143 KB58 KB199120252016Koprivec, Dašaštevilka:letn. 26 = 77str. 31-48ISSN:0354-0316COBISSID_HOST:1934214URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-6TMAL45LslSlovenski etnografski muzejEtnolog. Nova vrsta (Ljubljana)aleksandrinkeEgiptEgyptljudsko življenjeSlovenesSlovenkeslovenske izseljenkeživljenjske zgodbeOsebne zgodbe o življenju v Egiptu in doma|The article presents personal stories of aleksandrinke and their children about life in Egypt and at home. The reasons why the aleksandrinke went to Egypt were very different and ranged from economic to emotional ones. Living in Cairo or Alexandria as wet nurses, nannies, chambermaids, or companions they acquired a variety of skills, from learning foreign languages to child education. This broadened their horizon considerably and those who returned home after many years of living in Egypt found it hard to re-adapt to the domestic environment. Some aleksandrinke were joined in Egypt by their children, less often their husbands. When they married in Egypt, it was mostly to a non-Slovene. Many children of the aleksandrinke emigrated to Australia or Canada in the 1950sV članku so predstavljene osebne zgodbe aleksandrink in njihovih otrok o življenju v Egiptu in doma. Razlogi, zaradi katerih so aleksandrinke odhajale v Egipt, so bili zelo različni, od ekonomskih do čustvenih. Ko so kot dojilje, varuške, sobarice ali družabnice živele v Kairu ali Aleksandriji, so si pridobile različna znanja, od jezikov do vzgoje otrok. Zelo se je spremenilo njihovo življenjsko obzorje, zato so imele tiste, ki so se po dolgih letih bivanja v Egiptu vrnile domov, težave s prilagajanjem domačemu okolju. Nekaterim aleksandrinkam so se v Egiptu pridrižili tudi njihovi otroci, redkeje možje. Pri aleksandrinkah, ki so se poročile v Egiptu, je največkrat šlo za narodnostno mešane zakone. Številni otroci aleksandrink so v 50. letih 20. stoletja emigrirali v Avstralijo ali KanadoTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaSlovenski etnografski muzej