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This article presents the case study of a diplomatic – migration experience of a diplomat in bilateral diplomatic practice with an aim to check if there are common characteristics of diplomats and migrants, on the basis of which we could also define diplomats as migrants. Additionally, we try to prove that professional mobility of diplomats between foreign ministry and diplomatic missions is also a specific form of migration and not only mobility as such. Our analysis stems originally from a broader research project, which was concluded among Slovene diplomats, and is upgraded with a personal experience of a Slovene diplomat, who was observed in three different bilateral diplomatic postings

/ environments. This paper brings also a pioneering methodological example, where the observed  and interviewed diplomat is not only an object of a case study, but also an actor of the analysis and interpretation.

KEY WORDS: diplomat, migration, circular migration, temporary migration, bilateral diplomacy

ABSTRACT

This article presents the case study of a diplomatic – migration experience of a diplomat in bilateral diplomatic practice with an aim to check if there are common characteristics of diplomats and migrants, on the basis of which we could also define diplomats as migrants. Additionally, we try to prove that professional mobility of diplomats between foreign ministry and diplomatic missions is also a specific form of migration and not only mobility as such. Our analysis stems originally from a broader research project, which was concluded among Slovene diplomats, and is upgraded with a personal experience of a Slovene diplomat, who was observed in three different bilateral diplomatic postings

/ environments. This paper brings also a pioneering methodological example, where the observed  and interviewed diplomat is not only an object of a case study, but also an actor of the analysis and interpretation.

KEY WORDS: diplomat, migration, circular migration, temporary migration, bilateral diplomacy

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As a result of the opening of internal borders in the EU and the rapid development of affordable navigation technology, there is a constantly increasing number of people from Western Europe in the Mediterranean who have adopted a lifestyle that revolves around living working and travelling on boats. Through ethnography we will reflect on 1) different forms of the liveaboard phenomenon; and 2) contextualize the phenomenon within lifestyle migration theory and discuss overlapping, interweaving and dispersing between cases.

KEY WORDS: lifestyle migration, mobility, liveaboards, Mediterranean Sea

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As a result of the opening of internal borders in the EU and the rapid development of affordable navigation technology, there is a constantly increasing number of people from Western Europe in the Mediterranean who have adopted a lifestyle that revolves around living working and travelling on boats. Through ethnography we will reflect on 1) different forms of the liveaboard phenomenon; and 2) contextualize the phenomenon within lifestyle migration theory and discuss overlapping, interweaving and dispersing between cases.

KEY WORDS: lifestyle migration, mobility, liveaboards, Mediterranean Sea

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In the last two decades, West Africa with its Atlantic coast, the Sahara and various other remote places has become a haven for many people from the Global North, who have adopted mobility as a way of life. Most of them are so-called “housetruckers”, i.e. people travelling and at least temporarily living in cars, jeeps, vans, caravans, buses or trucks converted into mobile homes. They represent a highly diversified group that is sometimes hard to put into any conventional mobility category and deserves more academic attention. The aim of this article is to present the variety of this phenomenon and most of all to call attention to the appearance of a new, largely disregarded and undocumented researchable entity within it, i.e. peripatetic housetruckers, which calls for new theoretical reflection within mobility studies.

KEYWORDS: Mobility, housetruckers, neo-nomadism, new researchable entity, West Africa

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In the last two decades, West Africa with its Atlantic coast, the Sahara and various other remote places has become a haven for many people from the Global North, who have adopted mobility as a way of life. Most of them are so-called “housetruckers”, i.e. people travelling and at least temporarily living in cars, jeeps, vans, caravans, buses or trucks converted into mobile homes. They represent a highly diversified group that is sometimes hard to put into any conventional mobility category and deserves more academic attention. The aim of this article is to present the variety of this phenomenon and most of all to call attention to the appearance of a new, largely disregarded and undocumented researchable entity within it, i.e. peripatetic housetruckers, which calls for new theoretical reflection within mobility studies.

KEYWORDS: Mobility, housetruckers, neo-nomadism, new researchable entity, West Africa

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The attempts to build an Islamic religious and cultural centre (mosque) in Ljubljana have posed a lot  of “glocal” theoretical as well as practical questions. Problems in implementing multiculturalism in apparently open, urban, secular societies are usually interpreted as minor temporary troubles, motivated by not yet surmounted resistance to others and otherness. Doubts in this interpretation are expressed in the text by presenting two cases which reveal that building “alien” houses of worship trigger deeply rooted archetypical fears which prove difficult to control using the rather simple (post)modernist regulative repertoire.

KEY WORDS: tolerance, modern urban society, secularization, multiculturalism

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The attempts to build an Islamic religious and cultural centre (mosque) in Ljubljana have posed a lot  of “glocal” theoretical as well as practical questions. Problems in implementing multiculturalism in apparently open, urban, secular societies are usually interpreted as minor temporary troubles, motivated by not yet surmounted resistance to others and otherness. Doubts in this interpretation are expressed in the text by presenting two cases which reveal that building “alien” houses of worship trigger deeply rooted archetypical fears which prove difficult to control using the rather simple (post)modernist regulative repertoire.

KEY WORDS: tolerance, modern urban society, secularization, multiculturalism

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This article introduces the basis for developing multicultural education in United States of America and intercultural education in Europe. Living together in changing and diverse communities represents a big challenge. Teachers working in schools and students learning in heterogeneous classes can solve this challenge only with an adequate public support, where each individual can develop his/her intercultural competence. A common terminology should be explored together with currently developed concepts and the experience already gained from multicultural and intercultural education. Although professional discussions about multicultural and intercultural education, intercultural competence and interculturality as a teaching concept have also been developed in Slovenia, the gap between a declarative level for multiculturality and the actual (teaching) practices is still considerably wide.

KEY WORDS: intercultural education, multicultural education, intercultural competence, interculturality as a teaching concept

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This article introduces the basis for developing multicultural education in United States of America and intercultural education in Europe. Living together in changing and diverse communities represents a big challenge. Teachers working in schools and students learning in heterogeneous classes can solve this challenge only with an adequate public support, where each individual can develop his/her intercultural competence. A common terminology should be explored together with currently developed concepts and the experience already gained from multicultural and intercultural education. Although professional discussions about multicultural and intercultural education, intercultural competence and interculturality as a teaching concept have also been developed in Slovenia, the gap between a declarative level for multiculturality and the actual (teaching) practices is still considerably wide.

KEY WORDS: intercultural education, multicultural education, intercultural competence, interculturality as a teaching concept