The Uneasy Road towards Remedying the Economic and Cultural Disadvantage of the Roma in Slovakia

Lajcakova, Jarmila

doi:10.1163/138548707x181557

“…Different studies by international organizations such the Minority Rights Group in London, (Guy and Kovats (n.d.) and individual researchers, such as Lajcakova (2007) have reported about the situation of Roma in East European countries. The Minority Rights Group in a report about EUfunded projects in Hungary, Slovakia and in Czech Republic notes that the study uses different «methods of participatory evaluation to identify the experience of Roma beneficiaries and other stakeholders in the projects, and makes recommendations for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of future EU-funded initiatives aimed at improving the lives of Roma people in the Central and Eastern European region.…”

Section: Roma Communities: Poverty and Racismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Socio-Communicative Language of Empowerment of Roma: a Case Study

Kyuchukov¹

2022

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This article presents the results of a case study with Romani speakers from Germany. Poverty among Roma communities in Europe is the reason for the growth of racism in almost all EU countries. On the other hand, Roma communities are becoming more organized and responding to existing forms of racism. One form of Roma response is emancipation and expansion of the language they use. The purpose of the articleis to show a template model for language analysis of spoken text. The article also shows the empowerment of the Roma community in Germany, openly opposing existing forms of Antiromanism. Research methods and techniques. The study included one Romani speaker, a young Romani man born in Serbia who immigrated to Germany as a child. In his everyday communicative ecology, he speaks four languages: Romani, Serbian, German and English. Sociolinguistic methods are used to analyze his language. When speaking German, he uses lexical units of Romani and English, and at the same time uses various sociolinguistic strategies known among multilinguals. Results and discussion. A Romani speaker is fluent in German, and uses situational lexical borrowings from Romani and English, code-switching sentences, discursive strategies such as cursing and neologisms. The presented model of speech analysis can be used for further sociolinguistic research, analyzing the data of spoken spoken language. Conclusions.The powers of the Roma in supporting Ukraine in the Russian-Ukrainian war are shown, during this war is condemned. As an illustration of empowerment, the appeal of the Roma organization to various international institutions, as well as the recommendations of the EU Council from 2021 on equality, integration and participation of Roma are cited.Keywords:Roma, empowerment, language, conversational analysis

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“…Different studies by international organizations such the Minority Rights Group in London, (Guy and Kovats (n.d.) and individual researchers, such as Lajcakova (2007) have reported about the situation of Roma in East European countries. The Minority Rights Group in a report about EUfunded projects in Hungary, Slovakia and in Czech Republic notes that the study uses different «methods of participatory evaluation to identify the experience of Roma beneficiaries and other stakeholders in the projects, and makes recommendations for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of future EU-funded initiatives aimed at improving the lives of Roma people in the Central and Eastern European region.…”

Section: Roma Communities: Poverty and Racismmentioning

confidence: 99%