The Roma situation is a macrocosm for many of the concepts that are used in globalization today. Internal displacement, racial discrimination, poverty, and persecution are both historical and current issues. Roma have been subject to their fair share of alienation, human rights violations and war crimes. NGO's associated with the protection and promotion of the Roma people use methods available to other well -established NGO's. The situation of the Roma people has also inspired a new direction in anthropology. They are connected as they have a common language, blood, traditions, culture and religion. The Roma situation has raised concerns in dozens of NGO's as well us the UN and the European Union. This paper will examine the Roma situation …show more content…
In its Poverty Reduction Strategy, it aims to stimulate poverty ridden Roma populations with investment incentives as well as providing opportunities for low-skilled labour. It then tries to focus on restructuring the economy of these nations so as to better allow the unemployed to seize opportunities in market systems. Its last stressed point is to provide better social services. The UN has examined the situation and has come to the conclusion in its Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination that solving the Roma problem is essential for the elimination of racial discrimination against other groups.(UN) It emphasized affirmative action, and mass media campaigns in the hopes of halting the traditional European perception of Roma. From the involvement of these and many more institutions, the Roma situation is finally getting the full attention it deserves, and is no longer dismissed with contempt as it once had been. These organizations have made it clear that helping the Romani people is not only necessary, but also symbolic in the way European society will deal with other minority groups in the future. One very critical change that works in the favour of Roma is the …show more content…
Well, to start off, there was an article in the Toronto Star dated 02/28/05 about the discrimination of Roma in Toronto. Six Neo-Nazi skinheads decided to openly profess their hate for gypsies outside of a hotel in Scarborough, at which Romani refugees were staying. At the trial, the case was dismissed on a technicality. The defense was that the skinheads referred to them as "gypsies" and that this did not signify "Roma." When brought before the Supreme Court, the skinheads got their just desserts.(Star) This article expands on some of the ideas in this paper. Although for the most part European Roma were the individuals being addressed, their discrimination and identity problems span the globe, and in this case the intervening NGO is the Canadian Jewish Congress, who made sure this story was kept in the public eye. As this particular event is so close to home, it gives solid claims to the transnational, transsovereign and transatlantic nature of the Diaspora. In the beginning of the paper it was mentioned that Roma are a macrocosm and have also inspired a new direction in modern anthropology. Before the 1980's, culture was seen as a fixed location. (Okely, 151) The Romani people are a prime example of the falsity of this claim and it is a macrocosm in the sense that in today's interconnected world culture is afloat. This anthropological notion is in tune with and may help provide information on modern day refugees,
Kiger, P. J. (2013, August 1). National Geographic. Retrieved March 30, 2014, from Romani Culture and Traditions: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/american-gypsies/articles/romani-culture-and-traditions/
For at least three decades race, gender and biopower have all been linked together. The three terms used, are frameworks installed by governments to manage the population by categorizing, regulating and controlling its subjects. Race, gender and biopower are intertwined to illuminate the treatment of the minority for centuries. The mistreatment, discrimination and suffering experienced by the minorities throughout history is evident in the texts provided.
Hooker explores countries of indigenous resistance and ability to organize and speculates on why Afro-Latinos are not as successful in organized and becoming recognized by their government. She suggests why formal multicultural recognition is important and what has been gained for successful groups. She claims Afro-Latinos are much less likely to gain formal recognition as only seven the fifteen Latin American countries to implement multicultural reform give collective rights to Afro-Latinos and only three give Afro-Latinos the same rights as indigenous groups. Hooker dismissed various scholars’ theories as to why indigenous conclusion as to why Afro-Latinos experience less m...
...ossible as the new ideology considered it a form of profiteering. Collectivisation of land meant that agricultural day-labour also became impossible for most Gypsies. In spite of the fact that before the war a quarter of agricultural day-labourers were Gypsies, and as such would have had a right to land, they were left out of the 1945 land reform. In the new era Gypsies were officially considered citizens with rights equal to anyone else’s. Paradoxically the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party introduced a resolution in 1961 on the ‘Gypsy problem’, considering that their situation was worse than at the end of the 19th century. According to this resolution Gypsies cannot be considered a national minority (just as in other Eastern European countries), because they do not meet the criteria for being a ‘nationality’ – lacking a motherland, a common language and history.
The Southern Diaspora was one of the largest American population movements among the white and black population. From 1900 to 1970 more than 28 million southerners left their home regions in search of better jobs in the cities and suburbs of the North and the West making “the size of the diaspora is the first revelation” (pg. 13). “The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America” by James N. Gregory shows the migration of black southerners and whites together to see the connections and differences. Gregory’s main argument is that the southern diaspora greatly influenced contributions to religion, music and politics that shaped America.
"Genocide of European Roma (Gypsies), 1939–1945." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 10 June 2013. Web. 05 Mar. 2014.
