CEE: A Roundup on the Roma Issues
Written byVeronica Khokhlova
An anti-discrimination Roma flash mob/dance duel in Bucharest (video – here), and a report by Bulgarian Roma students on media coverage of Roma-related issues – at TOL's Roma Transitions blog. Education for the Roma children in the UK, the Czech Republic and Slovakia – at the Economist's Eastern Approaches blog. (Update: TOL's East of Center also has a post on “the Czech Republic’s segregated education policy” for the Roma students.)
Written byVeronica Khokhlova
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Thanks for the great overview. I have come across related posts. Slovak Governance Institute has recently published a study on Roma children from Slovakia in UK schools [in Slovak] http://www.governance.sk/index.php?id=1835
There’s also been an interesting series of blog posts published on the Voices from Eurasia blog. http://europeandcis.undp.org/blog/2011/11/10/the-bitter-truth-behind-the-roma-question-%E2%80%93-what-can-be-done-part-3/
Andrei Ivanov is basically arguing that the anti-Roma violence in Bulgaria was not caused by ‘a racist society with nefarious institutions’ but rather by a ‘failure to share the benefits of transition with the whole of society’ and as usual the minority groups getting the scapegoat role.