V zadnjih dvajsetih letih je zeliščarstvo postalo večfunkcijska proizvodno-storitvena dejavnost, v kateri se prepletajo podjetništvo, tradicionalno znanje, kmetijstvo, varovanje naravnega okolja in ...sodoben način življenja. Ključni, relativno nov akter slovenskega zeliščarstva, so zeliščarji-podjetniki, ki na tržišče vstopajo z različnim znanjem in trženjskimi pristopi. S kvalitativno analizo polstrukturiranih intervjujev z zeliščarji-podjetniki smo za vsako podjetje izdelali kvalitativni profil in shematiziran prikaz podjetniških in trženjskih značilnosti (raznovrstnost ponudbe, prodajni kanali, možnost za širitev ponudbe, promocija, povezovanje in mreženje ter razpoložljivost delovne sile in vprašanje nasledstva). Le-te so močno odvisne od značilnosti nosilca dejavnosti, in sicer njegove starosti, zaključene formalne stopnje izobrazbe, starosti podjetja in podjetniških izkušenj ter razlogov za ustanovitev podjetja. Za uspešno delovanje zeliščarjev-podjetnikov so ključne njihove povezave z lokalnim in širšim (poslovnim) okoljem.
Based on field research in Slovenian schools, the article examines the role of the family in the integration process of migrant children. While migrant children perceive the family as the most ...important factor influencing their overall well-being and life satisfaction, research shows that parents of migrant children are often not involved in school activities and life. The article explores how the role of parents in the integration process of migrant children in the school environment is understood at the policy level and how it is perceived by migrant children and the educational community. It also explores what are the main barriers to the involvement of migrant parents in schools and what are the existing practices and experiences in Slovenian schools. The analysis is based on qualitative research in Slovenian schools with children and the educational community conducted as part of the Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe (MiCREATE) project.
Abstract
The political sphere is typically reserved for adults in contemporary nation‐states, leaving limited opportunities for children's participation in democratic processes. This holds even more ...true for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children who are politically unrepresented and often find themselves in a precarious position due to their immigrant status. The article aims to overcome this gap by presenting their experiences of Slovenian reception and asylum procedures as a framework for child‐informed policy. The child‐centred approach as presented in this paper starts from the principles of children's rights, particularly from the right to express views (Article 12 of the CRC) and the use of children's viewpoints as a way of interpreting how reception and asylum procedures should be. In this way, the paper highlights key factors that affect unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children's well‐being and participation rights, including being able to stay with family and friends, having adequate material conditions, having good relationships with institutional staff, having access to information and legal advice, having trained interviewers, translators and decision‐makers.
Based on field research with asylum-seeking children in reception centres, the article looks at the situation of unaccompanied minor migrants in Slovenia through the lens of the child-centred ...approach and from a procedural justice perspective. Initially it highlights the commonalities between procedural justice and the child-centred approach in terms of voice, dignity and respect and impartial decision-making, and thereafter describes migrants' perceptions and experiences of asylum reception and determination procedures from the perspective of the child-centred approach and procedural justice. Interviews with unaccompanied migrant minors revealed that their experiences of reception and the asylum process were most influenced by respect for dignity and voice. Finally, the article discusses the relevance of the child-centred approach to the inclusion of non-citizen children at the intersection of different rights regimes.
V članku preučujemo, kako je zaprtje slovenskih šol v času pandemije covid-19 vplivalo na proces integracije priseljenih otrok in reprodukcijo družbene neenakosti. Članek zagovarja tezo, da sta ...zaprtje šol in šolanje na daljavo prispevala k poglabljanju družbenih razlik med priseljenimi in nepriseljenimi učenci. V analizi predstavljamo podatke kvalitativne raziskave, izvedene v okviru mednarodnega projekta MiCREATE med učiteljicami ter priseljenimi dijaki in dijakinjami. Rezultati nakazujejo, da se bodo družbene neenakosti z zaprtjem šol poglobile. Ključne pri tem so jezikovne ovire, ki onemogočajo uspešno šolsko delo priseljenih učencev, zanemarljive pa niso niti tehnične omejitve (na primer pomanjkljiva digitalna pismenost in nezadostna tehnična oprema). Ob zaključku izpostavimo potencialne ukrepe za soočanje s potrebami priseljenih učencev, na primer načela medkulturnega izobraževanja.
