Immigration to Serbia explained

Immigration to Serbia is the entry of people for permanent residence in the Republic of Serbia. Based on the United Nations report Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2013 Revision, Serbia had an immigrant population of 532,457 (5.6%).^[1]

Most immigrants in the country are from elsewhere in the former Yugoslavia.^[2] Many Bosnian and Croatian Serbs came to Serbia as refugees during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. Serbia is also home to smaller numbers of immigrants from various other countries. Regarding the European migrant crisis, Serbia is part of the major transit route in the Balkans.

Notable people

• Arkady Vyatchanin (born 1984), swimmer, from Russia
• Amjad Migati (born 1951), politician, from Jordan
• Arno Gujon (born 1985), humanitarian, from France
• Timothy John Byford (1941–2014), film director, from England
• George Ostrogorsky (1902–1976), historian, from Russia
• Francis Mackenzie (1833–1895), Protestant missionary, from Scotland
• Flora Sandes (1876–1956), nurse and soldier, from England
• Emil Hájek (1886–1974), pianist and composer, from Austria-Hungary
• Igor Youskevitch (1912–1994), dancer, from Russia
• Archibald Reiss (1875–1929), criminologist, from Germany
• (1811–1875), entrepreneur, from Bohemia
• (1839–1902), merchant and industrialist, from Bohemia
• (1847–1922), musician, from Bohemia
• Jovan Valenta (1826–1887), physician, from Prague
• (1811–1900), military, from France
• (1814–1887), publisher, from Bohemia
• Maria Fjodorovna Zibold (1849–1939), physician, from Russia
• ^[3] (1890–1967), footballer, from Prague
• Alois Machek (1895–19xx), footballer, from Hradec Králové
• František Zach (1807–1892), military, from Moravia
• (1839–1924), statistician, from Bohemia
• (1820–1884), physician, from Bohemia
• Eduard Mihel (1864–1915), physician, from Bohemia
• Jara Ribnikar (1912–2007), Partisan and writer
• (1859–1911), compositor, from Bohemia
• (1879–1969), actress, from Bohemia
• Vladislav Titelbah (1847–1925), painter, from Bohemia
• Eva Haljecka Petković (1870–1947), physician, from Poland
• (1815–1893), physician, from Galicia
• Nina Kirsanova (1898–1989), dancer, from Russia

See also

• Visa policy of Serbia
• Serbian diaspora

Notes and References

1. Web site: International Migration and Development. 13 May 2016.
2. Web site: Migration profiles – Serbia. UNICEF. 20 August 2018.
3. Original name in Czech is Miloš Eckert