The Rights of the Roma: The Struggle for Citizenship in Postwar Czechoslovakia (Human Rights in History)

Donert, Celia

ISBN 10: 1316629368 / ISBN 13: 9781316629369

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Rights of the Roma: The Struggle for Citizenship in Postwar Czechoslovakia (Human Rights in History)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1316629368
• ISBN 13: 9781316629369
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Rights of the Roma writes Romani struggles for citizenship into the history of human rights in socialist and post-socialist Eastern Europe. If Roma have typically appeared in human rights narratives as victims, Celia Donert here draws on extensive original research in Czech and Slovak archives, sociological and ethnographic studies, and oral histories to foreground Romani activists as subjects and actors. Through a vivid social and political history of Roma in Czechoslovakia, she provides a new interpretation of the history of human rights by highlighting the role of Socialist regimes in constructing social citizenship in postwar Eastern Europe. The post-socialist human rights movement did not spring from the dissident movements of the 1970s, but rather emerged in response to the collapse of socialist citizenship after 1989. A timely study as Europe faces a major refugee crisis which raises questions about the historical roots of nationalist and xenophobic attitudes towards non-citizens.

About the Author

Celia Donert is Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. She received her Ph.D. from the European University Institute, Florence, and has held research fellowships in Berlin, Bratislava, Paris, Potsdam, and Prague.