While the attempted emigration of substantial numbers of Roma in 1997 and 1998 brought the issue of Roma rights onto the Czech political agenda, the EU Commission's 1999 Progress Report concluded that greater attention to the issue of the Roma in the Czech Republic had not improved their situation.
The main victims of genocide during the Holocaust were the Jewish; however, they were not the only ones. Gypsies, also known as the Roma, also made up a large portion of the casualties that occurred in concentration camps. This innocent group of people, who move from place to place, who listened to different music and had different morals and beliefs, were also victims of the mass genocide led by Adolf Hitler. They were targeted and seen as “unhygienic, antisocial nuisances” (Tarr) and were a threat to the Nazis’ ideal German society. And since the Nazis thought they must do something about the Gypsies, this is what they did, all starting in 1899 (Rosenburg): they pinned each gypsy down by making identification papers for each individual, categorizing them by hair and eye color and cranium size, fingerprinted each person, made family trees of the gypsy families, then forced them into settling permanently into flats causing them to sell their caravans and belongings, forcibly sterilizing some individuals, and eventually sending them to concentration camps and murdering them.
Balibar argued that the superiority filling with the new racism, appear ‘in the very type of criteria applied in thinking the difference between cultures’. Even if it indicate itself egalitarian but separatist. People who come from outside of the Europe is seen as contributing to the separatist. The ‘new racism’’s legacy is the cultural frame is still placing at the majority of the language and politics of the mainstream and extreme right in Europe. Italy did a lot to protect its cultural integrity when migrants bought the cultures from the South and outside the EU since 1990s onward. It focuses on African and Eastern European immigrants, the discourse is related to citizenship, immigration legislation and suggestions for putting immigrants together. In Europe, Australia and North America these political and social tensions have seems to be focus on two main aspects of issues. Firstly, in welfare systems aspect, the asylum and refugee groups and undercover or undocumented persons might bring perceived effect on social
Transnationalism and diaspora have ‘fuzzy boundaries.’ While transnationalism applies to migrants’ durable ties across countries, a diaspora refers to religious or national groups living outside an imagined homeland. One of important features of the diaspora is the refusal to assimilate.
In today’s society, it is acknowledgeable to assert that the concepts of race and ethnicity have changed enormously across different countries, cultures, eras, and customs. Even more, they have become less connected and tied with ancestral and familial ties but rather more concerned with superficial physical characteristics. Moreover, a great deal can be discussed the relationship between ethnicity and race. Both race and ethnicity are useful and counterproductive in their ways. To begin, the concept of race is, and its ideas are vital to society because it allows those contemporary nationalist movements which include, racist actions; to become more familiar to members of society. Secondly, it has helped to shape and redefine the meaning of
The concept diaspora was derived from Greek and means the migration, movement, or scattering of people from their homeland that share the some links or common cultural elements to a home whether real or imagined. The reason why the term ‘diaspora’ is important to understand and is useful because it refers not only because its linked and refers to globalization, linking and connecting place, social consequences of migration, but also, to a form of consciousness and an awareness of home at a more personal level. The feelings, relationships and identities that is often very deeply meaningful to migrants. (Raghuram and Erel, 2014, p. 153 -
According to the 1951 Refugee Convention, refugee is a term applied to anyone who is outside his/her own country and cannot return due to the fear of being persecuted on the basis of race, religion, nationality, membership of a group or political opinion. Many “refugees” that the media and the general public refer to today are known as internally displaced persons, which are people forced to flee their homes to avoid things such as armed conflict, generalized violations of human rights or natural and non-natural disasters. These two groups are distinctly different but fall ...
To many people today, Arab immigrants are the latest group of a long list that have come to the United States since it’s’ inception. However, people of Arab origin have been immigrating to the United States since before The Declaration of Independence was penned in 1776, and haven’t really stopped since. There were not many Arab immigrants at this time, however. The first notable “wave” of immigrants was not until the late nineteenth century. Since then, there have been multiple distinct waves, but most often they are categorized into two groups: pre-World War 2, and post-World War 2, as the demographics and ideologies are inherently different. As a result, it may seem quite obvious that their presence in American life as well as their identification in such has changed. However, it would be foolish to state that there is no continuity between several aspects of Arab American life then and today. Because both are present in American politics, we can only measure whether there has been a greater degree of continuity or change within past or present-day Arab-American experiences. There are several aspects to both claims. However, after careful analysis it is clear that there has been a greater degree of change amongst Arab Americans because of the change in how they view themselves as a collective entity.
The Roma Gypsies, like the Jews, were chosen for complete genocide. Both groups of people were chosen completely based on their respective race. The Roma gypsies were not characterized by religion like the Jews, however, like the Jews; they were not respected throughout history and wer...