“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,…
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…
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Zargari (or Romāno, as it is called by its speakers) is the only genuine Indo-Aryan language still spoken in Iran. The purpose of this article, which is mainly based on the author’s field work, is (a) to provide a brief, but at the same time precise, description of the main characteristics of Zargari phonology, morphology,…
The Roma population in Bulgaria counts almost a million people and most of them live in ghetto-type settlements outside the towns and villages. Very often in the same settlements there is a government school, but the schools are segregated and the pupils who attend them are those with Roma origins only. To read the full…
The aim of this paper is to present good educational practices from Bulgaria that relate to Roma education. In the so-called Years of Transition, educational conditions changed considerably. Non-governmental organizations have attempted to promote high-quality education for Roma children. The Bulgarian Ministry of Education has made various changes in legislation which now allow Roma children…
To read the full article click here This article was originally published on Hristo Kyuchukov’s website and it republished with the permission of author.