An exhibition on a specific type of women work migrations in Istria was set up at the International Interdisciplinary Conference “Movements, Narratives & Landscapes”, University of Zadar, Croatia, from 5–7 June 2015. The dominant characteristic of Istria in the first half of the 20th century was its economic backwardness and belated industrialization, coupled by transatlantic as well as seasonal and weekly work migrations of Slovenian- and Croatian-speaking inhabitants to coastal towns. The core of this exhibition is a life story of one of the Slovenian Istrian egg sellers, a woman called Marija Franca 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 the interviews with her, 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, which they wrote on route. The exhibition was also set up at an academic event in Sv. Anton on 11 September [COBISS.SI-ID 38793517].
F.28 Organising an exhibition
COBISS.SI-ID: 38491437Within her doctoral research, Marijanca Ajša Vižintin developed an original model of the inclusion of migrant children. In 2015, she was awarded Silver Emblem of the ZRC for the best doctoral dissertation in the humanities and social sciences. The model presented in the dissertation was further introduced at the Days of Pedagogy and Andragogy, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana; National Conference KEKS, Brdo pri Kranju; 20. anniversary of Slovenian Reading Association (published); Library FB, Kamnik; and various schools, e.g. Primary School TO Zagorje ob Savi; First Gymnasium Maribor; Bilingual Primary School Lendava [COBISS.SI-ID 1537441988, 39110189, 1851778, 39109677, 15595057, 15519281, 15833393]. The model was extremely well received and proved to be update, applicable and highly topical.
F.23 Development of new system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods
COBISS.SI-ID: 39110189The author explored organizational patterns used by the Bosniaks in Slovenia compared to those used by the Slovenians in B&H, their cultural production and the use of their mother tongues. She examined how the minority status of the Slovenians in B&H has been reflected in their cultural and society life and what difficulties have been reported concerning their questionable status – especially in the field of culture – by the Bosniaks in Slovenia. The paper is based on extensive fieldwork carried out under the author’s supervision: a survey on the position of immigrants and members of the so-called “new minorities” in Slovenia; a survey carried out among Slovenian cultural associations in B&H; and interviews with members of both minorities in Slovenia and B&H respectively. In April, the paper was presented at an international academic conference in Sarajevo, B&H, and in September at the annual AEMI conference (Association of European Migration Institutions) in Turin, Italy.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 38635309The paper is the first approach to the neglected and completely unknown issue of the repopulation and social restoration of the Slovenian coastal area, which accompanied and followed the so called »exodus«, i.e. the almost complete emigration of the Italian and part of the Slovenian population from Istria when after WWII it became part of the Yugoslav socialist state. The author contextualises the Istrian case into the great repopulation processes that occurred after WWII in connection with the new European and world political order. He discusses the dynamic, structural, political and organizational aspects of the replacement and the subsequent changes of the ethnic, social and cultural features of the area. He also highlights the integration of this area into the Slovenian and broader Yugoslav state context as well as several aspects concerning the construction of its specific Mediterranean cultural identity. The paper is based on the quantitative and qualitative sources of the local administration that allow the analyses of migration movements from the point of view of the population replacements.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 38593325International 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 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 course 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. Between February and May 2015, three members of the programme group, Marina Lukšič Hacin, Jure Gombač and Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik gave four series of lectures at the University of Stavanger, Norway, where they are in charge of four EMMIR study modules. Members of the programme group were also mentors in their students’ master’s theses in 2015 (COBISS.SI-ID 4052475). Students from Brazil, Armenia and Vietnam stayed at the Institute from 1 February to 1 June, and students from Iceland, Canada, Russia, Italy and and Ghana were doing an internship at the Institute from 1 October to 30 November.
D.10 Educational activities
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