Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nadia Molek at an International Conference on Migration, Digital Communities, and Remittances

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nadia Molek attended the international conference “Homecomings” and Internal Migrations in the History and Present of Central and Southeastern Europe, held on 11–12 June 2026 at the University of Primorska in Koper.

At the conference, she presented the paper Circular Mobilities, Symbolic Returns and Ethnic Re-Emergence: Slovene–Argentine Transnationalism in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries. In it, she analysed contemporary transnational connections between Slovenia and Argentina, with a focus on symbolic returns, digital communities, and various forms of remittances. She particularly highlighted the role of Facebook groups and other digital environments as spaces of organisation, connection, and the reconfiguration of belonging. Digital communities enable descendants of Slovene emigrants to exchange family stories, photographs, documents, linguistic knowledge, and information about their ancestors, and they become spaces where identity, memory, and belonging are reshaped.

During her visit, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nadia Molek also conducted fieldwork for her postdoctoral research project, co-financed by ARIS. In Koper and Izola, she carried out interviews with Filipino and Thai workers, as well as with a management representative of a company employing migrant labour.