Migrations represent special movements of individuals or groups of individuals from the territory of emigration with the intention of temporary or permanent settlement. Migrations of people represent demographic processes which were always caused by economic, political, ethnic, religious, cultural, existential, and social conditions in emigrant countries and emigrant areas. Due to many factors which influenced migrations and stimulated (or hindered) them, the directions and volume of migration movements are quite unpredictable.
COBISS.SI-ID: 15678216
The life story of Jim Pugel represents the typical life of a Slovene immigrant who had to transform overnight from farmer to industrial worker, and had to move from the calm countryside environment to the city. Thru the story all the troubles in the process of adjustment to American way of life and numerous situations with which Slovene immigrants had to cope are described. The book contributes to the knowledge on the existence of the Slovene community in Pueblo, so among Slovenes in the U.S. as among researchers of ethnic communities in the U.S. and in Slovenia.
COBISS.SI-ID: 249018112
Pueblo represents one of the many cities in the American West which owe its development to the development of railroads and roads and industries. According to the U.S. census data of 1910 there lived in Pueblo approximately 2,400 immigrants and their children with Slovene mother tongue. Most of them were from Dolenjska, Bela krajina and Notranjska. They settled in the southeastern part of the city, in Grove and Bessemer. In the beginning of the 20th century in Pueblo the largest Slovene settlement in the U.S. West developed. Slovenes are still present in Pueblo today.
COBISS.SI-ID: 11515469
In the treatise the situation of Slovenes who live outside the borders of Slovenia as members of indigenous national minorities and as emigrants is discussed. In the first part of the treatise, the problems of minority protection of Slovenes in the neighboring countries are treated; in the second part the process of emigration from Slovene ethnic territories in different periods of time, and the organizations of Slovene emigrants in Europe and overseas are discussed. In a special subchapter, the problems of Slovene communities in successor states of the former Yugoslavia are treated.
COBISS.SI-ID: 11461965
In the article the history of Slovene periodicals in the U.S. from 1891 until the beginning of the 1920s is discussed. Immigrant periodicals were and still are one of the most important proofs of the life of immigrant communities; at the same time they are useful as a source of reports on cultural, political, and other activities of the community. History of the ethnic press shows the history of ethnic communities in the U.S. Slovene immigrants in the U.S. published ca. 100 titles. Some newspapers ceased publication after some issues; some of them are published still today.
COBISS.SI-ID: 11152461