Description of the integration initiative implemented
From the perspective of migrant woman much more emphasis should be put to establish a common portal and a special center for foreigners where all the information, need for people who migrate to Slovenia, would be available at one point. Maybe a step-by-step list what should be arranged if one wants to move in Slovenia. Also the various official documents should be in English and Slovene language since migrants often don’t have an opportunity to know Slovenian language or people with Slovenian language knowledge already in advance, before moving to Slovenia. For example: what is needed for gaining different types of statuses, what is needed to arrange flat/house rental, what is needed to arrange everything regarding work-related opportunities, health issues etc. There could even be sections for similar professions and perhaps even a portal with various open calls on different topics/areas where people might apply for collaboration in international projects or similar.

Personal story
The interviewee started to cooperate with a group of people from Slovenia within the international projects in the field of arts. She is a dancer, but also having some educational workshops and similar. She decided to move to Slovenia after getting familiar with it during last 10 years of occasional coming due to project collaboration. There was some period when the interviewee travelled a lot between Slovenia and Poland. But then she had to pay for a rent of the flat in Slovenia and Poland, which didn’t make sense anymore. Besides, she met someone and they are in an intimate relationship which helped her to made final decision to move. It is not easy to decide for migration at her age, as she commented, since she is 47 years old. She finished a secondary school, started to study, but got a job and not have time to finish. She finished different courses, ending with exams, diploma. She doesn’t have children. Her relatives (sister, mother etc.) are still living in Poland. Her mother is old and living alone thus she figured out the ways to visit her twice, even during pandemic. In the meantime they are in constant contact via mobile phone. Before she was using “bla-bla” car option where a person who for example (private) travels from Slovenia to Poland offer a transport for sharing the costs purpose. She made this decision to migrate 2 years ago. She came by car since she had little luggage (used to move around). Somehow she had to start from the beginning. It was a reasonable decision since she represented more Slovenia than Poland within the international festivals. The producer that she worked with helped her a lot with all the necessary procedures, how and where to arrange what. Her working environment is very friendly since they are a group of people who are closely connected. The producer helped her of how to apply for temporary residence and a self-employed status in culture. The producer also helped her to get the digital certificate and go through all other necessary procedures. The situation for the artists in Slovenia is better, for example this a self-employed status in culture is great and offers more security. The interviewee moved to her partner – that change brought many new things into her life. She needs to cover her living expenses, but not for renting a flat which is very helpful, especially during the covid-19 pandemic that was terrible for the cultural sector. The interviewee is a member of Facebook group of Polish people, living in Slovenia. They support each other in various levels, for example: combining the transport Slovenia-Poland or back, sharing the information regarding various everyday lives issues that need to be settled. The interviewee soon after arrival in Slovenia faced the Covid-19 situation and complete lock-down of the country. This was terrible since she had many plans within her work, but everything in connection to culture was cancelled and the sector was very affected by the overall situation. At some point she received information by her colleague that she can apply for financial support in terms of receiving a basic income for the self-employed. Her experiences with migration are specific thus she couldn’t recognize the difference of risks between men and women migrants. She doesn’t earn enough money to pay for the Slovenian language course thus she is learning the language by herself. She is reading a lot and talking to people she knows from Slovenia in Slovenian language. She is not forced to learn the Slovenian language since majority of people she met is speaking English, but she wants to learn it since she doesn’t want to be excluded from the discussions while living in Slovenia. The interviewee would like to settle in Slovenia in the future. She would like to finish school for artists. She likes the people and work in Slovenia. She hopes for the opportunity of career advancement and she would like to broaden the scope of her work.

Analysis of the initiative and individual story
The main initiatives to improve integration have been:
LEGAL SCOPE:
- It is very helpful to have support during the arranging bureaucratic matters in Slovenia.
- The health service access is discriminating towards foreigners in Slovenia. Well, the situation on health service is currently very complicated for all living in Slovenia. The doctors in Slovenia are currently under huge pressure. They are overwhelmed, they have too many patients and are not able to take additional new patients. The situation is similar in the field of dentistry. The health care is partly publicly available, partly private.
RESOURCES AND SUPPORTS
- There is a lack of social integration support even though the interviewee learn Slovene language.
NETWORKS AND PARTICIPATION
- Previous networks have very important role, especially due to the Covid-19 period, during which the new social relationship were not possible.
- The support and participation is much easier if one have previous contacts with people, living in the new destination country (the interviewee commented that she is “very privileged” in this regard).
- The interviewee had an opportunity to join the Facebook group “Positive people from Poland, living in Slovenia”. The group serves as a very relevant in many way: either combining the transport between the countries or informing each other about the border situation or which measures were undertaken during the Covid’19 period (since they were changing very often in Slovenia) etc.
CULTURAL IDENTITY
- Maintaining their cultural identity through contact with relatives and migrants from the same cultural context.
RESILIENCE STRATEGIES
- To organize events or on-line portal where all the information in case of migration to Slovenia a person should have.
- The ability to meet other people from different countries in order to share various experiences and broaden the scope.
- Highly valuing the resources, available in the host society, especially a self-employed status in culture in Slovenia that offer some feeling of security in the work environment.

Results and Impact
This migratory process had an important impact on the life of the interviewee since she was torn between Poland and Slovenia for almost 10 years. The interviewed woman compared that also the life in origin country was good, but due to many reasons she expect that her life in Slovenia will improved. In the field of culture the Slovenia has better approach towards artists than Poland. The health care is still a challenge that will need to be addressed from the foreigners’ point of view in the future.