In 2003, a year before Slovenia became an EU Member alongside other seven post-socialist states, a textbook for primary school children entitled Society 5 included the title ‘Cooperation with Other Countries for a Better World’ and description: ‘Slovenia, as many other European countries, helped refugees who fled former Yugoslavia to save their bare life’ (Košak & Lavbič Saje, 2003, 128 [My translation]). The example from the textbook merely illustrates the well-established scholarly account that after its independence and during the EU accession process, Slovenia aimed to reposition itself as a Central European country rather than a former Yugoslav or a Balkan state (Lindstrom, 2003; Vidmar Horvat, 2020). A similar discourse gained prominence during the 2015/16 Refugee Crisis, especially in Slovenia and other post-Yugoslav countries positioned on the Western Balkan route. Numerous political representatives in former Yugoslav countries expressed similar sentiments of ‘European’ solidarity and referenced the Yugoslav wars during the 2015/16 refugee protection crisis (Sardelić, 2018, 136–137; for more on such discourses, see Chap. 4 ). The public debate in Austria also selectively highlighted past solidarities, describing the country as ‘having a proud history of helping refugees’ and a ‘nation that functions as a bridge between east and west’ and claiming to be without discrimination towards diverse groups of refugees (Pongratz-Lippitt, 2016).