Considerations Regarding the Legislative Proposal Establishing an Official Name to Use for the Roma Ethnics Cover Image

Cateva Consideratii Privind Propunerea Legislativa de Stabilire a Denumirii Oficiale de Utilizat pentru Etnia Romilor
Considerations Regarding the Legislative Proposal Establishing an Official Name to Use for the Roma Ethnics

Author(s): Mihaela Roxana Prisacariu
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: national minority; discrimination; Roma ethnics; Gypsy; Law regarding the terminology used for the Gypsy ethnics

Summary/Abstract: The study analyzes the new legislative proposal regarding the terminology used for the Gypsy ethnics, highlighting that the subject of the right to choose one’s ethnic name belongs only to the ethnic group itself, as an expression of the person’s right to selfdetermination. Any public decision disregarding this right is deemed to be rejected by the ethnic group and by the European institutions as contrary to international law and to European values, as well.

  • Issue Year: I/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 107-116
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian