Dve Domovini

About Dve Domovini

Dve Domovini — Journal Profile

Dve Domovini (also titled Two Homelands) is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal of migration studies published in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Its print ISSN is 0353-6777 and its online ISSN is 1581-1212. The journal is issued by the Slovenian Migration Institute — the Inštitut za slovensko izseljenstvo in migracije of ZRC SAZU, the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts — and published by Založba ZRC. It has appeared since 1990, publishes two issues a year, and welcomes scientific and professional articles, reports, debates and book reviews from the humanities and social sciences that deal with migration and related phenomena. It is multidisciplinary and multilingual, publishing mainly in Slovenian and English. This profile is built from the journal's own statements of purpose reproduced in its issues and in SCImago's record for its ISSNs, from its listing in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), which was fetched directly for this profile, from OpenAlex's record for its ISSNs, and from its documented mastheads. Every figure is attributed to the source that produced it.

The Institute Behind the Journal

Dve Domovini cannot be understood apart from the institute that publishes it. The Slovenian Migration Institute, part of ZRC SAZU in Ljubljana, is Slovenia's specialist research institute for migration: descriptions of the institute record that it conducts interdisciplinary research on migration processes in Slovenia and internationally, with particular attention to the emigration, organisation, cultural activity and acculturation of Slovene emigrants, and that it maintains archive collections — documents, letters, photographs and recordings — and a collection of emigrant periodicals open to the public. It has published the journal since 1990 and, since 2000, a monograph series called Migracije (Migrations). Since 2009 it has belonged to an international network of migration institutions. The journal is therefore not a commercial title attached to a topic; it is the periodical of a research institute whose collections, fieldwork and historical scholarship feed directly into its pages, and whose researchers study Slovenian emigration, immigration into Slovenia, and migration in comparative perspective.

That origin explains the title. “Dve domovini” means “two homelands” — the situation of the emigrant who belongs both to the country left behind and to the country settled in. The journal's own statement of purpose, printed in its issues in Slovenian and English, says it is intended for scientific and professional articles, reports, reflections and book reviews from the humanities and social sciences dealing with different aspects of migration. It repeats three defining adjectives: published since 1990, multidisciplinary, and multilingual, appearing twice a year, with all articles reviewed. In one issue's author instructions the review is specified further: articles are published in Slovenian and English, publication in other languages is a matter for the editorial board, and manuscripts accepted by the board are not to be offered to another journal meanwhile.

Scope: Migration in Regional and Global Context

SCImago reproduces the journal's own English scope statement: the journal, issued by the ZRC SAZU Slovenian Migration Institute, is dedicated to publishing original research papers about different aspects of migration, emigration and immigration, multiculturalism, and integration practices and policies in regional and global context; it is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed scholarly journal publishing papers, policy discussions, thematic sections and book reviews in Slovenian or English. DOAJ's subject classification places it under the Library of Congress heading “Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration”, and its registered keywords are migration, refugees, emigration, borders, multiculturalism and migrants' agency — a compact and accurate map of the journal's territory.

Published work shows what that territory means in practice. A thematic section on children and migration opened one 2010 issue. A 2019 article examined “crimmigration” in Slovenia — the criminalisation of migration in law, institutions and policy, and its effects on migrants themselves. Another documented study traced the ambivalent identities that emerge in transnational migration between Argentina and Slovenia, where post-war Slovene political emigration created a diaspora whose descendants can reactivate Slovene origin, culture, citizenship and belonging. That range — historical diaspora studies, contemporary refugee and border research, integration policy, identity and culture — is the journal's signature. It speaks simultaneously to demographers, sociologists, anthropologists, historians and political scientists, and its SCImago categories (Cultural Studies, Demography, and Sociology and Political Science) reflect exactly that spread.

The journal also works in thematic sections, so prospective authors should look at recent issues before submitting: a manuscript that joins an active conversation in the journal — children in migration, post-migration aesthetics, the governance of asylum, diaspora language and memory — will be read differently from a general migration paper with no connection to the journal's Slovenian, Central European and global-Slovenian vantage point. At the same time, the scope is explicitly comparative and global; Slovenia functions as a case and a standpoint, not as a limit.

