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Gendered Migration and the Social Integration of Migrants in Slovenia
ers who support the inclusion of migrant children were to be employed full
time (instead of on temporary projects) and if concrete learning objectives
and teaching content that tackles those topics were to be included in multi-
perspective syllabuses, including in academic programmes (Vižintin, 2018;
Torpey, 2000; Aragones & Salgado, 2018).
‘As active citizens, teachers should respond to prejudices and discrimina-
tion in their (school) environments and through their knowledge and activi-
ties promote the development of intercultural education. A significant part of
this involves the development of intercultural dialogue at their educational
institution and in the local community, in line with genuine diversity (multi-
lingualism, multi-ethnicity, multi-religiosity) and, importantly, together with
the immigrants’ (Vižintin, 2018, p. 98).
Central Integration Barriers
The welfare state is withdrawing to the market and market relations, but the
fundamental area of activity is the everyday world of people, the everyday
interaction with people different than ‘we’ are. It is precisely in this context
that the power and adaptability of ethnic and national identity models ex-
press themselves.
We express them through everyday expressions, phrases, jokes, ambigui-
ties. When it is a matter of everyday situations and our responses to fleeting
encounters with others, prejudices seem harmless, innocent. At such times,
we hardly notice them – exactly because they are so quotidian. But it is these
everyday prejudices that have the unsettling quality that they very soon
reach epidemic proportions. Prejudices are then transformed into tools of ag-
gression, they presage lynching, excuse all sorts of discrimination, persecu-
tion, witch hunts or the leaving of threatened groups to their ‘fate.’ In this way,
the status quo in a given society is supported, rationalised and legitimised.
The main obstacles to integration, especially when it comes to female mi-
grants, are psychological and economic. They are chiefly seen in the pres-
ence of prejudice, stereotypes, poor knowledge of the situation, ignorance
of the problem, and ignorance in general. Moreover, in research we are often
dealing with the presence of prejudice and stereotypes, about economic mi-
grants, whom Slovenia urgently needs, and even more about refugees from
Syria and Afghanistan.
Gendering Migration – Gendering Identities
Today’s divide or border between the foreign and the domestic, exacerbated
by rapidly growing immigration into Europe, which still has to be essentially
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ers who support the inclusion of migrant children were to be employed full
time (instead of on temporary projects) and if concrete learning objectives
and teaching content that tackles those topics were to be included in multi-
perspective syllabuses, including in academic programmes (Vižintin, 2018;
Torpey, 2000; Aragones & Salgado, 2018).
‘As active citizens, teachers should respond to prejudices and discrimina-
tion in their (school) environments and through their knowledge and activi-
ties promote the development of intercultural education. A significant part of
this involves the development of intercultural dialogue at their educational
institution and in the local community, in line with genuine diversity (multi-
lingualism, multi-ethnicity, multi-religiosity) and, importantly, together with
the immigrants’ (Vižintin, 2018, p. 98).
Central Integration Barriers
The welfare state is withdrawing to the market and market relations, but the
fundamental area of activity is the everyday world of people, the everyday
interaction with people different than ‘we’ are. It is precisely in this context
that the power and adaptability of ethnic and national identity models ex-
press themselves.
We express them through everyday expressions, phrases, jokes, ambigui-
ties. When it is a matter of everyday situations and our responses to fleeting
encounters with others, prejudices seem harmless, innocent. At such times,
we hardly notice them – exactly because they are so quotidian. But it is these
everyday prejudices that have the unsettling quality that they very soon
reach epidemic proportions. Prejudices are then transformed into tools of ag-
gression, they presage lynching, excuse all sorts of discrimination, persecu-
tion, witch hunts or the leaving of threatened groups to their ‘fate.’ In this way,
the status quo in a given society is supported, rationalised and legitimised.
The main obstacles to integration, especially when it comes to female mi-
grants, are psychological and economic. They are chiefly seen in the pres-
ence of prejudice, stereotypes, poor knowledge of the situation, ignorance
of the problem, and ignorance in general. Moreover, in research we are often
dealing with the presence of prejudice and stereotypes, about economic mi-
grants, whom Slovenia urgently needs, and even more about refugees from
Syria and Afghanistan.
Gendering Migration – Gendering Identities
Today’s divide or border between the foreign and the domestic, exacerbated
by rapidly growing immigration into Europe, which still has to be essentially
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