When it comes to academic debates about the integration of migrant children, the field is thoroughly heterogeneous in terms of the methods used and topics discussed. Research ranges from questions of ...belonging, acculturation, and hybrid identities to a focus on education, religion, family, well‐being and mental health, peer dynamics, integration support measures, nationalism, xenophobia, and discrimination. The initiative to publish a special issue on the integration of migrant children emerged from the project Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe (MiCREATE), a Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action, which aimed to identify effective child‐centred integration approaches for use in education and at the policy level across the European Union. The overarching goal of this special issue is to reflect on how nationalism manifests itself at different levels of social life and how it is reproduced in integration practices. The articles collected here examine how migrant children, education professionals, and policy‐makers understand, navigate, and experience the processes of integration, and how these processes are in turn influenced by discourses on nationalism and multiculturalism.
The article takes up current academic debates on the integration of migrant children and reflects on how they accommodate the discourse of nationalism; it discusses how nationalism functions as a ...practical category, as a classification scheme, and as a cognitive framework, as well as what counter‐hegemonic views can be found in the existing scholarship. The article shows that academic debates about the integration of migrant children are firmly situated on the conceptual map of nationalism, but navigate this field in different ways. Principally, these debates 1) maintain migrant identity as the main analytical category; 2) focus on the gap exhibited by migrant children in various aspects where non‐migrant children are used as the standard of ‘normality’; 3) view ethnic diversity as a ‘problem’ and therefore approach it as something ‘pathological’; and 4) examine migrant children in relation to nationalizing practices that touch on issues of identity, language, community, and belonging; yet also 5) offer critical counter‐hegemonic views concerning the integration of migrant children and deconstruct the power relations and commonly held classification schemes within the discourse of nationalism.
In 1992, after the dissolution of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Slovenian government unlawfully erased 25,671 individuals—ethnically mainly Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, Macedonians, ...Montenegrins, and Roma—from the Register of Permanent Residents of Slovenia. The aim of this article is to analyze the logic of the governmental rationalities that served as a basis for the politics of the erasure. The article begins by refuting claims that the erasure was a tactic for achieving ethnocultural homogeneity and continues by explaining the mindset involved in this particular practice of government, resting upon Foucault’s notions of raison d’état, governmentality, and sovereign power. Highlighting the prominence of the individual’s political opinion and loyalty to the newly established state, the article discusses the principles of nationalism, which reinforce the very common-sense exclusionary politics related to political loyalty implied in citizenship and ethnic identity. Finally, the article deliberates on the effects of the contemporary diagram of power of the nation-state, which legitimizes the exclusion of individuals from the national polity and thus immobilizes universal respect of human rights.
This article explores the subjective perceptions of well-being of migrant children attending primary school (9-14 years) and secondary school (15-18 years) in Slovenia. It focuses on how they ...conceptualise their fears, worries and concerns, what is important for them to feel accepted and safe, and how they think about their past and the future. Using a comparative perspective, similarities and differences in the experience of well-being of these two age groups of migrants are explored. The analysis is based on open-ended narrative interviews with migrant children and revolves around the question of whether and how age influences their subjective perception of well-being. The article sheds light on age-specific meanings and understandings of migration processes based on the views and experiences of migrant children and youth regarding their well-being, bringing to the fore the perspectives of children that are often missing or underrepresented in integration policy.
During the process of gaining national independence the Slovenian government unlawfully erased 25,671 individuals, mainly citizens of other republics of the former Yugoslavia from the Slovenian ...Register of Permanent Residents. In 2012 the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Kurić and others vs. Republic of Slovenia held that there had been a violation of the 8th, 13th and 14th Articles of the European Convention on Human rights. Following this judgement the Slovenian government adopted a compensation scheme for the Erased introducing the criteria determining conditions for their redress. The article reflects on the political and legal construction of victimhood and reveals the notions of political loyalty, legal conformity and territorial attachment as one of the most decisive elements of victimhood. It shows that the subjectivity of victims in the case of the Erased is not defined within the human rights discourse but is grounded in nationalist terms.
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