NEW MILLENIUM – NEW CHALLENGES: CHANGE FOR BETTER
NEW MILLENIUM, NEW CHALLENGES
Memory, Identity and Roma Transnational Nationalism
To read the full article click here Kapralski, S.(1998), Memory, Identity and Roma Transnational Nationalism,Media and Cultural Memory, vol:19, pp. 195-217 This article republished with the permission of author.
Identity Building and the Holocaust: Roma Political Nationalism
To read the full article click here Kapralski, S. (1997), Identity Building and the Holocaust: Roma Political Nationalism. Nationalities Papers. vol:25 (2),269-283 This article republished with the permission of author Slawomir Kapralski
From Language Barriers to Social Capital: Serbian as the Language of Education for Romani Children
The Roma represent one of the major ethnic minorities in a large number of European countries. It is Europes largest transnational minority, a non-territorial nation of Europe. According to Guy (2003, p. 48), there are approximately between seven and eight and a half million Gypsies or Roma living in Europe, which makes them the largest…
Case studies Improving the living conditions of Roma, Czech Republic. Washington: WB
To reda the full case study click here This case study republished with the permission of author Stepan Ripke
Czech Republic: Field Research Report
“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
Who is Afraid of Rromani Language
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,…
A Succin History of the Rromani Language
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…
Genocide of the Roma in the Holocaust
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 Need for a European Policy Supporting Romany Culture
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…