NATIONAL IDENTITY AND SOCIAL POSITION OF THE ROMA IN SERBIA
NATIONAL IDENTITY AND SOCIAL POSITION OF THE ROMA IN SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: Despite the growing number, as well as a relative share of the Roma in total population of the Republic of Serbia, their socio-economic position doesn’t show signs of visible improvement. First Decade of Roma Inclusion, from 2005 to 2015, which Serbia presided over during 2009, makes exclusion of the Roma population from Serbian social life socially visible and more comprehensible for the wider community. Some research conducted during that period shows certain progress in the priority areas of the Decade: education, employment, housing and health. During the last ten years, many laws, which have direct or indirect influence of the improvement of status of Roma population in Serbia, have been passed, especially having in mind enabling the establishment of national councils of the national minorities, as well as National council or the Roma national minority. However, Roma community, compared to other national minorities in Serbia, is in more unfavorable social position. The causes of such a position are partly due to the insufficiently built national identity and the complex problems that the Roma themselves face in the process of developing their cultural identity. In this paper there are analyzed socio-economic characteristics of the Roma population according to the last census of population of the Republic of Serbia and their correlation with national identity of the Roma population.

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