Bibliograph

The rights of the Roma, the struggle for citizenship in postwar Czechoslovakia, Celia Donert, University of Liverpool

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The rights of the Roma, the struggle for citizenship in postwar Czechoslovakia, Celia Donert, University of Liverpool

Language

eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The rights of the Roma

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Celia Donert, University of Liverpool

Series statement

Human rights in history

Sub title

the struggle for citizenship in postwar Czechoslovakia

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

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