On June 20, 2014, Janja Žitnik Serafin organised an international academic conference entitled Labour migrations and immigrant/minority cultural production in the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Researchers from five countries (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia) presented their papers; the audience though included participants from other countries as well. The conference faced, for the first time, research findings on the cultural production of Slovenian societies in other countries of ex-Yugoslavia with research findings on the cultural production of Croatian, Serbian, Bosniak, Macedonian, Montenegrin and Kosovo-Albanian cultural societies in Slovenia.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 37360685The multidisciplinary, international and bilingual academic journal Dve domovini / Two Homelands: Migration Studies is the central journal in migration studies published in Slovenia. It brings articles and book reviews in the fields of humanities and social sciences focusing on various aspects of international migration. The journal has been published since 1990 and has an international editorial board. In 2014, the journal received the recognition of TOP ACHIEVEMENT FOR 2013 in the research field of National Question. Abstracts and indexing: SSCI – Social Sciences Citation Index, SCOPUS, 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. Dve domovini / Two Homelands homepage: http://twohomelands.zrc-sazu.si/?home&lang=en.
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine
International master study programme EMMIR – European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations – is a result of the programme group’s cooperation with European and African universities (from Slovenia, Germany, Norway, Czech Republic, Sudan, and two universities from Uganda), with the support of an elite programme for international cooperation and exchange of students and professors in higher education, Erasmus Mundus. European Commission recognised this programme as unique mainly because of its interdisciplinary and intercultural perspective. Marina Lukšič Hacin is corse director of this programme (http://www.emmir.org/faculty/course-directors/). Five members of the programme group are members of the Slovenian teachers' team within this study programme. In the summer semester of 2014, three members of the programme group, Marina Lukšič Hacin, Jure Gombač and Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik gave lectures at the University of Stavanger, Norway, where they are in charge of three EMMIR study modules. Jure Gombač and Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik also gave lectures at the EMMIR Intensive Phase Symposium at the University of Oldenburg, Germany in September 2014. On February 12–13, 2014 members of the programme group organized in Nova Gorica an EMMIR consortium meeting at which representatives of all the partner universities participated. Members of the programme group were also mentors in their students’ master’s theses in 2014. One student stayed at the Institute for an entire semester and another two students for two months each.
D.10 Educational activities
COBISS.SI-ID: 37355309The paper examines the immigration to the free port of Trieste in the 18th century, its implication on the demographic growth and the formation of the city's multiethnic an cosmopolitan social fabric. The analysis rests on data from church registers and civil censuses. The dynamics of the immigration processes, and the demographic, social and vocational structures as well as the geographic origins of the immigration influxes are discussed. The intermarriage behaviours are then exposed as the basis for the examination of the integration or isolation tendencies of several immigrant groups. The work is an original contribution to the comparative studies on migration to the cities and on the intermarriages as integration strategies.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 37478701The core of this exhibition is a life story of one of Istrian egg sellers from Gračišče, and an ethnographic photo comic strip of her trade route. The photo comics emerged out of research and documentation of Marija's circular route between Gračišče, the villages around Buzet and Trieste. The representation of her life and trade route includes excerpts from her interviews, interviews with her daughters, passages from her books Šavrinka stories I, II, and III as well as excerpts from the fieldwork diaries of the exhibition authors that they wrote on route. The exhibition as well as the research used innovative methodological approaches and dealt with under-researched subject of women work migration.
F.28 Organising an exhibition
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