Conţinuturi şi valenţe ale discursului politic referitor la etnicii romi în presa scrisă românească
Contents and valences of the political discourse regarding the Roma ethnics in the Romanian written press

Summary/Abstract: In this research report we propose a synthetic presentation of the results for the analysis of the political discourse reflected in the written press with reference to the Roma ethnic group. This research was carried out within the European international project PolRom, aiming at identifying and understanding attitudes towards Roma people, as well as the identification of effective methods to combat their discrimination. In this analysis, we were interested in the extent to which the Roma ethnicity is a topic present in the Romanian political discourse and what type of discourse is dominant (hostile, ally, paternalistic or neutral). The method used is the thematic analysis, and the analysed corpus consists of articles from the Romanian online written press in 2018, in which statements of politicians and state authorities with reference to Roma appear directly quoted. Results show that the political discourse on this community is very poorly represented in the Romanian press. The statements of Romanian politicians and authorities regarding the Roma were, for the most part, neutral and circumstantially triggered by international events. The voices of the Roma are absent, and the negative references to them belong mainly to external voices, except for a single statement of a Romanian politician throughout the entire year.

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