Damir Josipovič

• PhD in Social (Human) Geography and Demography
• Senior Researcher at Institute for Ethnic Studies (IES)

The paper discusses the impact of recent socio-economic and geopolitical changes on cultural ties and ethnic identity formation in the wider area of Čabar, Croatia. It emphasises the importance of understanding the historical context of cross-border relations in this geographically peripheral border region. To assess the specific position of relati...

Današnji rusko-ukrajinski konflikt ima daljšo predzgodovino kot posledico geopolitične umestitve Ukrajine in Rusije v mednarodni prostor po razpadu Sovjetske zveze, ki je dosegla vrhunec z izbruhom prve vojne leta 2014, po kateri je Rusija enostransko anektirala polotok Krim. Notranja nasprotja v Ukrajini so se stopnjevala s konfliktom v Donbazu, k...

The book is a comprehensive study of voluntary and forced migration in Slovenia and the organisation of the Slovenian diaspora around the world in the period 1945-1991. For the first time in one place, the monograph presents the social, economic and cultural aspects of Slovenian emigration from the end of the Second World War to the independence of...

The article introduces the tentative concept of deep aging-a label used for a situation when the overall ageing effects of the second demographic transition, due to fertility below replacement level, are topped by the excessive emigration of the fertile contingent (additional loss of active population). Deep ageing thus accelerates population decli...

The article elaborates on the concept of deep aging where the overall aging effects of the second demographic transition are topped by the emigration of fertile contingent. The cases of former Yugoslav states and Albania are juxtaposed to enlighten the different demographic paths after the break-up of Yugoslavia. In the meantime, ever more pronounc...

The paper discusses the COVID-19 mortality in Slovenia and Croatia in 2020 and 2021. The aim of the paper is to determine similarities and differences in mortality trends during COVID-19 period and to discuss the underlying causes and consequences. It is hypothesised that the unfavourable age structure of both countries was a catalyst of the excess...

Članek predstavlja analitski prikaz številčnega razvoja hrvaškega prebivalstva v Sloveniji in v specifičnih območjih večje številčne zastopanosti v slovensko-hrvaškem obmejnem pasu ob hrvaški meji med Pomurjem in Slovensko Istro. Avtor analizira območja poselitve Hrvatov na podlagi podatkov popisa prebivalstva in glede na zgodovinsko ter tradiciona...

Riverine environments is an interactive StotyMap (https://riverchange.zrc-sazu.si/) that maps and portrays how changes and continuities of Vjosa (Albania) and Mura (Slovenia) rivers are spatialised in the riverine landscapes and embodied in the daily lives of the people who inhabit them. In the last decade, due to the golden rush on the rivers of...

Prispevek predstavlja oris prostorskega razvoja rabe prekmurskega jezika in kvantifikacijo prekmurščine v obdobju ob razpadu SFRJ. Ob zadnjem jugoslovanskem popisu iz leta 1991 je bila v Sloveniji prekmurščina uradna popisna jezikovna kategorija. Prebivalstvo Prekmurja se je v veliki meri opredeljevalo za prekmurščino v smislu »pogovornega jezika v...

Članek govori o slovensko-hrvaški meji na njenem skrajnem severovzhodnem odseku, ki ga označuje tok reke Mure oz. širše območje pomurskega dela meje. Avtor v članku razpravlja o meji na Muri, o njeni vlogi v današnjem mejnem sporu, kakor tudi o vlogi te meje pri konstruiranju slovenskega in hrvaškega etničnega prostora. Prikazana je analiza mejnih...

Prispevek predstavlja analizo presežne smrtnosti vSloveniji v letu 2020 z vidika pričakovane smrtnosti kot posledicečedalje neugodnejše starostne strukture prebivalstva v Sloveniji.Ugotavlja, da je mogoče nepojasnjenim vzrokom smrti na novopripisati namesto 3.126 (po podatkih NIJZ) le 2.626 smrtnih žrtev,ki pa se lahko pripišejo prezgodnjim smrtnim...

Prispevek predstavlja analizo presežne smrtnosti vSloveniji v letu 2020 z vidika pričakovane smrtnosti kot posledicečedalje neugodnejše starostne strukture prebivalstva v Sloveniji.Ugotavlja, da je mogoče nepojasnjenim vzrokom smrti na novopripisati namesto 3.126 (po podatkih NIJZ) le 2.626 smrtnih žrtev,ki pa se lahko pripišejo prezgodnjim smrtnim...

Trianonska pogodba je leta 1920 mejo med novoustanovljeno Kraljevino Srbov, Hrvatov in Slovencev in Madžarsko postavila na netipično, nizko razvodje med Rabo in Veliko Krko ter tako oddelila devet naselij sklenjenega prekmursko govorečega območja ob Rabi od preostanka Prekmurja. Pogodba ni prepričljivo utemeljila izbora takšne razmejitve, ki danes...

