ANTI-ROMA DISCOURSES: THE STRUGGLE FOR ROMA HOLOCAUST RECOGNITION, COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND IDENTITY
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeuropaea.2020.2.13Keywords:
Roma civil rights movement, Roma genocide, Antigypsyism, Memory, Identity, Recognition, RemembranceAbstract
This paper aims to trace and chart the interplay between the struggle for recognition of the Genocide and the Roma civil rights movement, respectively to what extent memory, commemoration, reconciliation play a role and contribute to building a collective identity for the Roma, the Roma narrative – in which persecution and past trauma are important. The paper will also analyze the struggle for recognition and identity as a resistance to the manifestations of Antigypsyism in contemporary society. Furthermore, the paper proposes to analyze the European dimension of the Roma mobilization, respectively to what extent there is a Europe-wide movement for recognition of the Roma Holocaust, given the many Roma groups, different regional histories and the heterogeneous identity of the Roma.References
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