The article addresses the migration processes in the fifteen years after WWII in what is today’s Slovenian coastal region. The main emphasis is on the immigration following the annexation of this area to socialist Yugoslavia in 1954. The replacement of the population, the radical change of the ethnic structure and the geography of the immigration inflow are outlined. Some questions that affected the immigration and repopulation process are discussed and some possibilities for further research are presented, i.e. the policy and management of the migration processes, the inclusion patterns of the newcomers and the relationships among the indigenous and immigrant components.
COBISS.SI-ID: 44234797
The paper addresses how Slovenian newspapers reported on defections from Yugoslavia in the period from 1945-1965. During the time when departures from the SFRY were restricted and regulated, defections were sanctioned and the media were instrumentalized as a state ideological apparatus. It seems that defections were not a very common topic in the newspapers. When they did appear in newsprint, they were criminalized and not infrequently subjected to a fair amount of moralizing. When the defectors themselves were given voice, they expressed remorse and contrition, with the message that going abroad meant suffering, misery or even ruin.
COBISS.SI-ID: 44895789
In the article the author deals with reflections on the settlement of the Koper District (Koprski okraj) after the Second World War. In the first post-war years, Koper was mostly settled by professionals and political functionaries, and later by other people from various social strata. According to the author’s hypothesis, the communist authorities systematically encouraged settlement only during the first period, and later these processes took place more spontaneously.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1541382084
The article deals with the period of emigration in the Slovenian territory from the end of WWII to the beginning of the 1960s. Beside the limited possibilities for legal crossing, the prevalent forms of emigration in this period were the illegal crossing of the western and northern borders or defection. The many reasons for emigration or escape are most thoroughly described in the auto/biographical testimonies of the agents of these practices. The article is based on an overview and comparative anal-ysis of the personal experiences of emigration and escaping of the selected individ-uals. It aims to highlight the complexity of the reasons for the departure of young people during this period.
COBISS.SI-ID: 45985069
The chapter discusses the almost total change of urban population in Koper/Capodistria. It questions the value of urban heritage in Istrian coastal urban towns to its present-day inhabitants. It has been shown that the majority of urban population, composed of newcomers from various places in Slovenia and former Yugoslavia, do not feel attached to the space they dwell in, because they are not linked to it either by trans-generational memories or by tradition. The ones who do identify with urban heritage are in the minority, the Italians, silenced within the heritage discourse of the dominant ‘other’ – the Slovenian collective memory. Interrupted traditions, processes of appropriation of space and traditions, and alternative attempts to legitimise an ethnic group, silenced due to collective criminalisation, have been shown. In the end the question is raised about the possibilities of healing historical wounds by an inclusive heritage interpretation in the future.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1541794756