Conceptual frameworks on integration have moved from one to two-way integration, focusing on all residents in integration processes. This paper advocates a conceptual framework for “multi-way integration” (MUWI), which focuses explicitly on residents’ multiple identities and intersectionality to enhance connectivity and mutual understanding between all residents. The discussion also addresses factors impacting this connectivity, including social structures, social mechanisms, artifacts, and environments. The above dimensions and interconnections are not only relevant for researching integration processes but also for developing effective integration strategies.
Keywords: connectivity, migration, social mechanisms, artifacts, structures, environments

Conceptual frameworks on integration have moved from one to two-way integration, focusing on all residents in integration processes. This paper advocates a conceptual framework for “multi-way integration” (MUWI), which focuses explicitly on residents’ multiple identities and intersectionality to enhance connectivity and mutual understanding between all residents. The discussion also addresses factors impacting this connectivity, including social structures, social mechanisms, artifacts, and environments. The above dimensions and interconnections are not only relevant for researching integration processes but also for developing effective integration strategies.
Keywords: connectivity, migration, social mechanisms, artifacts, structures, environments

The article presents an analysis of immigration to Slovenia from (and through) the countries of the former SFRY. The framework of the analysis is an eclectic migration theory model, which synthesizes and upgrades existing migration theories. At the center of the model, the author places the world-systems theory, which is upgraded with findings of other key migration theories. Through the analysis of statistical data and interviews/conversations with experts and practitioners in Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as through the participation in the group for the preparation of the Slovenian Immigration Strategy, the author verifies the findings of the eclectic theoretical model on the case of immigration to Slovenia from (and through) the former SFRY.
Keywords: eclectic migration theory model, SFRY, Slovenia, migration theory

The article presents an analysis of immigration to Slovenia from (and through) the countries of the former SFRY. The framework of the analysis is an eclectic migration theory model, which synthesizes and upgrades existing migration theories. At the center of the model, the author places the world-systems theory, which is upgraded with findings of other key migration theories. Through the analysis of statistical data and interviews/conversations with experts and practitioners in Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as through the participation in the group for the preparation of the Slovenian Immigration Strategy, the author verifies the findings of the eclectic theoretical model on the case of immigration to Slovenia from (and through) the former SFRY.
Keywords: eclectic migration theory model, SFRY, Slovenia, migration theory

The migration experiences of the past often generated financial flows linked to remittances or capital repatriation, whose main market was the private construction sector. It usually consisted of the construction of dwellings intended to complete the conservative project of the return to the homeland and represent the success of the personal career. The article draws on two real estate projects realized in two Swiss towns to show how, for two figures with a migration background from the mid-19th century onwards, the construction sector represented an entrepreneurial strategy based on a different balance between philanthropic idealism and speculative logic.
Keywords: return emigration, emigration induced, construction industry, real estate investments, philanthropy

The migration experiences of the past often generated financial flows linked to remittances or capital repatriation, whose main market was the private construction sector. It usually consisted of the construction of dwellings intended to complete the conservative project of the return to the homeland and represent the success of the personal career. The article draws on two real estate projects realized in two Swiss towns to show how, for two figures with a migration background from the mid-19th century onwards, the construction sector represented an entrepreneurial strategy based on a different balance between philanthropic idealism and speculative logic.
Keywords: return emigration, emigration induced, construction industry, real estate investments, philanthropy

The article looks at the effects of emigration through altruistic and redistributive uses of remittances sent and earnings brought back home by emigrants. Through case studies of altruistic and redistributive mechanisms, it explores the roles of family strategies and processes of commonization through the public administration of legacies and benefices, focusing on testamentary legacies and ecclesiastical benefices created by emigrants in their places of origin in Italian Switzerland during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Keywords: effects of emigration, altruism, charity, philanthropy, family

The article looks at the effects of emigration through altruistic and redistributive uses of remittances sent and earnings brought back home by emigrants. Through case studies of altruistic and redistributive mechanisms, it explores the roles of family strategies and processes of commonization through the public administration of legacies and benefices, focusing on testamentary legacies and ecclesiastical benefices created by emigrants in their places of origin in Italian Switzerland during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Keywords: effects of emigration, altruism, charity, philanthropy, family

This article examines emigration from the Alpine district of Gornji Grad between the late 19th century and the early 20th century, focusing on the interplay between environmental constraints and human agency. It analyzes how hereditary and marriage customs, timber cutting and rafting, and migration functioned as adaptive responses to environmental limitations and as agents for economic diversification. The study also explores the reciprocal effects of migration through financial and social remittances.
Keywords: alpine communities, Gornji Grad, migration, integrated peasant economy, financial and social remittances

This article examines emigration from the Alpine district of Gornji Grad between the late 19th century and the early 20th century, focusing on the interplay between environmental constraints and human agency. It analyzes how hereditary and marriage customs, timber cutting and rafting, and migration functioned as adaptive responses to environmental limitations and as agents for economic diversification. The study also explores the reciprocal effects of migration through financial and social remittances.
Keywords: alpine communities, Gornji Grad, migration, integrated peasant economy, financial and social remittances