Case studies Improving the living conditions of Roma, Czech Republic. Washington: WB
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To reda the full case study click here This case study republished with the permission of author Stepan Ripke
“Protecting the Rights of Romani Children in the Child Protection System in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Romania and Slovakia” To read the full article click here This report republished with the permission of author Stepan Ripka
National languages have seldom been a restful issue in History. In this respect, the Rromani language is by no means an exception and one can observe a very complicated system of polemics about the various aspects of its affirmation: as a language and as a national one, as a mean of in-group and trans-frontier communication,…
La popolazione romanì, costituita da diversi gruppi che si autodeterminano come Rom, Sinti, Kale, Manouches e Romanichals, rappresenta, con oltre undici milioni di persone, la più grande minoranza etnica europea. Presenti in ogni Stato dell’Unione Europea sono conosciuti con l’eteronimo peggiorativo di zingari e parlano la lingua romanì. In Italia il 60% dei 170 mila…
The Indian orign of the Rromani language and people is not anymore seriously questionned. Seminal discussions are currently rather held about its current Indian profile and the part of other elements in its constitution. As highlighted by Sir Ralph Turner, one of the most outstanding indologists of the 20th century, the craddle of the old…
Roma, commonly but inaccurately called Gypsies, were the only other population besides the Jews who were targeted for extermination on racial grounds in the Final Solution. They arrived in Europe about the year 1300 from India, which they had left nearly three centuries before as a military population of mixed, non-Aryan origin assembled to fight…
The Romany culture is the heritage of humanity. It is a transnational culture and full of prismatic complex facets that survives in Europe and the world in conditions that are often difficult to more than six centuries. She is alive thanks to the survival strategies implemented by different groups of Roma, Sinti, Manouches, Kale and…