Zaključna publikacija Urban Diversity

• Other Authors: Beznec, Barbara (Editor), Gombač, Jure (Editor), Kastelic, Špela (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: Slovenian
• Published: Ljubljana ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC 2020
• Subjects: Migration, immigration & emigration; Social groups; creativity; cultural diversity; entrepreneurship; migrations; urbanity; kulturna raznolikost; migracije; podjetništvo; urbanost; ustvarjalnost
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The Urban Diversity Final Publication is a representation of Urban Diversity project that lasted between 2017 and 2020. The project's aim was a creative connection of migrant entrepreneurs and their families in Ljubljana and Graz, and to help encourage and promote diversity in both cities. There are already some support and aid programs for self-employment and business establishment for migrants, however both cities also trace obstacles that abate migrant entrepreneurs from being creative and integrate into the society. These obstacles can be found on different levels, and are not easy to define or remove, while they also represent a large issue for migrant entrepreneurs and the host society, which stuns their potential and its own economic and social progress. The results and achievements in the publication present the good practice of removing social obstacles that already exist elsewhere in Europe.

Zaključna publikacija Urban Diversity predstavlja rezultate projekta Urban Diversity, ki je potekal med letoma 2017 in 2020. Namen projekta je bilo kreativno povezovati migrantske podjetnike in njihove družine iz Ljubljane in Gradca ter pripomoči k spodbujanju in promociji raznolikosti v obeh mestih. Mesti sicer imata določene programe podpore in pomoči pri samozaposlovanju in odpiranju podjetij med migranti, vendar pa sta razvili tudi določene ovire, ki migrantske podjetnike ovirajo pri njihovi kreativnosti ter vključevanju v družbo. Te ovire so prisotne na številnih nivojih in jih je razmeroma težko odkriti in odstraniti, predstavljajo pa veliko težavo za migrantske podjetnike ter družbo gostiteljico, ki hromi njihov potencial, s tem pa tudi svoj ekonomski ter družbeni razvoj. Rezultati in dosežki projekta, ki so zbrani v publikaciji, predstavljajo dobre prakse odstranjevanja družbenih ovir, ki drugje v Evropi že obstajajo.