Vpliv Jovana Cvijića na današnjo podobo slovenske nacije, njene geografske in prostorske razsežnosti, vključno z določanjem meje v prostoru in času, kot tudi znaten vpliv njegove znanstvene širine na vodilne slovenske geografe srede 20. stoletja je v Sloveniji skoraj neznan in zato neprepoznan. Zato članek najprej predstavlja institucionalizacijo s...

This paper presents new data on the age structure of hospitalised SARI (severe acute respiratory infection) patients, with or without COVID-19, broken down by gender, place of infection, and region. The leading hypothesis that COVID-19 deaths are overestimated despite the high share of excess deaths was confirmed, bringing to light the important is...

The article examines how the initial Covid-19 spread reached Slovenia, how the infections are distributed across the Slovenian regions, and what disparities can be traced in municipalities, especially along the Croatian and Austrian borders. Furthermore, it identifies the demographic groups most affected by the restrictive measures as well as by SA...

Poveznice između Slavonije i Slovenije su stare zapravo koliko i samo geografsko nazivlje danas, evo, odvojenih područja. Uopćeni latinsko-grčki pojam Sclavonia / Sclavinia primjenjivao se na područje bez izrazitoga vrhnjega sloja dominantne klase. Tako je, u geografskome smislu, došlo najprije do isticanja slavenstva u obliku slovenstva ili slavon...

Changes in Ethnic, Migration and Education Structure of the Urban Municipality of Ljubljana - the Comparison of Censuses of 1991, 2002, and 2015 The article deals with the comparison of the censuses of 1991, 2002, and 2015 data. It analyzes the changes of ethnic, migration and educational structure of the Urban Municipality of Ljubljana. While sta...

The article deals with the comparison of the censuses of 1991, 2002, and 2015 data. It analyzes the changes of ethnic, migration and educational structure of the Urban Municipality of Ljubljana. While stating that the classical analysis of the data on ethnicity, language, and religion within the census data is not possible any more, the author pres...

Abstract and key-words: This contribution deals with the impact of Jovan Cvijić to the modern perception of the Slovene ethnicity, its geographical and spatial dimension including boundary setting in place and time, as well as huge impression of the leading Slovenian geographers with Cvijić’s scientific breadth. First, it sets the today’s Slovenia...

Albania has experienced one of the Europe's highest population migration rates in recent decades. At the same time, the landscape of this country has very dynamic geomorphological behaviour (erosion and ground subsidence), as an effect of various drivers. This paper examines the correlation between the population migrations and geomorphological dyn...

Excerpt from the conclusion: Syria suffered from the externally imposed boundaries. The secretive 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement presupposed a French-controlled predominantly Sunni province stretching from Damascus to Mosul but was denied the access to the sea. The 1920 Sèvres Accord guaranteed Syria the Mediterranean coast but denied the control over...

The aim of the present work is to assess and analyse the emigration of highly educated persons from Slovenia as part of the recent migration trends within the context of labour force mobility. The studied materials, including the official statistical data and other project findings allow for new insights, particularly when deliberating the regional...

Since the outbreak of the economic crisis back in 2008 there has not been invented anything near the lasting solution. Spawned from the so-called financial bubble, triggered by the real-estate crisis in the USA, the current crisis took over the shape of a deep recession with hardly any reasonable explanation on how to go on. Many political and othe...

The aim of the article is to integrally assess the demographic changes after 1990. It is presumed that considerable variations exist in terms of intensity of demographic processes. The following analyses encompassed the relevant national or regional statistics, employing methodological adjustment in order to enable data comparison. Herewith, the ch...

The article outlines the waves of migration to Slovenia after World War II. The author explains the changes to the ethnic structure of Slovenia's population from the aspect of the impact of internal Yugoslav migrations. He presents the main ethnic groups in Slovenia and their migration hinterland. He also explains the reasons behind immigration and...

The article critically examines censuses in the Republic of Slovenia. Owing to its Yugoslav past, the censuses after 1945 have been closely scrutinized, and the common Yugoslav census methodology had a strong influence on the 1991 and 2002 censuses. The 1991 enumeration was carried out within the Yugoslav state; however the data processing and resu...

The contribution presents findings from the research on a constitution of new ethnic identities in Alps-Adriatic region. The key question dealt here with was to which extent the recent demographical processes impact the peripheral, mountainous, and ethnically specific cross-border region between Slovenia and Italy. In lay and professional discourse...

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Migration theory has been dichotomised from several different analytical perspectives. The aim of this article is to view migration movements in a holistic scheme taking into account the geographical factors shaping migration patterns at both the point of origin and destination, rather than on the conceptualizations involving the built-in dualisms....

