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The key event in the country's contemporary history is the milestone year of 1991 when Slovenia gained independence. After this period, the entire process of creating migration policy started, although it cannot be said that Slovenia had no previous experience with migration outflow and inflow. On the contrary, Slovenia was the territory of immigration from other parts of former Yugoslavia. At the same time, many Slovenes emigrated to the Western countries as « guest workers ». Another important influence in the creation of Slovene migration policy is the involvement in the European integration processes. The contemporary migration policies are in the jaws of European and national realpolitik of controlling the migration on one hand, and demand to respect human rights and the implementation of humanitarian principles on the other; the latter being a position represented as "the public policy of non-governmental organisations”.
In fact this booklet is part of a product of comprehensive research and analysis of migration trends in each of six participating EU accession countries: Poland (N°3), the Czech Republic (N°2), Slovakia (N°5), Slovenia (N°6), Romania (N°4) and Bulgaria (N°1). |
