Louis Beniger (1894–1979) was one of the leading Slovenian immigrants to the USA. He worked as a teacher, editor and literary author writing about labour issues and the lives of immigrants. The entry on him in the New Slovenian Biographical Lexicon helps understand the contribution of an individual in the framework of the cultural history of Slovenian immigration to the USA.
F.27 Contribution to preserving/protecting natural and cultural heritage
COBISS.SI-ID: 41297453The chapter outlines the research activities in the field of Slovenian migrations from the eve of the First World War onwards. For a long time efforts of the studies focused on the emigration from the Slovenian ethnic territory and on the Slovenian diaspora. Since the end of the 20th century, a re-conceptualization of the migration studies has taken place giving rise to migration studies in the broadest sense of the term. The chapter brings an overview of the existing research results on the history of Slovenian emigration. It points out the role of the Slovenian Migration Institute ZRC SAZU as the only Slovene academic institution dealing specifically with migration studies, and its contribution to the development of this thematic area in Slovenia.
F.29 Contribution to the development of national cultural identity
COBISS.SI-ID: 42321965The lecture brought a brief overview of the emigration from Slovenian ethnic territory from the beginnings of Slovenian mass emigration until today. The author placed Slovenian emigration in the context of European mass emigration. She emphasised that in the framework of Slovenian emigration we can speak about the generation of emigrants from the second half of the 19th century or from the turn of the century, the generation from the period between the two world wars, the generation of the post-second-world-war political emigration and the generation of the post-second-world-war economic emigration. Members of these generations left their homeland when it was marked by different social-political and cultural-linguistic contexts, and they transferred these contexts to their descendants. The latter were different from the generations of Slovenian emigrants who came to their milieus later on, and from their off-spring. The lecture for teachers contributed significantly to teachers' knowledge concerning the history of Slovenian emigration.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
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