This bachelor’s thesis examines Prežihov Voranc’s collection of travel writings Struggle on Foreign Soil (Borba na tujih tleh), published in 1946. It explores how the author, drawing on his travel experiences in the 1930s, portrays the situation of immigrant workers and their reception in various European countries, with particular emphasis on France. The collection is then compared with Bratko Kreft’s travelogue Among Passengers and Sailors (Med potniki in mornarji), focusing on the way Kreft addresses the social inequalities he witnessed during his travels through Greece and Turkey. In the final part of the thesis, in connection with Prežih’s Struggle on Foreign Soil, we analyze how migrants and immigrant workers were represented in France in the late 1930s. To this end, selected articles from the French newspapers L'Humanité and Le Figaro are examined. Their main themes are compared with Prežih’s observations recorded in his travel writings.
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