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EGYPTIAN CHILDREN AND THEIR NANNIES - THE »ALEKSANDRINKE«

Daša Koprivec, Master of ethnology and Cultural sociologist and employee of the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, has collaborated as member of the Management Committee with the Society for the Preservation of the Cultural Heritage of the Alexandrian Women Prvačina since its foundation in November 2005. In her report, which was published in number 18 of the magazine Etnolog (2008), the author presents an important part of the female labour migration in the 19th and 20th century from the Goriška region to Egypt, i.e. the protégés of the Slovenian nannies in Egypt.