migrants, I have reached the standpoint that an understanding of this process presupposes a knowledge of their cultural heritage. The difficulties in the transformations they have to undergo in the process of social change can only be understood by connecting the "culture of yesterday" with the "conditions of today".Migration research often lacks a dynamic perspective, i.e. it is seldom possible to find systematic studies in this field that include the socio-cultural origin of migrants. Such studies as there are overemphasize information on the present experiences of immigrants in their adopted contries or, which is equally unsatisfactory, they deal with mechanical dichotomies such as "before" and "after" experiences. In both cases, the process of social change is left out.This report is an attempt towards a more complete understanding of the connection between yesterday, today and tomorrow in the life of migrants. The report contains a collection of articles from a research project entitled: "Migration and Social Change". Other reports in the project areiNo 42 Intereuropean Migration (after World War II):Part 1. YugoslaviaPart 2. Emigration and structural change in the local community: VrlikaNo 44 Migration and the process of social change.