Editorial Office, Mastheads and How the Journal Runs

The editorial office is the Slovenian Migration Institute, ZRC SAZU, P.O. Box 306, SI-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia — the address printed in the journal's issues, together with the institute's telephone and fax numbers and the journal's web presence. DOAJ records the journal's editorial board page and its author-instructions page on its current journal platform, records double anonymous peer review, and gives an average publication time of 24 weeks from submission to publication. Mastheads change between issues, as they do in most institute journals: in one documented issue the editor-in-chief was Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik with Marina Lukšič Hacin as editor-in-charge; in the 2024 issue numbered 59 the editors-in-chief were Kristina Toplak and Marijanca Ajša Vižintin, again with Marina Lukšič Hacin as editor-in-charge, and a large international editorial board drawn from migration research across Europe and North America. Because mastheads are issue-specific, authors should take the current board from the journal's own editorial-team page — the page DOAJ itself links — rather than from any single printed issue.

Funding is part of the journal's public record in its issues: publication is supported by the Slovenian Research (and Innovation) Agency and by the Government Office for Slovenians Abroad. That public, institutional funding underlies the journal's open-access economics described below.

Open Access, Licensing and Charges — the DOAJ Record

The DOAJ record fetched for ISSN 1581-1212 (which returns the same single record for the print ISSN) is unusually complete, and this profile reports it as fetched. The journal is listed in DOAJ with open-access start year 2020. Articles are licensed CC BY; the record gives a licence example and links the journal's own pages for its open-access statement, author instructions and licence terms. It records no article processing charge and no other charges, which makes the journal a diamond open-access venue in practical terms: free to read and free to publish, funded institutionally. It uses DOIs as its persistent identifier scheme. It records Slovenian and English as its languages, double anonymous peer review as its review process, and 24 weeks as its average publication time. OpenAlex independently classifies the source as open access and in DOAJ since 2020, with a high share of open works (286 of its 312 OpenAlex works are open access). Readers should still check the licence statement on the individual article they reuse, since the article-level statement governs reuse in law.

Metrics, Attributed

SCImago's journal page for this title (source record 5600153675, reached from its ISSNs) gives, for 2025: SJR 0.111 and h-index 14, publisher Založba ZRC, categories Cultural Studies, Demography, and Sociology and Political Science, and Scopus coverage 2008–2025. The h-index of 14 matches the figure stored on the Journals World record this profile replaces. SCImago's quartile history is more interesting than any single year: in Cultural Studies the journal stood in Q1 in several earlier years (including 2020, 2021 and 2023 on the fetched page), which illustrates how volatile quartile lines are for a small, specialised journal whose citation pool is modest — a quartile here measures position within a changing category, not a change in the journal's editorial quality. Secondary Scopus summaries consulted give a CiteScore of 0.7 with category positions described as Q2 in Cultural Studies and Q3 in Demography and in Sociology and Political Science by CiteScore percentile; CiteScore quartiles and SJR quartiles are different computations and should not be merged into one number.

OpenAlex, resolving the ISSNs to source S4210190117 under the name “Two Homelands”, counts 312 works and 558 citations, with an h-index of 10 and a two-year mean citedness of about 0.25 in its summary statistics, and topics dominated by diaspora, migration and transnational identity; migration, refugees and integration; migration and labour dynamics; and Balkan history, politics and society. The OpenAlex and SCImago h-indices differ (10 against 14) because the underlying databases index different document sets; both are reported here, attributed, and neither should be silently substituted for the other. No Journal Impact Factor from Journal Citation Reports is claimed in this profile; none was verified from a source consulted.

Indexing History in the Journal's Own Pages

The journal's printed issues list its abstracting and indexing as FRANCIS, IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature), IBR (International Bibliography of Book Reviews), Sociological Abstracts, IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences), SCOPUS, Social SciSearch and Journal Citation Reports / Social Sciences Edition. That is the journal's own historical statement and is reported as such; the independently verifiable, current facts established for this profile are the Scopus coverage line on SCImago (2008–2025), the DOAJ listing, and the OpenAlex source. A reader who needs a specific index for a tenure or funding rule should confirm that index's current source list directly, since index coverage changes and a journal's printed list can lag behind it.

Who Should Submit, and Practical Guidance

The natural author for Dve Domovini works on migration — its history, demography, sociology, anthropology, politics or culture — and can write for a multidisciplinary readership. Slovene-diaspora research has a home here that it has almost nowhere else, but so do studies of immigration, refugees, borders and integration in Slovenia, Central Europe and beyond, especially comparative work. Practical points that are verified: there is no article charge; review is double anonymous; the average time from submission to publication recorded in DOAJ is 24 weeks; articles appear in Slovenian or English (other languages only by arrangement with the board); and the journal publishes research articles, policy discussions, thematic sections and book reviews, so shorter professional and policy contributions have a defined place alongside full research papers. What could not be verified from the sources consulted — a current acceptance rate, and word limits in force today — is recorded as not publicly disclosed in those sources; the author-instructions page linked from DOAJ is the authoritative place to confirm them at submission time.

