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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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 present 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.
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A 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 care for the children of Slovenian descent in Bosnia and Herzegovina in terms of their learning and preservation of Slovenian language.
COBISS.SI-ID: 282195712
The article examines the response of the Slovenian immigrant communities in the USA to the fascist trial against the Slovenes and Croats in the Italian Eastern province of Julian March and the execution of four of them in Trieste in 1930. The article presents the actions whereby the Slovenian diaspora in the USA condemned the fascist (un)justice and drew the attention of American political and public opinion to the oppression of the Slovenian and Croatian ethnic minorities under the fascist rule. The article addresses a new and not yet studied topic in the history of the Slovenian diaspora and their political and cultural relationships with its homeland. It also contributes to the studies of the construction of the memory and the attitudes of the Slovenian diaspora towards fascism and antifascism. The article is based on a systematic study of Slovenian newspapers in the USA and on an analysis of the media discourses.
COBISS.SI-ID: 39253549
Focusing on the Slovenian case, the article presents pupils from three primary schools and people who define themselves as culturally mixed and who proudly manifest their hyphenated identity. In opposition to unambiguous ethnic identity, the concept of cultural mixedness and hyphenated ethnic identity is advocated. Both concepts recognize multiethnicity, multiculturality, multireligiousness, and plurilinguality on the individual and group levels. The culture of mixedness resists any classification and categorization, while the hyphenated identity explains the choice in case a person wishes to do so. Both concepts enable each individual to define himself or herself freely, proudly and voluntarily as a member of several cultures, several languages, several ethnic communities and religions.
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