The Price of Roma Integration
The Price of Roma Integration

Author(s): András Bíró
Subject(s): Inter-Ethnic Relations, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Kossuth Kiadó Zt.
Summary/Abstract: This essay is offered as a contribution to a dialogue of engaged and like-minded individuals, roma and non-roma alike. in particular it concerns the future of the integration of this transnational community into a globalised world. As i have been entrusted with the far from easy task of kicking off this dialogue, i feel an obligation to state my biases at the outset, with the proviso that the conclusions i may have reached are nothing else but hypotheses based on empirical experience with no claim to be objective or scientific. therefore they are open to debate, correction, rejection or in the best case, to being taken into account. Moreover i apologise in advance to my roma readers if, in its arguments or hypotheses, this essay may hurt their sensitivities or feelings, since its motivation is to unveil some of the reasons for pervasive prejudices and not to justify them.

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