Book Review is published on SLO pages.

Book Review is published on SLO pages.

The article reflects the identity transformations in the life story of Anne Urbancic, a long-term professor of Italian at the University of Toronto. The reconstruction of her story is based on an interview aimed to elucidate her complex immigrant heri­tage and on various publications about her cultural identity in Canada. Her accounts emerging over the last two decades demonstrate identity as a constantly evolving process, stemming a great deal from the internal perception of the outer world. In these terms, her humanistic mindset and sharpened social sensibilities turned out to be of utmost importance.
KEYWORDS: Canada, Slovenians, migration, identity, life story

The article reflects the identity transformations in the life story of Anne Urbancic, a long-term professor of Italian at the University of Toronto. The reconstruction of her story is based on an interview aimed to elucidate her complex immigrant heri­tage and on various publications about her cultural identity in Canada. Her accounts emerging over the last two decades demonstrate identity as a constantly evolving process, stemming a great deal from the internal perception of the outer world. In these terms, her humanistic mindset and sharpened social sensibilities turned out to be of utmost importance.
KEYWORDS: Canada, Slovenians, migration, identity, life story

The article discusses the representations of Islam and Muslims in Slovenian primary school textbooks. The critical discursive analysis focuses on four thematic emphases around which such representations are concentrated: security and violence, geo­graphical and cultural placement, the role of women and gender relations, and the contribution of Muslims to the development of Western civilization. A comprehensive analysis reveals that a multitude of minor biases and/or exaggerations in the absence of certain themes and/or visual illustrations together form a distorted representation that reproduces certain stereotypes as well as ancient fears of Muslims and Islam.
KEYWORDS: Islam, Muslims, primary school textbooks, representations, stereotype

The article discusses the representations of Islam and Muslims in Slovenian primary school textbooks. The critical discursive analysis focuses on four thematic emphases around which such representations are concentrated: security and violence, geo­graphical and cultural placement, the role of women and gender relations, and the contribution of Muslims to the development of Western civilization. A comprehensive analysis reveals that a multitude of minor biases and/or exaggerations in the absence of certain themes and/or visual illustrations together form a distorted representation that reproduces certain stereotypes as well as ancient fears of Muslims and Islam.
KEYWORDS: Islam, Muslims, primary school textbooks, representations, stereotype

The authors explore the attitudes of residents of Kostel and Osilnica, two Slovenian municipalities bordering Croatia, toward people on the move. In this area, immigrants attempt to cross the border in large numbers; hence, the contact between the local population and the immigrants is more regular than elsewhere. The authors explore how the attitudes of locals living near the border compare to those of the general population of Slovenia and whether these attitudes are correlated with gender, age, education, and religion. The authors contextualize this micro-study, based on surveying in Kostel and Osilnica in 2020, within the large-scale surveying of Slovenia as a whole (Slovenian Public Opinion Survey).
KEYWORDS: people on the move, migrants, migrations, migrant crisis, Slovenian-Croatian border

The authors explore the attitudes of residents of Kostel and Osilnica, two Slovenian municipalities bordering Croatia, toward people on the move. In this area, immigrants attempt to cross the border in large numbers; hence, the contact between the local population and the immigrants is more regular than elsewhere. The authors explore how the attitudes of locals living near the border compare to those of the general population of Slovenia and whether these attitudes are correlated with gender, age, education, and religion. The authors contextualize this micro-study, based on surveying in Kostel and Osilnica in 2020, within the large-scale surveying of Slovenia as a whole (Slovenian Public Opinion Survey).
KEYWORDS: people on the move, migrants, migrations, migrant crisis, Slovenian-Croatian border

The article discusses people smuggling within the European border regime, namely, the right to asylum, the demonization of smugglers, and the paradox of the criminalization of solidarity. As a commercial, illegal service, people smuggling can be seen as the opposite of solidarity with people on the move. Anti-smuggling laws blur their differences since the material benefit of helping people on the move does not qualify as criminal activity. The author presents the embeddedness of the smuggling-solidarity antagonism within the context of violent borders and state persecution. She concludes that solidarity practices are protests against, whereas smuggling is the effect of violent borders.
KEYWORDS: migration, violent borders, asylum, solidarity, people smuggling, activism

The article discusses people smuggling within the European border regime, namely, the right to asylum, the demonization of smugglers, and the paradox of the criminalization of solidarity. As a commercial, illegal service, people smuggling can be seen as the opposite of solidarity with people on the move. Anti-smuggling laws blur their differences since the material benefit of helping people on the move does not qualify as criminal activity. The author presents the embeddedness of the smuggling-solidarity antagonism within the context of violent borders and state persecution. She concludes that solidarity practices are protests against, whereas smuggling is the effect of violent borders.
KEYWORDS: migration, violent borders, asylum, solidarity, people smuggling, activism