PhD in Sociology, Principal Research Associate, Associate Professor
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mirjam.milharcic-hladnik@zrc-sazu.si
Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik is a Principal Research Associate at the Slovenian Migration Institute at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Associate Professor at the University of Nova Gorica. She is a sociologist by training, specializing in migration and women's studies. In the field of women's studies, she analyses gender inequality and historical cases of erased socially and politically important women in Slovenia, as well as migrant women. In the field of migration studies, she is interested in interdisciplinary approaches and is a passionate researcher of ego documents, migrant correspondences and life stories. Since 2011, she has been a member of the Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree in Migration and Intercultural Relations (EMMIR), where she is also a lecturer. She is the screenwriter of the documentary film Američanke (100% Slovenian) and co-author of the exhibition Achievements of American Slovenians: a contribution to the cultures of two homelands. From 2015 to 2023, she was Editor-in-Chief of the international scientific journal Dve domovini / Two Homelands, http://twohomelands.zrc-sazu.si/en/main/index.
Fields of work: women migrants and work, auto/biographical and narrative research, human rights and integration
KALC, Aleksej, MILHARČIČ-HLADNIK, Mirjam, ŽITNIK SERAFIN, Janja. 2024. Daring dreams of the future, Slovenian mass migrations 1870-1945. Berlin [etc.]: P. Lang, Thought, society, culture, vol. 5, DOI: 10.3726/b21284.
MILHARČIČ-HLADNIK, Mirjam. 2021. "People cannot live on love alone": negotiating love, gender roles, and family care between Slovenia and Egypt. V: BORGES, Marcelo J. (ur.), CANCIAN, Sonia (ur.), REEDER, Linda (ur.). Emotional landscapes : love, gender, and migration, (Studies of world migrations). Urbana; Chicago; Springfield: University of Illinois Press, str. 57-74. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/35wqz6dz9780252043499.html
KALC, Aleksej, MILHARČIČ-HLADNIK, Mirjam, ŽITNIK SERAFIN, Janja. Doba velikih migracij na Slovenskem, (Migracije, 30). 2020. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC SAZU. https://isim.zrc-sazu.si/sl/publikacije/doba-velikih-migracij-na-slovenskem#v
MILHARČIČ-HLADNIK, Mirjam. 2020. Kolektivna izkušnja prebežništva in drugih oblik izseljevanja mladih po drugi svetovni vojni v pisnih, ustnih in drugih avto/biografskih virih. Dve domovini : razprave o izseljenstvu, št. 51, str. 151-166, http://twohomelands.zrc-sazu.si/uploads/articles/1582913804_Hladnik_Kolektivna%20izku%C5%A1nja%20prebe%C5%BEni%C5%A1tva.pdf, doi: 10.3986/dd.2020.1.09.
MILHARČIČ-HLADNIK, Mirjam. 2016. Nadzor nad nadzorom: strategije upiranja in avtonomnost delovanja migrantk v sodobni in zgodovinski perspektivi. Dve domovini : razprave o izseljenstvu, št. 43, str. 35-46. http://twohomelands.zrc-sazu.si/uploads/articles/1453571436_Nadzor_nad_nadzorom_HLADNIK.pdf
MILHARČIČ-HLADNIK, Mirjam. 2015. Kultura mešanosti v nacionalnem in migracijskem kontekstu. Annales: anali za istrske in mediteranske študije, Series historia et sociologia, letn. 25, 1, str. 171-182. https://zdjp.si/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Annales-SHS-25-2015-1_LOWRES.pdf
MILHARČIČ-HLADNIK, Mirjam (ur.). 2015. From Slovenia to Egypt: Aleksandrinke’s Trans-Mediterranean Domestic Workers’ Migration and National Imagination. Gottingen: V&R Unipress. https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/literatur-sprach-und-kulturwissenschaften/interdisziplinaere-geisteswissenschaft/14899/from-slovenia-to-egypt?number=UNI0002137
MILHARČIČ-HLADNIK, Mirjam, MLEKUŽ, Jernej (ur.). 2014. Going places : Slovenian women's stories on migration. Akron: University of Akron Press. https://blogs.uakron.edu/uapress/product/going-places/
MILHARČIČ-HLADNIK, Mirjam. 2009. Long live America, where women are first!. V: LUKŠIČ-HACIN, Marina (ur.), MLEKUŽ, Jernej (ur.). Go girls! : when Slovenian women left home, (Migracije, Migrantke, 19, 2). Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, str. 109-132. https://isim.zrc-sazu.si/sl/publikacije/go-girls#v
MILHARČIČ-HLADNIK, Mirjam. 2009. From a dollar bill in an envelope to a petition to the White House: the significance of Slovenian migrants for those back home. V: BRUNNBAUER, Ulf (ur.). Transnational societies, transterritorial politics: migrations in the (Post) Yugoslav region : 19th-21st century, (Südosteuropäische Arbeiten, 141). München: R. Oldenbourg, str. 193-212.
OUT SIDE IN – Inclusive Adult Education for Refugees (international project • September 1, 2015 - August 1, 2018)
The Current and Required Representation of the Topic of Slovenian Emigration in Curricula of Primary and Secondary Schools within the Republic of Slovenia – A Conceptual Framework to Re-Evaluate the Role of the Topic of Emigration in Curricula of Primary (target research project • April 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019)
Social, economic and cultural history of Slovenian emigration (1945–1991) (fundamental research project • May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2020)
Only (with) others are we (applied project • May 13, 2016 - September 30, 2021)
Migration and social transformation in comparative perspective: the case of Western Slovenia after WWII (fundamental project • September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2023)
National and Cultural Identity of Slovenian Emigration in the Context of Migration Studies (research programme • January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2027)