The formation of the independent Republic of Slovenia is marked by the administrative erasure of 25,671 citizens of other republics of the former Yugoslavia who had the status of permanent residents in Slovenia. These persons did not apply for Slovenian citizenship within the given deadline or their application was rejected, as the possibility of maintaining their original citizenship and permanent residence was not considered. In this way, Slovenian citizenship was given the function of exclusion from political community based on nationality and political loyalty. The erasure had no legal basis, and the sovereign management of the ministry was carried out because of the legal gap in the Aliens Act through by-laws such as official dispatches from the ministry. These included instructions on editing residency records, destroying identity documents, and instructing police officers to expel persons without legal status. With the erasure of the permanent address, the erased lost their right of residence and fell into a situation of statelessness. Erasure as an act of excommunication represents the constitution of a national sovereign authority and a political community, the boundary of which was determined by erasure. Namely, the nationalist-motivated administrative erasure set an internal boundary of the community and a projection of the exterior in the erased through the act of exclusion. Erasure as an act of sovereign authority established an absolute difference within society that did not take into account the circumstances of the persons affected, as there were 5,360 minors among the erased. Sovereign administrative governance based on nationalist demographic policies in the form of loss of rights and expulsion has thus affected persons regardless of their age, family situation or situation in their war-torn countries.
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