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<p>Italy was the first country of the Western world to experience the outburst of the Covid-19 pandemic, and slowing it down required a swift and sizable adaptation of all aspects of life in Italy. Based on a preliminary qualitative study and relying on existing primary and secondary data sources, the author explores the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Slovene community in Italy. Although the community shared the same fate as the rest of Italy’s population in terms of restrictive measures and limitations to human rights, the author argues that some of the measures had a different, sometimes disproportionate and harmful effect on the community. Similarly, the changes in modus vivendi et operandi of the minority and its members that appeared as a side-effect of the pandemic may alter significantly the functioning of the minority in the future, and wider integration processes in the cross-border region may be slowed down or even reversed.</p>
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Italy was the first country of the Western world to experience the outburst of the Covid-19 pandemic, and slowing it down required a swift and sizable adaptation of all aspects of life in Italy. Based on a preliminary qualitative study and relying on existing primary and secondary data sources, the author explores the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Slovene community in Italy. Although the community shared the same fate as the rest of Italy’s population in terms of restrictive measures and limitations to human rights, the author argues that some of the measures had a different, sometimes disproportionate and harmful effect on the community. Similarly, the changes in modus vivendi et operandi of the minority and its members that appeared as a side-effect of the pandemic may alter significantly the functioning of the minority in the future, and wider integration processes in the cross-border region may be slowed down or even reversed.

The Slovene Community in Italy and the Covid-19 Pandemic

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

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Italy was the first country of the Western world to experience the outburst of the Covid-19 pandemic, and slowing it down required a swift and sizable...

The Slovene Community in Italy and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Publié en ligne: 29 sept. 2023

Pages: 83 - 100

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36144/rig85.dec20.83-100

Mots clés
Slovenes in Italy, Slovene minority, Slovene community, Covid-19, border, integration, home-schooling, minority education

© 2020 Sara Brezigar, published by Sciendo

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

The Slovene Community in Italy and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Publié en ligne: 29 sept. 2023

Pages: 83 - 100

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36144/rig85.dec20.83-100

Mots clésSlovenes in Italy, Slovene minority, Slovene community, Covid-19, border, integration, home-schooling, minority education

© 2020 Sara Brezigar, published by Sciendo

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

Mots clés
Slovenes in Italy, Slovene minority, Slovene community, Covid-19, border, integration, home-schooling, minority education