The Rights of the Roma
Title | The Rights of the Roma PDF eBook |
Author | Celia Donert |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2017-12-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107176271 |
Explores the evolving human rights of Roma in Eastern Europe's recent history, and the complex politics of Roma rights today.
Roma Rights and Civil Rights
Title | Roma Rights and Civil Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Felix B. Chang |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2020-03-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107158362 |
This is the first book-length work to offer a sustained comparison of Roma and African Americans.
Minority Rights Protection in International Law
Title | Minority Rights Protection in International Law PDF eBook |
Author | Helen O'Nions |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2016-04-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317095650 |
There are approximately ten million Roma in Europe, making them the continent’s largest non-territorial minority. Despite this fact, the Roma continue to experience routine discrimination and marginalization in European countries. As a result they are seldom engaged in national political activism and are frequently at the bottom of the economic and social ladder. The severity of exclusion experienced by the Roma in societies which have long paid heed to the notion of individual, universal human rights - combined with their geographical dispersal and heterogeneous nature - makes the study of the Roma highly informative. This book examines the theoretical debate concerning the most appropriate way of protecting the fundamental human rights of the Roma, which also illuminates ways in which the rights of minority groups can be protected more generally. As a result, this work will be a valuable resource for social scientists and practitioners in the field of human rights.
Realizing Roma Rights
Title | Realizing Roma Rights PDF eBook |
Author | Jacqueline Bhabha |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2017-03-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0812293878 |
Realizing Roma Rights investigates anti-Roma racism and documents a growing Roma-led political movement engaged in building a more inclusive and just Europe. The book brings to the forefront voices of leading and emerging Romani scholars, from established human rights experts to policy and advocacy leaders with deep experience. Realizing Roma Rights offers detailed accounts of anti-Roma racism, political and diplomatic narratives chronicling the development of European and American policy, and critical examination of Roma-related discourse and policies in contemporary Europe. It also investigates the complex role of the European Union as a driver of progressive change and a flawed implementer of fundamental rights. This book will provide a useful source for those interested in the dynamics of contemporary stigma and discrimination, the enduring challenges of mobilizing within severely disempowered communities, and the complexities of regional and transnational human rights mechanisms. Spanning as it does a broad disciplinary range that encompasses law, history, sociology, political theory, critical race theory, human rights, organization theory, and education, Realizing Roma Rights is a useful teaching tool for interdisciplinary courses on human rights, racism and xenophobia, political theory, European studies, and minority issues. Contributors: Jacqueline Bhabha, James A. Goldston, Will Guy, Fernando Macías, David Mark, Teresa Sordé-Martí, Margareta Matache, David Meyer, Andrzej Mirga, Kálmán Mizsei, Krista Oehlke, Alexandra Oprea, Elena Rozzi, Erika Schlager, Michael Uyehara, Peter Vermeersch.
Collective Rights and the Cultural Identity of the Roma
Title | Collective Rights and the Cultural Identity of the Roma PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia Tavani |
Publisher | Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 2012-09-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004202617 |
Using Italy and the Roma as a case study, this book proves that non-discrimination provisions are not sufficient to protect the cultural identity of minorities: a system encompassing also the use of collective rights is better suited for this purpose.
The Rights of the Roma
Title | The Rights of the Roma PDF eBook |
Author | Celia Donert |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2017-12-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316821137 |
The Rights of the Roma writes Romani struggles for citizenship into the history of human rights in socialist and post-socialist Eastern Europe. If Roma have typically appeared in human rights narratives as victims, Celia Donert here draws on extensive original research in Czech and Slovak archives, sociological and ethnographic studies, and oral histories to foreground Romani activists as subjects and actors. Through a vivid social and political history of Roma in Czechoslovakia, she provides a new interpretation of the history of human rights by highlighting the role of Socialist regimes in constructing social citizenship in postwar Eastern Europe. The post-socialist human rights movement did not spring from the dissident movements of the 1970s, but rather emerged in response to the collapse of socialist citizenship after 1989. A timely study as Europe faces a major refugee crisis which raises questions about the historical roots of nationalist and xenophobic attitudes towards non-citizens.
Human Rights of Roma and Travellers in Europe
Title | Human Rights of Roma and Travellers in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Council of Europe |
Publisher | Council of Europe |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2012-04-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9287172013 |
In many European countries, the Roma and Traveller populations are still denied basic human rights and suffer blatant racism. They remain far behind others in terms of educational achievement, employment, housing and health standards, and they have virtually no political representation.Anti-Gypsyism continues to be widespread and is compounded by a striking lack of knowledge among the general population about the history of repression of Roma in Europe. In times of economic crisis, the tendency to direct frustration against scapegoats increases - and Roma and Travellers appear to be easy targets.This report presents the first overview of the human rights situation of Roma and Travellers, covering all 47 member states of the Council of Europe. Its purpose is to encourage a constructive discussion about policies towards Roma and Travellers in Europe today, focusing on what must be done in order to put an end to the discrimination and marginalisation they suffer.