[BRIEF NOTE] Slovenes and Argentina
Apr. 1st, 2005 10:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldVia the LAIBACH-NSK Yahoo discussion group, I've just learned that not only has Slavoj Zizek married Argentine model and philosophy student Analia Hounie (photographed with her husband here), but that he has announced (Slovene-language) his plans to emigrate there because of the defeat of his favoured Slovenia's Liberal Democratic Party in the November 2004 elections.
Before becoming, from the 1950s on, a country of net immigratino as this IOM report (PDF format) describes, Slovenia saw substantial emigration. In Primorje--the coastal territories of the modern-day Republic of Slovenia--emigration became particularly heavy in the interwar era, when the large minority of Italian Slovenes was persecuted. Many of these Slovenes emigrated to Argentina, then as now a major destination for immigrants, to be joined after the Second World War by anti-Communist Slovenes. Currently, some fifty thousand self-identified ethnic Slovenes live in Argentina, though assimilation and return emigration might well cut into these numbers. Until Zizek, this community's most prominent scion was Andrej Bajuk, Slovenia's Prime Minister from May to November 2000.
Before becoming, from the 1950s on, a country of net immigratino as this IOM report (PDF format) describes, Slovenia saw substantial emigration. In Primorje--the coastal territories of the modern-day Republic of Slovenia--emigration became particularly heavy in the interwar era, when the large minority of Italian Slovenes was persecuted. Many of these Slovenes emigrated to Argentina, then as now a major destination for immigrants, to be joined after the Second World War by anti-Communist Slovenes. Currently, some fifty thousand self-identified ethnic Slovenes live in Argentina, though assimilation and return emigration might well cut into these numbers. Until Zizek, this community's most prominent scion was Andrej Bajuk, Slovenia's Prime Minister from May to November 2000.
