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passing of the law on citizenship and the law on foreigners,
and that are important for the understanding
of Slovene citizenship and erasure.
These discussions contained arguments that (from
today’s perspective) can be understood as either backing
or trying to prevent erasure even though the actual
fact of the erasure of people from the lists of permanent
residents in Slovenia never became public discussion
point in any of the three chambers of the Slovene
Assembly. The erasure shows not only how a group of
people become deprived of their rights, but also how
this action could become meaningful for the majority
population (i.e. actual citizens) who were also prey
to uncertainty and the lack of social and legal security
(the rise of unemployment, worsening access to housing,
the commercialization of health sector insurance,
etc.). The process of Slovene independence can be
understood as a confrontation between understanding
the Slovene state as either an instrument of the
rule of law or as an instrument of the Nation, national
belonging, and loyalty. Although both tendencies were
present, the very fact of erasure revealed which one
became dominant.
Keywords: erasure from the registry of permanent
residents, the socio-political chamber of the Assembly
of the Republic of Slovenia, nationalism, law on citizenship,
independence, foreigners, ethnocentrism,
political equality, statement of good inten
48 Borut Mekina
A monument to the erased
The author begins his article with a description of a
discussion that took place in the Slovene Assembly
in 1991 when delegates of all three chambers voted
on the Law on foreigners. This law then led to
the erasure or, rather, to the punishment of those
otherwise permanent residents in Slovenia who
had not applied for Slovene citizenship. The author
proves that the motives behind this were primarily
local, and as they were presented in the Chamber
of the Communes; they were less the interests of
the employers and employees as represented in the
Chamber of Associated Labour; even less the interests
of »high« politics of the socio-political chamber
and the government itself. Even though those delegates
who voted for the »erasure« never explained
their reasons for this, the author nonetheless tries to
explain their motives. He does this through the case
study of a bank employee from Maribor and through
the example of an erased individual whom the quirky
legislation bought to his death in Croatia. The author
concludes his article with parallels from Hannah
Arendt’s interpretation of fascism and with which
she brought attention to the potential dehumanisation
the modern state is capable of.
Keywords: erased, fascism, the Assembly of the
Republic of Slovenia, law on foreigners, bureaucracy
59 Uršula Lipovec Čebron
The metastasis of erasure
This article analyses the experiences of illness and exclusion
of four individuals from the Slovene part of Istria
and who were erased from the system of public health in
Slovenia. The article draws on some theoretical concepts
of socio-cultural epidemiology and medical anthropology
as well as on data gathered by the Clinic for individuals
without health insurance in Ljubljana. Apart from
the life stories of these four individuals, the article also
brings an analysis of the causes of their illnesses and the
itinerary of their medication. In this the experiences of
exclusion from the medical institutions in Slovene Istria
are foregrounded. Also discussed are some phenomena
that contribute to the health of the erased such as the
aforementioned clinic, gestures of solidarity made by
individual health workers, and the importance of article
7 of the Law on health care and health insurance that
foresees urgent medical care for individuals otherwise
without health insurance in Slovenia.
Keywords: erased, public health care, exclusion,
medical anthropology, socio-cultural epidemiology,
experiences of illness, etiology, Istria
81 Marta Gregorčič
Phantomic irresponsibility,
or, fascism in disguise
This article examines those emancipatory political
practices that successfully resist contemporary forms
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