The book presents research results by 14 authors, including all the members of the project team. The central part of the book is divided into three sections: “Selected aspects of Slovenian emigration research”, “Approaches, methods, categorisation”, and “Topical issues”. With such thematic structure and contents, the book is aimed at touching upon various questions concerning Slovenian emigration, taking into account contemporary international research trends.
COBISS.SI-ID: 292870656
The author presents an overview of the complex migration dynamics in Slovenia and its border regions over the last two hundred years. She covers migrations in “Aus-trian times”, during the First World War and the time of the first Yugoslavia, during the Second World War and the second Yugoslavia, and during the war in Yugoslavia and Slovenia’s gaining of independence. Both the intensive migration dynamics that occurred due to people’s seeking of employment and refuge, and the political move-ment of the borders, have been construed in migration studies as highly complex phenomena. This poses numerous challenges for interpreting how to understand migrations in 21st-century migration studies.
COBISS.SI-ID: 43361837
The article presents how Slovenian women emigrants and women immigrants to Slovenia have become an important part of migration studies in Slovenia. The research has focused on gendered migration and revealed different ways of structuring power relationships, social practices and institutions organized according to the gender principle. The article also focuses on methodological development and emphasises the narrative and autobiographical approaches, which brought the voices of women migrants from the past and the present to the analysis of migration, thus enriching various disciplines with personal experiences, individual interpretations and the variety of emotions of women on the move.
COBISS.SI-ID: 42683181
The paper discusses emigration from Venetian Slovenia to the USA in the early de-cades of the 20th century on the basis of passenger lists compiled by the US immigra-tion authorities. It illustrates the dynamic and structural characteristics of the move-ments and the typological change from seasonal continental to transatlantic labour migration. The overseas migration was also intended to be temporary and was part of the conservative socio-economic strategies of the rural communities. However, in many cases it led to the permanent settling of the emigrants in the USA. This marked the beginning of permanent emigration from Venetian Slovenia and introduced the process of depopulation of the region. The logistical aspects and the role of social networks in the migration and settlement process are discussed as well.
COBISS.SI-ID: 42674733
The paper focuses on the complexity of the dynamics of migration in the Republic of Slovenia/Yugoslavia in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, or more precisely, during the period spanning the wartime and its conclusion to the years of the liberalisation of the Yugoslav international migration policy, linked to the 1962 Law on Amnesty, and to the agreement between SFR Yugoslavia and the Republic of Austria on the regulation of the employment of Yugoslav workers in Austria (1963). The paper aims to provide a concise and structured overview of the prevalent mi-gration practices in Slovenia during this period, highlighting international political processes that had a significant impact on the dynamics of migration.
COBISS.SI-ID: 44900653