The invited lecture at the AEMI conference discusses different interpretations of the term integration (and on the other hand, assimilation), and some dilemmas on the use of the terms immigrant (also for those who have already acquired citizenship of the receiving country), autochthonous, host society/host country, and tolerance, explaining the contexts in which the use of these terms is problematic. AEMI – Association of European Migration Institutions, a network of 40 research institutions, archives and museums in the field of migration studies, organises annual academic conferences that represent the central opportunity for international exchange of research results in this field in Europe.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 36118573The interdisciplinary, international and bilingual academic journal Dve domovini / Two Homelands: Migration Studies is the central journal in Slovenia focused on migration studies. It publishes articles, reports and book reviews from the fields of the humanities and social sciences focusing on various aspects of international migration. The journal has been published since 1990 and has an international editorial board. Nos. 37 and 38 bringing out two thematic sections, ‘Intercultural Relations in East Asian Societies’ and ‘Marginal Moblities’ were published in 2013. Abstracts and indexing: SSCI – Social Sciences Citation Index, FRANCIS (Sociology/Ethnology/Linguistics of Francis), IBZ – International Bibliography of Periodical Literature, IBR – International Bibliography of Book Reviews, Sociological Abstracts, IBSS - International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, MSH-Maisons des Sciences de l’Homme, Social SciSearch, Journal Citation Reports / Social Science Edition, SCOPUS. The journal is published and edited by the program group of the Slovenian Migration Institute at ZRC SAZU. Dve domovini / Two Homelands homepage: http://twohomelands.zrc-sazu.si/?home&lang=en.
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
Slovenian Migration Institute has been publishing its multilingual monograph series Migracije / Migrations within a distinguished academic publishing house, the ZRC Publishing since 2001. The series is aimed at publication of those scholarly monographs in the fields of the humanities and social sciences that treat subjects connected with international migration. The editors of the Migrations have been the following members of the programme group: Janja Žitnik Serafin (2001–2008); Jernej Mlekuž (2008–2014), and Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik (from 2014). 23 scientific monographs on Slovenian emigration and immigration to Slovenia have been published in the Migracije/Migration series so far, the following one in 2013: Daša Koprivec, Dediščina aleksandrink in spomini njihovih potomcev (on women and girls from the Goriška region who starting in the second half of the 19th century worked in Egypt as nannies, maids, cooks, governesses and nursemaids). As the initiators, publishers and editors of this scholarly monograph series, which is open for publications of authors from Slovenian and foreign research organizations and universities, the members of the program group have been pronouncedly active in Slovenian and international promotion of scientific achievements. Within this series, a "subseries" Migrantke / Migrant Women has been published since 2009 (COBISS.SI-ID 32653613).
C.07 Other editorial board
International postgraduate study program European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations (EMMIR) is a result of the program group’s cooperation with European and African universities with the support of an elite program for international cooperation and exchange in higher education, Erasmus Mundus. European Commission recognised this program as unique mainly because of its interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective. Participating universities: University of Nova Gorica (Slovenia), University of Oldenburg (Germany), University of Stavanger (Norway), University of South Bohemia (Czech Republic), Ahfad University for Women (Sudan), Makerere University Kampala (Uganda) and Mbarara University of Science & Technology (Uganda). The director of this study program is Dr Marina Lukšič Hacin, associated professor (http://www.emmir.org/faculty/course-directors/). In 2013, members of the research program group were mentors in three master's theses within this study program (COBISS.SI-ID 36577581, 36575789 and 36578093). Researchers / teachers have carried out four subjects in the second semester at the University of Stavanger and one subject in the first semester at the University of Nova Gorica. Slovenian Migration Institute at ZRC SAZU is associate partner of EMMIR. In 2013, one student stayed at the Institute for two months (internship) and 8 students stayed for a longer study visit.
D.10 Educational activities
COBISS.SI-ID: 36577581The paper was presented at the prestigious conference Food in History: The 82nd Anglo-American Conference of Historians (London, 2013), to which Jernej Mlekuž was invited by one of the most established historians of migration in the Anglo-Saxon world and the author of several books on ethnic food, Panikos Panayi. The paper discusses burek – a pie made of pastry dough filled with various fillings, well-known in the Balkans, Turkey (bürek), and also in the Near East by other names, which was probably brought to Slovenia in the 1960s by immigrants from the former republics of Yugoslavia. In Slovenia, burek has become a metaphor for the Balkans and immigrants from the republics of the former Yugoslavia. Without the burek it would also be difficult to discuss the jargon of Slovenian youth, the imagined world of Slovenian chauvinism and the rhetorical arsenal of advertising agents when promoting healthy food.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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