Polityka państwa a bezpieczeństwo kulturowe mniejszości narodowych
State policy and cultural security of national minorities

The case of the Roma in the Czech Republic

Summary/Abstract: Belonging to non-military security sectors cultural security is analyzed in this article in relation to national and ethnic minorities. The focus is the Roma minority, for which – due to the cultural specificity - the preservation of cultural security is a challenge. The main aim of this article is to present these aspects of Czech policy towards the Roma minority, which affect the ability to preserve its cultural security. In particular, discussed were issues related to the consolidation or even building a national identity of Roma, Roma education, protection of their culture and the correlation between social exclusion and cultural security of the Roma minority in the Czech Republic.

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