The book on the Aleksandrinke (women migration from Slovenia to Egypt) was edited by Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik. It was written upon the invitation from the editors of the monograph series Transkulturelle Perspektiven, Dirk Hörder, a prominent historian and Sylvia Hahn, a historian of women migration. The book is a significant contribution to the knowledge and understanding of migration from Slovenian ethnic territory and an exceptional contribution to the research into women migration which has become a topical phenomenon in modern Europe and worldwide as we nowadays often speak about the “feminisation of migrations”. Due to the topicality of the Aleksandrinke phenomenon, the book is relevant for international academic community. All the authors are renowned researchers while special relevance is also added to the monograph by both editors of the series who have contributed three chapters.
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Authors of this academic monograph are members of the programme group. An innovative methodological junction of the different disciplinary and authors’ research approaches used in individual chapters consists in the common attempt to subjectivize the “object" of the research, primarily by taking into account a heterogeneous multitude of personal testimonies. In this way, various definitions of children and categories of children in connection with migration are presented in the first part of the book. The second part examines childhood in emigration context as it can be observed in the literary works and various websites created by Slovenian emigrants and their descendants. The third part of the book focuses on some specific migrant situations. The authors have examined some intimate aspects of migrant experience of children of the so-called Alexandrian Women, children involved in forced migration during the Second World War, and children of diplomats. The fourth part of the book discusses the Yugoslav public care for the children in Slovenian diaspora between the World Wars, migration of children within the Yugoslav area, and the present care for the children of Slovenian descent in Bosnia and Herzegovina in terms of their learning and preservation of Slovenian language. Free access to full text: http://isim.zrc-sazu.si/sites/default/files/ISBN9789612548469.pdf.
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The book Going Places is one of the most important research achievements of the programme group in 2014, a publication that took years of preparations and was published by a renowned American university publishing house. It presents transnational and global emotional narrative about a century-long migration of women from Slovenia to different directions: North America, Egypt, Italy, Argentina and Romania. Women migrants and their personal experiences have been in the focus of academic research only for the past two decades, when academia’s prevailing general belief has become that migration is a process characterized by distinct gender-related specifics. In regard to various social, economic and historical circumstances, the life stories of migrant women show how lives depend on cultural landscapes, personal attitudes, intimate calculations and independent decisions. The book illustrates how the decisions in the life-long migration processes were influenced not only by economic and political factors but also by family bonds and friendship networks as well as by intimate reasons and aspirations. The book was awarded the special recognition "Excellent in science 2015", conferred by the Slovenian Research Agency for top research achievements.
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The academic monograph is one of the main results of the members of the programme group. The book is the first comprehensive academic work on the immigration of Slovenians to other parts of the so-called "Yugoslav area", and on their organization. The book is divided into three chronological parts: Historical Outline, Between the Past and the Present, and The Current Situation. The data and findings of previous partial research are revised, upgraded and completed by the results of the authors' own archival and statistical research as well as their extensive fieldwork (questionnaire, half-structured interviews, meetings/roundtables, informal interviews, observation with participation), carried out between 2012 and 2014. With the recommendations prepared by the authors of the third part of the book, this work is also relevant for the designing of future national strategies concerning the relations between the Republic of Slovenia and Slovenians abroad.
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The book was published in English by the Central European University Press in 2015, and it appeared in Albanian and Serbian translations in 2011. It focuses on the contemporary meanings of the burek (a pie made of pastry dough filled with various fillings), an object that in Slovenia has become a metaphor for the Balkans and immigrants from the republics of the former Yugoslavia, especially from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Without the burek it would be difficult to discuss either the jargon of the Slovenian youth or the imagined world of Slovenian nationalism. At the "Gourmand Best in the World" competition, the book was proclaimed the winning Slovenian book, and it won the second place in the category "Best Food Writing Book". The announcement of the winning books took place in China at the end of May, 2016. The ceremony was an international event with excellent media coverage, and it had a global resounding.
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