Editorial for the 60th Issue of the journal Two Homelands, Migration Studies

Abstract

In addition to the authors of the articles and the journal’s editors, various co-funders have undoubtedly been an essential element in this decades-long equation of ongoing publication, making it possible to continue publishing (albeit numerically limited) printed copies of the periodical in the digital age. In the past, the publishing of the journal was financially supported by variously named governmental bodies from the fields of science (the Research Community of Slovenia, the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Slovenia, the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS), and finally, the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS)) and culture (the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, the Slovenian Book Agency). In 2001, the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs also added support through the Government Office for Slovenians Abroad. The latter and the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (ARIS) are loyal financial supporters of the journal even today, for which we thank them.
Randomly, but with a hint of symbolism, the jubilee issue of the magazine Dve domovini / Two Homelands brings a thematic section on mental health and migration. In today’s world of sudden changes and stressful situations, which require extreme adaptation of migrants and communities characterized by migration, this seemingly marginal topic is very relevant and urgently needs scientific consideration. Guest editor Sanja Cukut Krilić (ZRC SAZU, Sociomedical Institute) has selected five articles that address the mental health of migrants from different thematic, methodological, epistemological, and disciplinary perspectives. In the introduction to the thematic section, the editor systematically lists why such topics are increasingly socially relevant, pressing, and attractive for researchers in the social sciences and humanities.