Žarko Lazarević from the partner institute, Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, pointed to the fact that the home environments which generated the emigration flow remain largely unexplored. The issues regarding the economic dimensions of migrations remain outside the scope of the research interest as well. This has to do with a broader concept in the study of migrations, dominant in the past. We should be aware that the emphasis on the economic aspects of migrations as well as their effects and consequences for the local economies has only recently come into the focus of the research interest. Extensive migrations in the second half of the 20th century placed the issue of the reverse influences of the expatriate communities on their original environments in the centre of the research interest. Questions were raised about the processes taking place in their home environment after the emigration of a part of the population and about the nature of the reverse effects of the expatriates on their home environment. This applies to social as well as economic phenomena. Thus the goal of this paper was to present an overview of the basic characteristics of migrations with regard to the economic circumstances. On the basis of available literature, the author tried to present the basic sequence of causes and effects of the migrations from the Slovenian space with regard to the economic circumstances.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 40517165The article presents a specific woman migration from Goriška region to Egypt from the middle of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century as well as economic and political circumstances of their migrations. Women mostly work as well-paid domestic workers and considerably contributed to the preservation of the families and farms with their wages expecially in the times of the fascist regime.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 42184493Upon the 65th anniversary of the death of Louis Adamic, the author Janja Žitnik Serafin presented in her lecture some of the typical traumatic experiences and feelings of a young Slovenian immigrant to the US as they are reflected in numerous autobiographic passages from Adamic's early works. Louis Adamic was the most successful Slovenian emigrant writer. Special attention in this lecture was paid to his autobiography Laughing in the Jungle (1932) and his novel Grandsons (1935). Although he wrote in English, Adamic has been included in the majority of general overviews of Slovenian literature. The analysis is aimed at defining Adamic’s literary techniques of inserting autobiographical features and of expressing his cultural identity in his abovementioned works from the 1930s. The lecture at the Slovenian Writers' Association contributed to the popularisation of research findings on Slovenian emigrants' literary production.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 40516397Janja Žitnik Serafin and Aleksej Kalc organised upon the 30th anniversary of Slovenian Migration Institute ZRC SAZU an international academic conference titled "Slovenian Emigration Research: New Approaches and Subject Matter". The conference was held in Ljubljana on October 21st, 2016 and it was co-financed by the Slovenian Government’s Office for Slovenians Abroad. Eighteen individually invited authors from Slovenia and abroad presented their papers. The themes of the two morning sessions were “General aspects of Slovenian migration research” and “Methodological approaches applied in case studies of individual emigrant communities”. The afternoon programme included another two sessions: “New Approaches and Subject Matter" and “Presentation of projects”, the latter consisting of presentations of research projects lead by members of Slovenian Migration Institute. The final discussion aimed at conference conclusions pointed to the fact that the present cannot be discussed separately from the past and that contemporary immigration to Europe cannot be fully understood without a thorough insight into the history of emigration of one's own nation.
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