O teorijah migracij imamo na voljo zajetno literaturo, verjetno najobsežnejšo, če govorimo o teorijah, ki razlagajo temeljne demografske komponente, kot so nataliteta, mortaliteta in migracije. Čeprav je seznam teorij migracij nenavadno obsežen, ostajajo teorije nezmožne celostno razložiti tako kompleksen pojav, kot je človeška mobilnost (cf. Masse...

Boundary-making in Istria is an old undertaking. It has actually never ceasesed, not even today. Istrian peninsula has thus undergone substantial boundary shifts during the last couple of centuries (especially after the Venetian demise in 1797). But Istria carries its worldwide fame also due to one of probably the harshest disputes on the post-war...

This chapter argues that recent socio-economic transitions have led to the erosion of solidarity in post-socialist countries, where economic imperatives of capitalism have pressed governments to relinquish previous legal provisions, particularly in relation to local labour markets. Five types of accommodation to this kind of transgression are disti...

This valuable collection is the first to identify how social solidarity across Europe is being re-invented from below and redefined from above.

As Europe's public realms face upheaval, this book identifies how social solidarity is being reinvented from below and redefined from above. Interdisciplinary transnational approaches provide new insights into the relationship between national and transnational social solidarity across Europe. The book reveals social solidarity as the defining pill...

ABSTRACT (p. 135) and SUMMARY (pp. 147-148) Through exploring politically motivated settlement into the strategically important areas of multi-ethnic countries, this article deals with the presence of Slovenes in the former Austro-Hungarian territory of ex-Yugoslavia. Apart from a comparative analysis of census methodologies, which had recorded dat...

The scientific appeal of theorizing globalization lies in its range, its spectrum, but also in its unembraceability. Supposedly, one can perceive the global effects of a given analytically isolated phenomenon, but can hardly imagine globalization in its wholeness. For instance, it is easy to understand that we all, individually, by our ways of life...

The authors analyse the constitutional concept of autochthony in Slovenia and its rather uncritical and poorly informed introduction into Slovenian law and social science from the (post)colonial era. This was demonstrated also in the 1998 Opinion of the Constitutional Court which designated the constitutional concept of autochthony as pertains to t...

The article presents selected aspects of demo-geographical development of Zumberk as border in trans-border region placed in wider Kolpa basin in last one and a half century. Some rare, scarcely known, and never aggregated data about population change, fertility, migration, ethnic and religious structure were analyzed. Some details about boundary i...

UČINKI PRISELJEVANJA V SLOVENIJO PO DRUGI SVETOVNI VOJNI Raziskava obravnava demogeografske učinke imigracije v Sloveniji v obdobju po drugi svetovni vojni, zlasti z vidika dejavnikov migracij in sprememb v rodnostnem obnašanju. Namen raziskave je zapolniti vrzeli na področju poznavanja sprememb rodnostnega obnašanja prebivalstva Slovenije v odvis...

THE IMPACTS OF IMMIGRATION TO SLOVENIA AFTER WORLD WAR TWO The research discusses demo-geographical impacts of immigration in Slovenia after WW II, especially from the aspects of factors of migration and changes in fertility behaviour. The aim of the research was to fill some gaps in the comprehension of those changes in fertility behaviour of Slo...

The chapter deals with the changes of ethnic structure in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1879 to 1991 and it estimates the post-war ethnic changes 10 years after the signing of Dayton Peace Agreement in 1995. It explores the motives for the outbreak of the war (1992-1995) and the socio-political arrangements in the Yugoslav era with a special emphasis on...

This paper presents the problems of determining and identifying fertility factors and fertility behaviour. Analysis shows that a group of geographical factors should be added to the present six identified groups of fertility factors or fertility behaviour factors.

The paper deals with the demographic and settlement characteristics of the Romany in Prekmurje (northeastern Slovenia). Along with ethnic characteristics, there is a series of weaknesses in their socioeconomic structure, particularly poor education and a high proportion of unemployment, that separates them from the rest of the population of the reg...

The article presents the case of an application ofgeography in fertility behaviour studies. Analyzing the officialstatistical data and the data collected by an inquiry, we compared threeareas in Slovenia (Prekmurje, Zasavje, administrative unit of Domžale) in afield of urbanity, relief and ethnicity. The findings point to certaincomparative advanta...

The article deals with the problems of the boundary between Asia and Europe. It briefly describes the origins and the development of the boundary up to the present day. It specially emphasizes the problems of fixing the borderline in the broader are of Caucasus and the coastal rim of Europe. It has never been really clear to which continent these r...

The article deals with the problems of a newly established border region on the border of Slovenia and Croatia. The authors present the situation in this area where they investigated the inhabitants' opinion of different topics connected with the life inside the border region. They also compare this region and the border regions which have had a si...

In this piece, the author examines the problem of education vs. fertility. The main objective is to re-assess the relationship between the two. In the prevailing view in demographic literature, education is treated as a highly influential factor in reproductive behaviour. This view posits a simple linear relationship between education and fertility...