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Ideas and Cultures graduate study programme > Slovenian Emigrants Between
Tradition and Modernity

Slovenian Emigrants Between

Tradition and Modernity
Objectives of the course
Students will be acquainted with historical, sociological and ethnic viewpoints of
emigration and the life of Slovenians in new environments. Special emphasis will
be placed on their cultural activities, literary creativity, maintenance of ethnic
identities, and care for Slovenian material and cultural tradition abroad. The
course also will examine the original contributions of emigrants in the culture of
the Slovenians on the one hand, and in multicultural society in the emigrant's
new country on the other hand. Lecturers will use authentic archive material,
primary literature and the results of their own empirical studies. Students will be
informed from the theoretical point of view of studies of emigrants abroad and
modern methodology of researching emigrants abroad, and they will be
encouraged to critically compare methods and approaches. The interdisciplinary
basis of the course provides a well-rounded view into the problems of Slovenian
emigrants abroad.

Prerequisites
Not required.

Assessment methods
Students undertake two curriculum obligations - a written paper within the
framework of a seminar and an oral examination on the content of lectures and
mandatory reading. The written paper will be on a theme chosen by the student
in consultation with the lecturer, and it will be a prerequisite for the oral
examination.

Course contents
The time frame is from the first mass wave of emigrants in the first half of the
19th century to the "brain drain" of today. The course will comprise four thematic
sections. The first is categorisation and setting problems along with the
establishment of basic concepts. Included are various research methodological
approaches and their ranges and a presentation of research results with the
emphasis on the anthropological and sociological aspects of Slovenian
emigrants abroad (re-socialisation, acculturation, integration vs. assimilation,
multiculturalism, migration theory and politics, etc.).

The second theme is the historical description of Slovenian emigration: defining

migrations (theoretical aspect) and of sources and literature; legal aspects
(emigration and immigration legislation); demographic aspects of migration;
analyses of sex, age, education and vocation makeup of emigrants,
geographical aspects of emigration (direction of emigration); causes and
consequences of emigration; attitudes of the homeland (authority, church,
intellectuals) to emigration; human and social positions of immigrants in the new
countries; organisation of their lives in their new environments (societies,
publishing, schooling, etc.); the contribution of Slovenians to their new environs
(in the working, cultural, scientific areas, etc.); contact between emigrants and
their homeland; involvement and comparison with migration processes
worldwide. The third theme examines the ethnological aspects of Slovenian Lecturer
emigration: comparative treatment of the forming of ethnic identities and its
prof.dr. Marina Lukšič
manifestation in everyday life in the first and all following generations of Hacin
emigrants from Slovenia by different continents and periods of emigration;
returning home (problems of adaptation); autobiographical method of research, Course code
method of observing with self- participation. 8IS006
The final theme covers Slovenian immigrant literature: a historical review from Lectures: 30 hours
early immigrant forms of literature in the 19th century through the flowering of Seminar: 30 hours
Slovenian immigrant literature in the 1920s and 1930s, and the independent
development of so-called expatriate literature in the second half of the 20th ECTS: 15
century to the literature of those returning after 1990; the problem of the
ghettoisation of immigrant literature in Slovenian literary history; the question of Type of course
literary bilingualism of expatriate authors; and modern problems of literary lectures, seminar
creativity in emigrants abroad.
Language of
instruction
Recommended reading Slovene

Basic Teaching methods

lectures
Castles, S. and M. J. Miller. The Age of Migration: International Population
Movements in the Modern World. London, 1998
Čebulj Sajko, Breda. Etnologija in izseljenstvo. Ljubljana: Slovensko
etnološko društvo, 1999
Čebulj Sajko, Breda. Med srečo in svobodo. Ljubljana: Samozaložba, 1992
Drnovšek, Marjan. Pot slovenskih izseljencev na tuje. Ljubljana: Mladika,
1991
Drnovšek, Marjan. Usodna privlačnost Amerike. Ljubljana. Nova revija,
1998
Klemenčič, Matjaž. Ameriški Slovenci in NOB v Jugoslaviji. Maribor:
Obzorja, 1987
Klinar, Peter. Mednarodne migracije. Ljubljana: Obzorja, 1976
Lukšič-Hacin, Marina. Ko tujina postane dom. Ljubljana: Znanstveno in
publicistično središče, 1995
Lukšič-Hacin, Marina. Multikulturalizem in migracije. Ljubljana: Založba
ZRC, 1999
Valenčič, Vlado. Izseljevanje Slovencev v tujino do druge svetovne vojne.
Dve domovini/Two Homelands 1 (1990): 43-82
Žitnik, Janja. Književno delo slovenskih izseljencev. Slavistična revija 48
(2): 159-176
Žitnik, Janja. Besedna umetnost slovenskih izseljencev in njeno mesto v
sodobni slovenski kulturi. Dve domovini/Two Homelands 14 (2001): 67-90

Supplementary

Chmelar, Hans. Höhepunkte der österreichischen Auswanderung: Die

Auswanderung aus den im Reichsrat vertretenen Königreichen und
Ländern in den Jahren 1905-1911. Wien: Österreichische Akademie der
Wissenschaften, 1974
Čebulj Sajko, Breda. Razpotja izseljencev. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2000
Friš, Darko. Ameriški Slovenci in katoliška cerkev 1871-1924. Ljubljana;
Dunaj; Celovec: Mohorjeva založba, 1995
Kokalj Kočevar, Monika. Iseljenec: življenjske zgodbe Slovencev po svetu.
Ljubljana: Muzej novejše zgodovine Slovenije, 2001
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Amerike. Celovec; Ljubljana; Dunaj: Mohorjeva založba, 1999
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narodnostna sestava njenega prebivalstva. Geografski vestnik 58, 1986
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Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2001
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jugoslovanske in evropske perspektive. Ekonomski zbornik 7, 1965
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Žigon, Zvone. Iz spomina v prihodnost: Slovenska politična emigracija v
Argentini. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2001
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Ljubljana: Rokus, 1999

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