Between Inclusion and Exclusion: Immigrants in Slovenia's Welfare System

The PowerPoint presentation “Between Inclusion and Exclusion: Immigrants in Slovenia's Welfare System” presents the initial findings of research examining how immigrants are positioned within the Slovenian welfare state. The presentation discusses three key dimensions: the legal and institutional framework regulating immigrants’ access to social rights, the empirical patterns of the use of social transfers based on statistical indicators, and public attitudes towards immigrants’ entitlement to welfare. By combining legal analysis, statistical data, and public opinion research, the presentation highlights the tensions between the formal universalism of the welfare state and the selective access to social rights in practice, as well as the role of welfare chauvinism in shaping public discourse. The contribution is the result of the project Immigrant Integration into the Welfare State in Slovenia: Analysis of Statistical Indicators, Policies, Public Attitudes, and Media Reporting (J5-6009) and the research programme Ethnic and Minority Studies and Slovene Studies (Slovene National Question) (P5-008), both funded by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency from the state budget.