The Romani Movement in Romania: Institutionalization and (De)mobilization

Rostás, Iulius

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“…Chapter 1 is a telling starting point when Van Baar examines the nexus between research and activism by mapping the development of the Romani social movement in and beyond Europe. In doing so, he draws out three phases of development which also show the emergence of "nongovernmental" as a distinct category of rule and research: (1) the emergence of CSOs (civil society organizations) funded by Western donors and IGOs (international governing organizations); (2) these organizations becoming "professionalized" and adapting to "well-defined funding streams, " while forfeiting their independence in adapting to this new power relationship (known as the emergence of the "Gypsy industry" (e.g., see Rostas 2009); and (3) the emergence of an "ethnic turn" whereby Roma integration strategies became the focus of policymaking. Van Baar opts, as he has done previously (2011), to move beyond the binary "success" or "failure" model of understanding Romani activism while critically sketching out its development.…”

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Sam Beck and Ana Ivasiuc, eds. 2018. Roma Activism: Reimagining Power and Knowledge. New York: Berghahn Books.

Biggar

2019

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Sam Beck and Ana Ivasiuc, eds. 2018. Roma Activism: Reimagining Power and Knowledge. New York: Berghahn Books.

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2019

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“…Instead of being what development jargon calls Community-Based Organizations, many grassroots Roma NGOs straddle across kinship alliances rather than institutionalized structures of citizens' networks. Critics of the current paradigm of the Romani movement have coined such organizations the 'ethno-business' (Kóczé and Trehan, 2009: 66) or 'Gypsy industry' of development aimed at Roma (Cossée, 2000;Trehan, 2001Trehan, , 2009Rorke and Wilkens, 2006;Rostas, 2009). eir organization along kinship networks increases their exposure to social control manifested through gossip and to what is framed as 'envy' from other members of the community.…”

Section: E Diator S E X P E Rt S C Ou N C I L or S : A Rom A S mentioning

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‘We’ll Help Ourselves, but What’s in It for Us?’ Conflict, Development and Social Mobility among Roma in Romania

Ivasiuc

2020

Slovenský Národopis / Slovak Ethnology

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Roma-related development and policy discourse often represents the Roma development ‘subjects’ as disempowered victims. Against the pervasiveness of such narratives, a close look at the local level conflicts arising during the implementation of a World Bank development project in destitute Roma communities from Romania lays bare the strategies of unassisted social mobility in which a group of Roma engage. Not large or well-defined enough to be constituted into a real ‘class’ in sociological terms, this strategic group is made up of Roma civil servants (mediators, local experts, Romani language teachers) who negotiate their engagement in development projects on their own terms and use the material and immaterial resources that projects offer to enact their own upward social mobility. Often, though, this comes at the cost of a growing socio-economic gap between themselves and the most destitute parts of Roma communities, which complicates their involvement in development projects. The article underlines the necessity of taking into account both the strategies of unassisted social mobility of Roma development brokers, and the internal power imbalances that the development apparatus inevitably ends up producing in Roma communities.

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“…Roma political parties have been unable to mobilize Roma constituencies and become significant players on the political stage in any country. Mainstream political parties have systematically ignored Roma grievances and claims and not included them in their political programs, mostly due to antigypsyism in society (Rostas 2009;McGarry 2010). Roma also lack a tradition of mobilizing themselves for political aims.…”

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“…The migration of Roma was another important factor that was used to pressure the governments of the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania to develop specific measures for Roma. A wave of Roma migrating to Western Europe was recorded in the first years after the fall of communism, which led to the signing of readmission agreements with several EU member states, as was the case with the agreement between Germany and Romania in 1992 (Rostas 2009).…”

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A Task for Sisyphus: Why Europe’s Roma Policies Fail

Rostás¹

2019

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PrefaCeDespite the increasing number of policy measures and initiatives targeting the Roma in Europe, their position has continued to worsen. This condition stems from a policy paradox that requires answers from policymakers, activists and academics. This book offers several answers to the question why policies towards Roma in Europe are failing. According to the European Commission, Roma in Europe number between 10 and 12 million people. Roma have been in Europe for centuries, and have been key cultural agents across the continent, both historically and in the present day. At the same time, Roma are Europe's most marginalized minority group. Over the past twenty-five years, numerous policy initiatives have been launched to address the situation of Europe's Roma. The most prominent of these were the national Roma strategies developed by the governments of the then EU candidate member states in Central and East Europe; the Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-2015 initiated by the World Bank and the Open Society Institute and, most recently, the EU Roma Framework introduced in 2011.Currently there are numerous articles published on the situation of the Roma and some focus on the narrower topic of policies towards Roma, but there is no comprehensive approach to policy-making towards the Roma in Europe that takes on the policy paradox described above.A prime cause of the limited impact of these policies on the Roma's situation is the lack of ethnic relevance of these policies, that is, their failure to take into adequate consideration the crucial importance of Romani ethnic identity as a causal factor in the social exclusion and

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The Romani Movement in Romania: Institutionalization and (De)mobilization

Cited by 21 publications

References 3 publications

Sam Beck and Ana Ivasiuc, eds. 2018. Roma Activism: Reimagining Power and Knowledge. New York: Berghahn Books.

Sam Beck and Ana Ivasiuc, eds. 2018. Roma Activism: Reimagining Power and Knowledge. New York: Berghahn Books.

‘We’ll Help Ourselves, but What’s in It for Us?’ Conflict, Development and Social Mobility among Roma in Romania

A Task for Sisyphus: Why Europe’s Roma Policies Fail

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