The Young Roma Females in the Czech Republic: Between (Post)Socialist Surveillance and Fast-Track Integration
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | In the Czech Republic, the Roma who were born after the Velvet Revolution grapple with the aftermath of socialist practices targeted to depriving their identity, melting them among “white”, “major”, or “hosting” nation. During the last census, less than 10 000 citizens registered themselves as the Roma while the total number of the Roma population is more than 200 000. Previous practices of segregation against the Roma either remain routine policies on the local level (as limiting the access to the diversity of educational trajectories) or become to be forgotten (multiple surveillance under the Roma including such extremes as sterilization and children’s removal and daily control under the Roma families) without appropriate reflection – even by the Roma themselves. Thus, the socialist past affects the Roma in two interrelated ways, reproducing the patterns of segregation and limiting the options for working out the Roma identity. |
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