State security service of the Republic secretariat for internal affairs of the Socialist Republic of Croatia’s data on emigrants

Among other things, the State Security Service monitored emigrants’ activities worldwide. The archival unit stored in the CSA, entitled Code 1: Yugoslav Extreme Emigration, Yugoslav Emigration, and Workers Abroad Acting Hostilely, contains numerous documents, analyses, lists, and data on political and economic emigrants considered hostile to Yugoslavia. About 65.000 dossiers of individual emigrants are kept in a separate unit. Although the vast majority of those monitored were men, there is a number of women whose activities in migration is documented in the records.

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Original source name : Dokumenti o emigrantima Službe državne sigurnosti Republičkog sekretarijata za unutrašnje poslove Socijalističke Republike Hrvatske
English translation : State security service of the Republic secretariat for internal affairs of the Socialist Republic of Croatia's data on emigrants
Creator : public service
Document- type 1 : immigration papers
Document- type 2 : reports
Reference number : HR-HDA-1561. Služba državne sigurnosti Republičkog sekretarijata za unutrašnje poslove Socijalističke Republike Hrvatske, Šifra 1: Jugoslavenska ekstremna emigracija, jugoslavenska emigracija i lica na radu u inozemstvu koja djeluju neprijateljski
Language(s) : Croatian, Serbian, English, German
Geographical coverage : Europe, North and South America, Australia
Time range : 20thc.
Year(s) : 1945-1990
Theme 1 : exile
Theme 2 : legal

Archive name : Hrvatski državni arhiv
Archive name (English) : Croatian State Archives
Archive address : Trg Marka Marulića 21, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
City : Zagreb
Country : Croatia
Official website and institutional resources : http://www.arhiv.hr/en-gb/

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