Slovenian Migration Institute at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences (SMI SRC SASA) is involved into interdisciplinary research of migration processes in Slovenia and in the international environment. Researchers are focused on emigration and immigration studies, analyses of return migration, ethnicity, migration policies and different methodological and theoretic research approaches to migration. Their disciplines span from humanities to social sciences – from historiography, literary history, ethnology, anthropology, cultural studies, political studies and art history. They are involved in international projects and strive to compare their own research with similar Slovenian and foreign researches.
SMI SRC SASA is issuing the international scientific journal Dve domovini/Two Homelands and the Monograph series Migracije (Migrations). SMI also organises international symposiums and consultations on the topic of emigration and immigration, culture and education. Researchers present their research results at public lectures, exhibitions, with films and other visual materials. Individual researchers cooperate with various educational institutions and are therefore actively included in education process on migrations issues. Researchers of SMI SRC SASA have together with University of Nova Gorica and three other partner institutions from Norway, Portugal and Germany developed an international MA study in Migration and Intercultural Relations.
Other fields of research include emigration (Slovenians around the world), immigration, return migrations and migration policy, culture and art (cultural heritage and its digitalisation, emigration and immigration literature, fine-art), history of emigration, spatial, ethnic, cultural, gender and professional identity, acculturation, socialisation, re-socialisation, multiculturalism, assimilation, re-integration, forced or political migrations, emigrant communities, descendants of emigrants, life stories, women studies, literature and return migration, contemporary labour migrations.
Slovenian Migration Institute SRC SASA cooperates with the following institutions and associations:
AEMI – Association of European Migration Institutions
The Society for Slovene Studies
University of Stavanger
The Norwegian Emigration Center, Stavanger
University of Nova Gorica
Slovenian Research Agency
Office of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for Slovenes Abroad
Slovene Ethnographic Museum
The National Education Institute
Since September 2008 the Institute has been a recognized research institution of the special portal for Slovenians abroad.
Since November 2009 the Institute has been a part of The International Network of Migration Institutions that includes museums and other institutions promoting the public understanding of migration.
