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In topical debates on migration and global, world and cosmopolitan citizenship, the article introduces the anarchist idea of translocal citizenship. With its vision of communitarian nomadism, the concept aims at an idea and praxis of municipalized citizenship that is constituted beyond the nation-state, sometimes in opposition to it, but always surpasses the parochial forms of political community that make global connectedness impossible.

KEY WORDS: citizenship, democracy, anarchism, alter-globalization movement, globalization

ABSTRACT

In topical debates on migration and global, world and cosmopolitan citizenship, the article introduces the anarchist idea of translocal citizenship. With its vision of communitarian nomadism, the concept aims at an idea and praxis of municipalized citizenship that is constituted beyond the nation-state, sometimes in opposition to it, but always surpasses the parochial forms of political community that make global connectedness impossible.

KEY WORDS: citizenship, democracy, anarchism, alter-globalization movement, globalization

Book Reviews has been Published in the Slovene Language.

Book Reviews has been Published in the Slovene Language.

Aleksandrinstvo is the general name of the phenomenon of mass emigration from the western Slovenian region of Goriška to Egypt, whose protagonists, aleksandrinke, were young women: widows, wives, and mothers who sought short or long-term employment in Egyptian cities. They mostly worked as chambermaids, cooks, and various other kinds of domestic helpers, frequently as nannies, sometimes as governesses, teachers, and wet nurses. Since the destination of their migration was the port city of Alexandria, at home they were referred to as aleksandrinke – Alexandrian women – and under this name they remain recorded in the collective memory.

Aleksandrinstvo is the general name of the phenomenon of mass emigration from the western Slovenian region of Goriška to Egypt, whose protagonists, aleksandrinke, were young women: widows, wives, and mothers who sought short or long-term employment in Egyptian cities. They mostly worked as chambermaids, cooks, and various other kinds of domestic helpers, frequently as nannies, sometimes as governesses, teachers, and wet nurses. Since the destination of their migration was the port city of Alexandria, at home they were referred to as aleksandrinke – Alexandrian women – and under this name they remain recorded in the collective memory.

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In the article, the emigration of Slovenians to Germany in the 2nd half of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century is presented, and the cooperation of Slovenian organizations in Germany; the main focus is on gatherings. Partial results of the qualitative research are presented, this research is based on the participant observation of the last four gatherings, besides, semi-structured interviews were made with the organisers and the participants of the gatherings. The gatherings of Slovenian organisations in Germany have been organised once a year for twenty years (1996–2015). This special form of cooperation, which surpasses local operations of Slovene organisations, represents for Slovenian emigrants and their descendants an important way of maintaining Slovenian identity, socialising and professional support, at the same time it offers the possibility for connecting Slovenian organisations in Germany with Slovenia.
KEY WORDS: Slovenian emigrants, Germany, gatherings of the Slovenian organizations in Germany, Slovenian associations in Germany, Slovenian classes

ABSTRACT
In the article, the emigration of Slovenians to Germany in the 2nd half of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century is presented, and the cooperation of Slovenian organizations in Germany; the main focus is on gatherings. Partial results of the qualitative research are presented, this research is based on the participant observation of the last four gatherings, besides, semi-structured interviews were made with the organisers and the participants of the gatherings. The gatherings of Slovenian organisations in Germany have been organised once a year for twenty years (1996–2015). This special form of cooperation, which surpasses local operations of Slovene organisations, represents for Slovenian emigrants and their descendants an important way of maintaining Slovenian identity, socialising and professional support, at the same time it offers the possibility for connecting Slovenian organisations in Germany with Slovenia.
KEY WORDS: Slovenian emigrants, Germany, gatherings of the Slovenian organizations in Germany, Slovenian associations in Germany, Slovenian classes

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The paper examines a letter by physician Karol Pečnik from Alexandria, which was published in three issues of the Goriška newspaper Soča in 1897 and focuses to a great extent on Slovenian emigrants in Egypt, the so-called aleksandrinke. Pečnik’s attitude towards migration is not a priori negative, and in contrast to other newspaper reporting on aleksandrinke in those times, moral denunciation is not his primary concern. His main focus is (nationally conscious) women who, while living in a foreign, urban environment, are in great danger of falling through the nationalist dragnet. His letter shows that wo­men who were exposed to foreign elements (at the edge of the “national body”) constituted a potential threat of national contamination and that they were an important element of national(istic) thinking.
KEY WORDS: Karol Pečnik, Egypt, aleksandrinke, female migration, nationalism

ABSTRACT
The paper examines a letter by physician Karol Pečnik from Alexandria, which was published in three issues of the Goriška newspaper Soča in 1897 and focuses to a great extent on Slovenian emigrants in Egypt, the so-called aleksandrinke. Pečnik’s attitude towards migration is not a priori negative, and in contrast to other newspaper reporting on aleksandrinke in those times, moral denunciation is not his primary concern. His main focus is (nationally conscious) women who, while living in a foreign, urban environment, are in great danger of falling through the nationalist dragnet. His letter shows that wo­men who were exposed to foreign elements (at the edge of the “national body”) constituted a potential threat of national contamination and that they were an important element of national(istic) thinking.
KEY WORDS: Karol Pečnik, Egypt, aleksandrinke, female migration, nationalism