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<p>The article researches the subjective perception of migration, the reasons for emigration and the conditions for return, and the perception of homeland by recent emigrants from Slovenia. Since the 2008–2015 economic crisis, there has been a strong stream of net emigration and brain drain from Slovenia. By means of semi-structured interviews with recent emigrants, we found out that their prevailing reasons for migration were economic, their view of the selected location pragmatic, and their subjective perception of homeland mostly reduced to the narrow social network and world of everyday life. Only a smaller part of the interviewees identifies itself with Slovenia as an organised cultural and political space. Therefore, under the condition of the free movement of labour within the EU and a semi-peripheral position of the Slovene economy, new waves of net emigration from Slovenia can be expected in the future, especially in periods of economic crises.</p>
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The article researches the subjective perception of migration, the reasons for emigration and the conditions for return, and the perception of homeland by recent emigrants from Slovenia. Since the 2008–2015 economic crisis, there has been a strong stream of net emigration and brain drain from Slovenia. By means of semi-structured interviews with recent emigrants, we found out that their prevailing reasons for migration were economic, their view of the selected location pragmatic, and their subjective perception of homeland mostly reduced to the narrow social network and world of everyday life. Only a smaller part of the interviewees identifies itself with Slovenia as an organised cultural and political space. Therefore, under the condition of the free movement of labour within the EU and a semi-peripheral position of the Slovene economy, new waves of net emigration from Slovenia can be expected in the future, especially in periods of economic crises.

Pragmatism and Non-national Perception of Homeland by Younger Generations of Slovenian Emigrants

Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies / Razprave in Gradivo, Revija za narodnostna vprašanja

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The article researches the subjective perception of migration, the reasons for emigration and the conditions for return, and the perception of homeland by...

Pragmatism and Non-national Perception of Homeland by Younger Generations of Slovenian Emigrants

Published Online: Sep 29, 2023

Page range: 107 - 126

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36144/rig87.dec21.107-126

Keywords
migrations, Slovene emigrants, subjective perception of migrations, perception of homeland, Slovenia

© 2021 Gorazd Kovačič, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Pragmatism and Non-national Perception of Homeland by Younger Generations of Slovenian Emigrants

Published Online: Sep 29, 2023

Page range: 107 - 126

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36144/rig87.dec21.107-126

Keywordsmigrations, Slovene emigrants, subjective perception of migrations, perception of homeland, Slovenia

© 2021 Gorazd Kovačič, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
migrations, Slovene emigrants, subjective perception of migrations, perception of homeland, Slovenia