News
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Annual DATAMIG Project Conference: Critical Insights into the Datafication of Migration
The event focused on discussions around data-driven migration governance and strategies of resistance.
Living Peace 21: Letters of Wars and Peace
Through public letters, we aim to amplify the voices that advocate for peace, reject violence, and uphold equal rights for all. You are invited to read the 21st letter...
Living Peace 20: Letters of Wars and Peace
Through public letters, we aim to amplify the voices that advocate for peace, reject violence, and uphold equal rights for all. You are invited to read the 20th letter...
Citizen Assembly on the Political Participation of Migrants in Slovenia “Political Participation for All – Towards a Europe of Equals”
The event will explore the opportunities for migrants to participate politically and be fully integrated into society.
Living Peace 19: Letters of Wars and Peace
Through public letters, we aim to amplify the voices that advocate for peace, reject violence, and uphold equal rights for all. You are invited to read the 19th letter...
Seminar “From Corridor to Tampon Zone: The Rebordering of the Balkans”
This seminar explores border regime through the lens of critical, decolonial epistemologies and practices, viewing the border as a contested and shifting space shaped by both violence and resistance.
Projects
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Citizens’ Action for Democracy – CitiDem
CitiDem’s strategic objective is to promote and enhance citizen engagement and participation.
Unforgotten: Advocating for the Rights of the Erased
The purpose of the project is to strengthen advocacy for the adoption of the already drafted law to regularize the status of the erased, provide legal and psychosocial support,...
Peace Research Community Europe (PEACE)
The main challenge for the PEACE Action is to improve our understanding of contemporary challenges concerning peace and security on the European continent and beyond.
Target research project Stimulating and inhibiting factors of international students studying in Slovenia
This project is based on a systematic research approach focusing on a specific student group—international students who come to Slovenia for their studies.
Working conditions and job quality in hospitality and tourism: A comparative analysis with recommendations
The project provides new knowledge on the working conditions and quality of jobs in the hospitality and tourism sector in Slovenia and proposes solutions to the shortage of staff...
Policy coherence for (sustainable) development – assesment of the effects of Slovenian national policies on developing countries and on the sustainable development of the Republic of Slovenia
The purpose of the research project, which is carried out in partnership with the Faculty of Social Sciences, is the preparation of systemic solutions for enforcing the principle of...
Publications
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Article / Media Instrumentalization from Transition to Authoritarian Populism
The study explores media instrumentalization in Central and Eastern Europe through the perceptions of journalists in Croatia, Hungary, and Slovenia. Authors: Fanni Toth, Mojca Pajnik and Lana Zdravković.
Article / Emotional solidarity: social movements’ framing of migration
The journal Social Movement Studies has published an article by Mojca Pajnik and Marko Ribać on emotional solidarity within social movements in the field of migration.
Article / Authoritarian populism and structural limitations on journalism in selected European countries
A comparative article on the structural limitations of authoritarian populism on journalistic practices in Eastern and Central Europe.
Book / What Kind of Government? Rethinking Contemporary Forms of Government after the Break in Tradition
Springer has published the book What kind of government? Rethinking Contemporary Forms of Government after the Break in Tradition, edited by Vlasta Jalušič and Wolfgang Heuer.
Chapter / Multiple interacting migration patterns in senior care on Europe’s semi-periphery
The authors argue that semi-peripheral countries act as complex nodes of care migration where emigration, transit and immigration interact.
Article / Borderless fear? How right-wing populism aligns in affectively framing migration as a security threat in Austria and Slovenia
The findings point to a worrying convergence of anti-migration discourse across borders and to the potential spread of a right-wing populist bloc unified by fear of migration.