Disambiguation

“Dve Domovini” and “Two Homelands” are one journal, not two: DOAJ gives Two Homelands as the alternative title, and OpenAlex files the source under the English name while carrying both ISSNs. Cite the form used by the article you read, and use the ISSNs — 0353-6777 and 1581-1212 — to confirm identity in catalogues. The Journals World record previously showed the publisher only as the numeric code 3932; the verified publisher and institute are Založba ZRC and the ZRC SAZU Slovenian Migration Institute, as recorded above.

Reading the Journal: What a Run of Issues Shows

A reader who works through the journal's back issues gets a history of Slovenian migration scholarship in miniature. The older volumes document a country whose modern migration story began with mass emigration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — to the Americas, to Australia and across Europe — and they preserve research on Slovene emigrant communities, their newspapers, churches, associations and language retention that exists in few other places. The institute behind the journal describes its own research focus in exactly those terms: emigration processes, the organisation and cultural activities of Slovene emigrants, and their acculturation problems, backed by archive collections of documents, letters, photographs and emigrant periodicals. Articles in the journal draw on that archival base, which is why historians cite it for primary as well as secondary material.

Later volumes turn the lens around. Slovenia after independence, and especially after European integration, became a country of immigration and transit as well as emigration, and the journal follows that change: asylum and refugee reception, the legal construction of migration status, labour migration within Europe, return migration, and the position of communities from the other former Yugoslav republics. The 2019 crimmigration study is representative of this newer register — legal and institutional analysis joined to migrants' own experience — while diaspora studies continue alongside it, for example in work on Slovene communities in Argentina and their descendants' negotiations of identity. The coexistence of the two registers in one journal is its value: few migration journals can place a study of a century-old diaspora parish and a study of a current border policy between the same covers with equal editorial competence.

Using and Citing the Journal

For citation, prefer the article's own page: the journal's current platform assigns DOIs, which DOAJ records as its persistent-identifier scheme, and the DOI resolves the ambiguity that the bilingual title can create in reference lists. Search in catalogues under both title forms, Dve Domovini and Two Homelands, and under both ISSNs; older cataloguing sometimes files the journal under its Slovenian title alone. Because articles appear in Slovenian or English, readers should check the language of the specific article rather than assuming the whole issue is in one language, and should use the English summaries the journal provides when citing Slovenian-language work for an international audience. For tenure, funding and reporting purposes, the verifiable service facts are the DOAJ record (peer review, licensing, absence of charges), the SCImago coverage line (Scopus, 2008–2025) and the metrics attributed in the metrics section above; claims beyond those should be checked against the primary registers at the time they are needed.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the ISSNs of Dve Domovini? Print 0353-6777; online 1581-1212.

Who publishes it? The Slovenian Migration Institute of ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, with Založba ZRC as publisher.

Since when has it appeared, and how often? Since 1990, two issues per year.

Is it open access? Does it charge authors? Yes — DOAJ-listed, CC BY, with no article processing charge and no other charges recorded in its DOAJ record.

How is it reviewed, and how long does publication take? Double anonymous peer review; DOAJ records an average of 24 weeks from submission to publication.

What are its metrics? SCImago 2025: SJR 0.111, h-index 14, Scopus coverage 2008–2025. OpenAlex: 312 works, 558 citations, h-index 10. A CiteScore of 0.7 is reported by secondary Scopus summaries.

In which languages does it publish? Slovenian and English, per DOAJ and the journal's own statements; other languages by editorial arrangement.

Sources and Verification Note

Sources actually consulted for this profile: the DOAJ search-API record for ISSNs 1581-1212 and 0353-6777 (editorial process, licensing, charges, timing, languages, keywords, subject classification, institutional name and journal links); SCImago's journal page for the title (2025 SJR, h-index, publisher, categories, coverage, quartile history and the journal's own scope statement); OpenAlex source S4210190117 resolved from the ISSNs; the journal's own statements of purpose, indexing lists and mastheads as printed in its issues (1990 start, twice-yearly appearance, institute address, funders, editors named above); a description of the Slovenian Migration Institute and its publications; and secondary Scopus/CiteScore summaries, used only for the attributed CiteScore figure. No impact factor, acceptance rate or current word limit is asserted, because none was verified.