News
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International symposium Life Course and Everyday Life of Older People Living in Poverty: Call for abstracts
The symposium will take place on 28-29 November 2024 at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. Deadline: September 15 2024.
Digital Infrastructures of Solidarity on the Balkan Migration Route
As part of the COST project on socio-technical challenges of European migration and border control, a series of workshops and round tables were held on June 25 and 26...
Re-nationalizing Citizenship and Democratic Backsliding: Anti-gender Mobilizations in Central-Eastern Europe
A chapter by Roman Kuhar and Mojca Pajnik on anti-gender mobilization in CEE, arguing that it represent a significant force in society's illiberalization and re-nationalizing citizenship.
Attendance at the 28th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) at Columbia University in New York
At the conference Ana Frank and Veronika Bajt presented the paper on Hate speech, nationalism, migration, and gender in Slovenia.
Consortium meeting of the ECSEuro research project in Tuscany
Discussion on the results of ethnographic studies and the dissemination of research results.
On the future of European democracy with the candidates for the European Parliament elections
The discussion focused on questions about the strengthening of European identity, media freedom and political (non)participation among young people.
Projects
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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...
Empowering Ecosystems of Civil Society Organisations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia and Slovenia (PROSECO)
Promoting EU values and rights by building national and transnational ecosystems of cooperation that protect civic space and increase the resilience of civil society.
JUSTMIG: Sustainable and Socially Just Transnational Sectoral Labour Markets: Industrial Relations and Labour Market Adjustment to the Rise in Temporary Labour Migration
Project combines innovative research and data collection on labour market dynamics of migrant workers in both service and manufacturing sub-sectors across EU Member States and 3 EU candidate countries.
Data Matters: Sociotechnical Challenges of European Migration and Border Control (DATAMIG)
Project aims at supporting interdisciplinary research into the ways that the technological materialities inherent to the datafication of migration and border control may, on account of their black-boxed design,...
The future of social dialogue in the platform economy: The case of Slovenia
The project addresses two problems related to the work in the platform economy: the first concerns the weakened bargaining power of workers under algorithmic management; the second the issue of […]
Research network FRANET
The Peace Institute, as part of the FRANET research network and contractual partner of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), which established the research network, has the task...
Publications
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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.
Chapter / Care Migration in Care Homes for Older People in the European Semi-Periphery Between Slovenia and Former Yugoslav Countries
The authors note that the political economy of care in neoliberal capitalism needs borders and their ambiguity - it needs borders that are both porous and exclusionary.
Article / Konec koncev: konec ali nov začetek? (The End of Ends: The End or a New Beginning?)
The text deals with the specific modality of the end, which manifests itself as a pervasive sense of the constant, imminent and real threat of total destruction of the...
Article / Squatting and direct care for urban space: the case of the Participatory Ljubljana Autonomous Zone (PLAC)
The article deals with the question of how the squatting community understands and implements direct care for urban space in the context of gentrification and elitization of the city.
Article / Theorizing and mapping media ownership networks in authoritarian-populist contexts: a comparative analysis of Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Turkey
The article aims to contribute to the ongoing discussions on authoritarian populism and the media, from the lens of the political economy of ownership.