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JASENOVAC: THEIR STORY MUST BE TOLD

Author: Anna Krainova

Unfortunately, people don't talk about the genocide of the Roma very often, which is why many people don't know about it at all. During the Second World War, the Ustasha, collaborators of the Nazis, killed the vast majority of Roma in the territories...

INFLUENCE THE SLAVIC LANGUAGES ON THE ROMANI LANGUAGE

Author: Anna Krainova

It is worth starting with how the Slavic languages influenced the phonetics (sound system) of the Romani language. One of the main borrowed phonetic features was the palatalization of consonants. In linguistics, palatalization of consonants is...

BORROWED WORDS FROM SLAVIC LANGUAGES IN THE ROMANI LANGUAGE

Author: Anna Krainova

Slavic languages affected all levels of Romani: phonology (system of sounds), lexicon (vocabulary), morphology (word structure), and syntax (sentence structure). The most obvious, but at the same time extensive level is the lexical one, and this...

ROMA PEOPLE AND PROFESSIONAL SPORT: AN IMPOSSIBLE COMBINATION?

Author: Maura Madeddu

The Olympic and Paralympic Games have traditionally represented a moment of peace and respect, in which the huge physical and mental efforts put in place by the athletes always goes hand-in-hand with impressive sportsmanship. Indeed, there is no...

HOW THE EUROPEAN UNION FIGHTS HATE SPEECH AGAINST NATIONAL MINORITIES

Author: Eva Ibanez

Hate speech remains one of the most pervasive threats to equality and human dignity across Europe. Ethnic minorities — and in particular the Roma community — continue to face harmful stereotypes, online abuse, and even hate-motivated violence. In...

ROMA INTEGRATION IN TURKEY: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE FIRST NATIONAL FORUM

Autorica: Deniz Lal Secgin

The First Public Dialogue Forum on Roma Integration was held in Ankara, Turkey, on September 13, 2017, bringing together around 45 participants, including representatives from the Ministry of Education, Ministry of EU Affairs, Ministry of Labour and...

ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: ANOTHER DIMENSION OF ANTIGYPSYISM

Author: Maura Madeddu

Investigative journalists, human rights activists, as well as a small, yet very active group of scholars, have been debating this issue under a more systematic perspective, studying how this kind of phenomena contributes to fuel discrimination and...

THE PERSECUTION OF ROMA IN ITALY (1861-1945)

Author: Maura Madeddu

There are several factors that can explain this major obstacle. The main one emerges as a direct consequence of the process of continuous exclusion at the disadvantage of Roma: given that they were more often than not expelled, forgotten, and even...

STUDYING ROMANI LAW: A NEW TOOL FOR INTEGRATION?

Author: Maura Madeddu

Law was always a crucial element in the history of mankind. Through centuries, it evolved to include and further regulate new problems or to ensure that the rights and obligations of individuals are protected. The last reason was, originally, also...

PROTECTION OF MINORITY LANGUAGES: INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS

Author: Maura Madeddu

Minorities are groups of people who share a common culture, a religion and/or a language which are different from those shared by the majority of the population residing in a given State. This definition, which is quite broad and general, tries to...