• The Institute for Economic Research carries out research on the stock and flow of immigrants and emigrants, migration policy, and the impact of migration on demographic trends. It focuses on various aspects of migration flows: external and internal, registered and non-registered, actual and potential, and highly skilled (i.e., brain drain, especially involving scientists).

Contact person: dr. Milena Bevc,
mail: bevcm@ier.si, phone: +386 1 530 3862

• The Institute for Ethnic Studies has a long track record of work in minority studies, ethnic studies, and human rights. Its research highlights aspects of history, geography, political science, sociology, and anthropology.

Contact person: dr. Romana Bešter,
mail: romana.bester@guest.arnes.si, phone: +386 1 2001 886

• At the Science and Research Centre of Koper of the University of Primorska, the Institute for Mediterranean Humanities and Social Studies is engaged primarily in Mediterranean studies. Research in the field of migration and ethnic studies focuses on borders and cross-border integration, ethnically mixed areas, minorities, human rights, marginalized groups, groups vulnerable to human trafficking, irregular migration, migration trends, and migration and integration policies.

Contact person: dr. Karmen Medica,
mail: karmen.medica@guest.arnes.si, phone: +386 5 6637 700

• The Institute for Slovenian Emigration Studies at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts is involved in interdisciplinary research (ranging from the humanities to the social sciences) on migration processes. Its researchers focus on emigration and immigration studies, analyses of return migration, ethnicity, migration policies, and various methodological and theoretical research approaches to migration.

Contact person: dr. Marina Lukšič Hacin,
mail: luksic@zrc-sazu.si, phone: +386 1 4706 486

• The Peace Institute of the Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies devotes close attention to marginalized social and political issues of migration. Studying migration has been an ongoing endeavour of Peace Institute researchers, who have approached this phenomenon from various perspectives; for example, migration and citizenship issues, politics of exclusion/inclusion, nationhood and the nation-state, migration, and globalization.

Contact person: dr. Mojca Pajnik,
mail: mojca.pajnik@mirovni-institut.si, phone: +386 1 2347 720

• At the University of Ljubljana, the Research Centre at the Faculty of Economics explores the economics of migration, the statistics of migration, the demography of migration, and migration management. Researchers' focus is mainly directed towards European and especially Central and Southeast European migration.

Contact person: dr. Janez Malačič,
mail: janez.malacic@ef.uni-lj.si, phone: +386 1 5892 515

• The Sociomedical Institute at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts studies migration in relation to other elements of the population dynamics. Its primary research themes related to migration are integration, the gender and identity of migrants, and attitudes towards them.

Contact person: mag Sanja Cukut,
mail: sanja.cukut@zrc-sazu.si; phone: +386 1 4706 440
 

• The Slovenian Institute for Adult Education focuses on adult education issues, however, in recent years we have also paid special attention to vulnerable groups, among them especially migrants. Primary research themes related to migration include: educational needs of migrants, multicultural competencies, educational exclusion/integration of migrants, etc.

Contact person: dr. Natalija Vrečer
mail: natalija.vrecer@acs.si; phone: +386 1 5842 580
 

Contact: Stojan Sorčan