The Slovene Community in Italy and the Covid-19 Pandemic

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ID18954667
AuthorsSara Brezigar (Pedagoška fakulteta Univeze na Primorskem / Faculty of Education , University of Primorska , Cankarjeva 5, 6000 , Slovenia, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume85
Issue85
Pages83-100
Publication date2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTreatises and Documents Journal of Ethnic Studies / Razprave in Gradivo Revija za narodnostna vprašanja (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0354-0286 • E-ISSN: 1854-5181
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.36144/rig85.dec20.83-100
OpenAlexW4391386166
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited6

Italy was the first country of the Western world to experience the outburst of the Covid-19 pandemic, and slowing it down required a swift and sizable adaptation of all aspects of life in Italy. Based on a preliminary qualitative study and relying on existing primary and secondary data sources, the author explores the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Slovene community in Italy. Although the community shared the same fate as the rest of Italy’s population in terms of restrictive measures and limitations to human rights, the author argues that some of the measures had a different, sometimes disproportionate and harmful effect on the community. Similarly, the changes in modus vivendi et operandi of the minority and its members that appeared as a side-effect of the pandemic may alter significantly the functioning of the minority in the future, and wider integration processes in the cross-border region may be slowed down or even reversed

Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Pandemic · Political science · Population · Sociology · Swift · Demography · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Medicine · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Psychology

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