The Rhetoric of Anti-discrimination in the Changing Relationships between the Majority Population and Roma: Case of Bergitka Roma in the Carpathian Vi Cover Image

Retoryka antydyskryminacyjna w zmie­niających się relacjach społeczeństwa większościowego z Romami. Przypadek Bergitka Roma we wsi karpackiej
The Rhetoric of Anti-discrimination in the Changing Relationships between the Majority Population and Roma: Case of Bergitka Roma in the Carpathian Vi

Author(s): Ewa Nowicka, Maciej Witkowski
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Roma; Roma integration; discrimination against Roma; cultural distance; political correctness

Summary/Abstract: The authors present ethnographic material gathered over several years of observing the life of the community Bergitka Roma and their non-Romani environment in the Carpathian village. The main object of the analysis are changing linguistic practices and ways of referring to Roma among education professionals, officials and local decision-makers who come into contact with the inhabitants of Roma settlements. The collected material shows how relations of local Roma community with non-Roma environment are shaped by policy of the Roma integration coordinated on the EU-level. The text is a case study of the relationship between the expansion of the new official language, used to describe the situation of the Roma and interaction of the majority population with them and the persistence of negative attitudes of the local community.

  • Issue Year: 211/2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 143-163
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish