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The rights of the Roma : the struggle for citizenship in postwar Czechoslovakia / Celia Donert, University of Liverpool.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Donert, Celia, 1975- author.
- Series:
- Human rights in history.
- Human rights in history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Romanies--Czechoslovakia--History--20th century.
- Romanies.
- Romanies--Czechoslovakia--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Romanies--Czechoslovakia--Political activity.
- Czechoslovakia--Ethnic relations--History--20th century.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction Legacies of 1919 Stalinist gypsy workers But Roma are rural! Cracking down on nomadism Into the 1960s : politics gets personal Prague spring for Roma! THe 1970s : human rights, minority rights, Roma rights?Losing rights after 1989? Conclusion
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-316-81945-0
- 1-316-81164-6
- 1-316-82113-7
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