Priseljenci: študije o priseljevanju in vključevanju v slovensko družbo

The territory on which the Republic of Slovenia was established in the early 1990s has never been ethnically homogeneous. The number of ethnic minorities, their size and their actual economic and political power have changed over different historical periods, in line with the evolution of political borders and sovereignty over this territory.
The last change in national borders in the early 1990s left Slovenia with a rather heterogeneous mix of non-Slovene ethnic groups. They can be classified into two groups: historical national minorities (the Constitution refers to indigenous national communities without providing a specific explanation of the adjective ‘indigenous’) and ‘new’ national communities. The category of historical national minorities includes the Italian, Hungarian and Roma national communities. The ‘new’ national communities include members of nationalities from the former Yugoslav state who immigrated to Slovenia throughout its existence, particularly intensively from the mid-1960s onwards, mainly for economic reasons.

– from the preface by Miran Komac