2.2 residence permits in the republic of slovenia - Ljudmila

5CLOSING THOUGHTS:
Self-organisation,
solidarity
networking,
reaction
Members of the research collective Rhizome and founders of the Rizomalnica
Counselling Office have been performing intense fieldwork in terms of tracking
down and identifying various life situations and status-related occurrences of political
and economic migrants. The results thus obtained clearly show that migrants in
Maribor are often faced with latent and subtle forms of racism on one hand, and the
unprofessional attitude of competent authorities, namely administrative officers, on
the other. Moreover, migrants are in many systemic aspects unapologetically placed
in an underprivileged position and treated as such. We would therefore like to ask
you as a migrant living here to pay particular attention to this issue when arranging
your personal and administrative matters in Maribor. By bearing in mind that
the mechanisms of racism and relations of power do very much exist, you will be
opening a new horizon of informal surveillance over functioning standards of administrative
institutions for everyone’s benefit. If you are not particularly familiar with
various mechanisms of claiming your own rights, you are kindly invited to contact
the Rizomalnica Counselling Office for assistance in exercising and asserting your
rights.
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