This master's thesis focuses on the changing attitudes towards immigrants from the former common state of Yugoslavia in three historically, socio-culturally and politically diverse periods; namely, the period of the SFR of Yugoslavia, the time of the disintegration of the SFR of Yugoslavia and the Slovenian independence, and the modern time when Slovenia entered the EU. In the theoretical part, with the support of a historical and an anthropological analysis, the thesis focuses on the processes of differentiation, exclusion and rejection of immigrants from the former common Yugoslavia in Slovenia, taking into account the key concepts concerning the post-Yugoslav Balkanism. It analyses the narratives of members of three generations and their experience of changes in the Slovenian environment. The field research includes both first-generation immigrants as well as the descendants of immigrants and their children, with an emphasis on different migration experiences and diverse understandings, undergoing migration, and self-identification of the speakers. I pay particular attention to the questions of how the subjects reflect on their own identity and how they preserve the possible idea of themselves as the Other in Slovenian society. In a broader sense, the thesis aims to shed light on the direct influence of notions and ideas about the Yugoslav Other on the self-understanding of individuals who encounter differentiation in everyday life and in the Slovenian public discourse.
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