A Contemporary History of Exclusion : The Roma Issue in Hungary from 1945 to 2015 /

This study presents the changing situation of the Roma in the 2nd half of the 20th century. It examines the effects of the policies of the Hungarian state towards minorities by analyzing legal regulations, policy documents, archival sources and sociological surveys. The authors repudiate common ster...

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Main Author: Majtenyi, Balázs
Other Authors: Majtenyi, György
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Hungarian
Published: New York : CEU Press, Central European University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Contexts of Gypsy/Roma identity and history
  • On the sources of Gypsy/Roma history
  • Who (what) is (was) Hungarian or Gypsy/Roma?
  • "Comrades, if you have a heart" : the history of the Gypsy issue, 1945-1961
  • The construction and spread of the state socialist system
  • Policy and Gypsies
  • Modernization and Gypsy communities
  • Disciplinary state
  • The impossibility of self-organization
  • Minority issue
  • Discourses on social policy and equality
  • "Life goes on" : the Hungarian party-state and assimilation
  • Social policy and the Gypsies
  • Wage work
  • Housing
  • Social system
  • Education
  • Scientific approaches
  • Gypsy images
  • The transformation of discourse
  • Disciplinary power, disciplinary society
  • Police and agents
  • "Health supervisors"
  • The national minority issue
  • National movement
  • The "ethnic interpretation" of history
  • Roma policy after the regime change
  • Minority issue
  • Prospects for multiculturalism
  • Minority (self- )government?
  • Divide at Impera : the opportunities and impossibilities of self-organization
  • Movement
  • National minority culture, national culture
  • Questions of equal treatment and equal opportunity
  • Anti-discrimination
  • Equal opportunity
  • Roma programs
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Social policy and the Roma
  • Aid
  • Segregation
  • Disciplinary society
  • The transformation of discourses
  • Research methods
  • Panopticon : Roma policy, 2010-2015
  • The Hungarian National Cooperation System
  • The anti-egalitarian character of the system
  • Changing minority legislation
  • New social policy?
  • Violence
  • The shift
  • Summary: Decades of exclusion.