The study includes an analysis of the presence of Slovene emigrant literature in the native culture, in literary sciences and in education. The analysis is schemed chronologically and includes comparison of the role of emigrant literature in Slovenia by individual decades after World War II. Within the frame of its’ changing role in the native culture, publishing houses in Slovenia, active in that field, the Slovene editions of emigrant anthologies, and cultural magazines in homeland that have interest in emigrant writers, are presented. An analysis follows on dealing emigrant literature in fundamental literary-historical surveys and in lexicons and in other scientific and professional publications in serial and non-serial publications. In continuation results of the research on integration of emigrant literature in primary and secondary schools education contents and in university studying programmes are summed up. In her conclusion the author gives concrete suggestions for a more vital incorporation of emigrant word art into modern Slovene culture.Študija vsebuje analizo prisotnosti slovenske izseljenske književnosti v matični kulturi, literarnih znanostih in šolstvu. Analiza je kronološko zasnovana in vključuje primerjavo vloge zdomske literature v Sloveniji po posameznih desetletjih po drugi svetovni vojni. V okviru njene spreminjajoče se vloge v matični kulturi so predstavljene na tem področju dejavne založbe v Sloveniji, domače izdaje izseljenskih antologij in kulturne revije v domovini, ki kažejo zanimanje za zdomske pisce. Sledi analiza obravnave emigrantskega slovstva v temeljnih literarnozgodovinskih pregledih in leksikonih ter drugih znanstvenih in strokovnih objavah v serijskih in neserijskih publikacijah. V nadaljevanju so povzeti rezultati raziskave o integriranosti izseljenskega slovstva v osnovnošolske in srednješolske učne vsebine ter v univerzitetne študijske programe, v sklepu pa avtorica podaja konkretne predloge za vitalnejšo vključitev zdomske besedne umetnosti v sodobno slovensko kulturo
