POZICE ROMSKÉHO PORADCE JAKO PŘÍKLAD REGIONÁLNÍ DISPARITY ROMSKÉ INTEGRACE V ČESKÉ REPUBLICE
INSTITUTE OF ROMA ADVISOR AS A CASE OF REGIONAL DISPARITIES IN ROMA INTEGRATION IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Author(s): Petr Hušek
Subject(s): Public Administration, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Roma advisor; Roma integration; delegated powers; Roma minority; regions; Czech Republic;
Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on regional disparities in ensuring the delegated powers of exercising the rights of Roma minority, specifically on the position of Roma adviser in municipalities with extended powers. Available data, national documents, policy papers are starting point for analysis of changing institutional back-up of the position of Roma adviser as a tool for ensuring the integration of the Roma minority at the regional level. Subsequently, there is a comparison of regional disparities in the positions of Roma advisor at the regional level. Reasons for observed disparities are identified in the persistent legislative vacuum, which arose after the abolition of district councils accompanied by the transfer of the delegated powers of exercising the rights of members of the Roma community to the municipalities with extended powers. Regional authorities are unable to enforce the establishment of the position of Roma advisor in municipalities with extended powers. Therefore, many municipalities prefer to not have any Roma advisor at all, or mostly Roma advisor became part time-job. Sometimes reluctance to ensure the Roma integration agenda by municipalities is on rise, which we can finally be seen on the three main types of argumentation lines used to defend the non-existence of the position of Roma advisor in the administrative architecture of municipalities.

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