Romii din România – o identitate stigmatizată istoric
The Romanian Roma – a historically stigmatized identity

Summary/Abstract: By using the specialized bibliography on the history of Roma in Romania, previous and current field research, collections of Romanian folklore about Roma and Roma folklore about the Roma identity marked by racism, the article aims to identify the causes and manifestations of the stigmatization of Roma ethnic identity and of the internalization of this stigma.The results of the research led to the statement that history has fundamentally influenced the structuring of the self-image of the Roma, and therefore the contemporary Roma ethnic identity, which is found both in the Romanian folklore about the Roma and in the Roma folklore about identity and racism.The conclusions of the article include a recommendation to make cultural and educational public policies more accountable through the adoption of reparative measures in order to destigmatize and reconstruct the contemporary Roma ethnic identity in the spirit of reparations law and transitional justice.

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