The Unseen Powers: Perception, Stigma and Roma Rights
The Unseen Powers: Perception, Stigma and Roma Rights

Summary/Abstract: This essay looks briefly at several aspects of the impact of the perception of Roma – and the stigma of being regarded as “Gypsy” – on human rights issues. It notes that post-1989 Europe has produced a distinctive phenomenon of massive efforts to “pass” as non-Romani by major segments of the Romani community. It observes first of all that these efforts tend to fail, and secondly that this failure has painted the way for the first generation of Roma rights ethics. Finally, it examines in cursory form the problem that anti-Romani stigma poses for addressing human rights issues prevailing in traditional Romani communities. [....]

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