The perceptions of Slovenian integration policies

Researchers at the Slovenian Migration Institute (SMI) at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), as partners of the Institute for Ethnic Studies in the project Perceptions of Slovenian integration policy within the Target Research Program called Competitiveness of Slovenia for the period from September 1, 2004 to February 28, 2006, covered the research topic of Reintegration of Slovenian emigrants and their descendants in Slovenia. During the first Targeted Research Project, which ended in the fall of 2004, we focused mainly on the population of returnees from Argentina after 1990. In the second period, we upgraded the initial study by analytically placing the problem of return migration in a broader context through a synchronic and diachronic perspective. This means that we extended the problem in a historical sense to the entire period after the Second World War - and in addition to economic repatriation, we also thematized the period of repatriation immediately after the Second World War. In the analysis of the present project, we tried to cover returnees from other countries in addition to returnees from Argentina. The new part of the discussion also includes an analytical-theoretical thematization and evaluation of the phenomenon of repatriation or re-emigration. The results of the research are published in the scientific monograph - Back home? Return migrations between policy, practice and theory, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, 2006.