Between 8 and 10 September, the staff of the Institute for Ethnic Issues attended the 29th international conference National Minorities, Migration and Security, which took place on Brijuni. The conference was organized by the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, the Centre for International and Security Studies of the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, the Institute for Ethnic Issues, the Academic Network for Cooperation in Southeast Europe, and the Office for Human Rights and the Rights of National Minorities of the Government of the Republic of Croatia.
At the three-day conference, the staff of the INV presented various research topics they are working on.
Mitja Žagar, PhD presented the paper Open including public dialogue as an instrument for better democratic decision-making and greater legitimacy in crisis management at the thematic panel of the LEGITUMULT project, in which he presented the results of the LEGITUMULT project, implemented within the framework of the Horizon programme.
At the panel National Minorities and Democratic Societies, Lara Sorgo, PhD with the paper Kin-State or Outdated Construct? The Concept of the Kin-State Among the Members of the Italian National Community in Slovenia, written in collaboration with Boštjan Udovič, PhD, and Damir Josipovič, PhD with the paper Lowering Number of National Minorities’ Members in the Former Yugoslav Area: Contrasting Political-Geographical Divisions and Minority Positions Across the Yugoslav Successor States.
Romana Bešter, PhD presented the paper Between Inclusion and Exclusion: Immigrants in Slovenia’s Welfare System, co-authored with Mojca Medvešek, PhD and Janez Pirc, PhD as part of the ARIS project Inclusion of Immigrants in the Social Security System in Slovenia: Analysis of Statistical Indicators, Policies, Public Opinion and Media Reporting.
