num_pages: 320
description: Realizing Roma Rights investigates anti-Roma racism and documents a growing Roma-led political movement engaged in building a more inclusive and just Europe. The book brings to the forefront voices of leading and emerging Romani scholars from established human rights experts to policy and advocacy leaders with deep experience.Realizing Roma Rights offers detailed accounts of anti-Roma racism political and diplomatic narratives chronicling the development of European and American policy and critical examination of Roma-related discourse and policies in contemporary Europe. It also investigates the complex role of the European Union as a driver of progressive change and a flawed implementer of fundamental rights.This book will provide a useful source for those interested in the dynamics of contemporary stigma and discrimination the enduring challenges of mobilizing within severely disempowered communities and the complexities of regional and transnational human rights mechanisms. Spanning as it does a broad disciplinary range that encompasses law history sociology political theory critical race theory human rights organization theory and education Realizing Roma Rights is a useful teaching tool for interdisciplinary courses on human rights racism and xenophobia political theory European studies and minority issues.Contributors: Jacqueline Bhabha James A. Goldston Will Guy Fernando Macas David Mark Teresa Sord-Mart Margareta Matache David Meyer Andrzej Mirga Klmn Mizsei Krista Oehlke Alexandra Oprea Elena Rozzi Erika Schlager Michael Uyehara Peter Vermeersch.
language: None
title: Realizing Roma Rights
publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press