Changing Diets: Eating habits of immigrants from the other former Yugoslavian republics in Slovenia

Authors

  • Luka Zevnik
  • Peter Stankovič

Keywords:

food, ethnicity, nationalism, immigrants, Slovenia

Abstract

A significant minority of immigrants from the other former Yugoslavian republics lives in Slovenia. In research based on qualitative methodology, authors look for possible changes that happened to the immigrants' culinary practices in Slovenia, whereby they are primarily interested in the interpretative schemes that the immigrants employ when reflecting upon these changes. The results show a large amount of pragmatism in relation to the culinary choices, fatalism with respect to the limitations they are encountering in their newly adopted environment, an almost complete absence of nationalist discourses, and an impressive amount of tolerance towards any kind of possible culinary differences.

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Author Biographies

Luka Zevnik

Asistent na Katedri za kulturologijo, Univerza v Ljubljani, FDV, Kardeljeva ploščad 5, SI-1000 Ljubljana

Peter Stankovič

Izredni profesor na Katedri za kulturologijo, Univerza v Ljubljani, FDV, Kardeljeva ploščad 5, SI1000 Ljubljana

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2010-01-01

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Zevnik, L. ., & Stankovič, P. . (2010). Changing Diets: Eating habits of immigrants from the other former Yugoslavian republics in Slovenia. Two Homelands, (31). Retrieved from https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/twohomelands/article/view/11056

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No. 31 (2010)

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