The roma of central and eastern Europe: Constructing a stateless nation

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This chapter focuses on the role of both these distinguishing factors in shaping the goals and effectiveness of Romani political participation in central and Eastern Europe. The Romani population of Eastern Europe is difficult to characterize. Largely in response to the recommendations of these international bodies, the Czech government introduced administrative changes to the law designed to resolve the problem of statelessness, and, in the aftermath of widely-publicized exoduses of Czech and Slovak Romani refugees to Great Britain and Canada, formally approved a critical report on the status of Roma in the Czech Republic. The social marginalization evident in the history of relations between Eastern Europe’s Roma and non-Roma populations is clearly reflected in the nature of Romani political participation during the post-communist period. Of course, such population movements occurred throughout the communist period, as anti-Roma policies and poor economic conditions in Eastern Europe fueled successive waves of Romani migration to western Europe.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Politics of National Minority Participation in Post-Communist Societies
Subtitle of host publicationState-Building, Democracy and Ethnic Mobilization
PublisherTaylor and Francis
Pages189-212
Number of pages24
ISBN (Electronic)9781317455301
ISBN (Print)0765605287, 9780765605283
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2019
Externally publishedYes

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