The municipality of Zemun is Belgrade municipality with highest number of war-endangered persons. Refugee status or status of internally displaced persons still have over 8,000 inhabitants of this municipality. Intensive influx of forced migrants in last decade of XX and at the beginning of XXI century, has led to demographic and physiognomic changes that were analysed in this work. It has past more than 20 years since the settlement of first forced migrants, building now settlements and expending existing ones, and many problems of this endangered community are resolving slowly or not resolving at all. Among the major problems are unsolved status issues of refugees and intermediate displaced persons, incomplete integration, expansion of unplanned and infrastructural unregulated settlements.
This paper represents the research of Banija as a problematic region. In comparison to the other parts of the Croatia, Banija historically has been underdeveloped region. However, the dissolution of SFR Yugoslavia and the conflict that followed strongly disrupted the former course of development. The paper mainly deals with researching demographic and economic (agriculture and industry) characteristics and problems because they are the most pronounced and represent the real socioeconomic status and essence of the problematic status of the region. There are many comparisons of parameter values from the beginning of the 21 st century to values from 1991 because of significant differences best show the intensity of Banija regression during a short period of time.
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