Immigrants, Who are You? Research on Immigrants in Slovenia
This research study and monograph aims at presenting immigrants who were first dehumanized by the politics, then by the wider public in Slovenia, and presented as social vermin. Proff that this is so is the study itself. It combines quantitative analysis of survey results, the immigrants’ life stories, and accounts of our own experience during the field work.
Introduction
Methods
The road, the pathless lands, and the revival of camps
Walking the embers
Why?
The die is cast
But where to?
Inching one’s way and tunnels
On the road
Seized and stuck in the mud
New home: Endouring in Slovenia
Asylum Seeker’s Home and Centre for Aliens in Šiska, Ljubljana
The Centre for Aliens in Veliki Otok near Postojna
Home on fire
National cage
Tightening the noose
Democracy without people
Between two extremes
Trust – Betting on the future
New World – The West
Open Door
The fortress of success
Excuse us!
Violation of human rights
Where are the plush bears?
Behind the Iron Curtain
Distribution – a human being as a category
Legislative lottery
Schengen – an imagined area without borders
Conclusion
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