Integration and the Politicisation of Roma Identity
Integration and the Politicisation of Roma Identity

Author(s): Martin Kovats
Subject(s): Inter-Ethnic Relations
Published by: Kossuth Kiadó Zt.
Summary/Abstract: This essay seeks to develop debate about the relationship between these two kinds of ‘integration’. It argues that, as a new political identity, roma has been relatively easy to integrate in mainstream politics, both intellectually and institutionally. However, this successful ‘integration’ has, on the whole, not led to the other kind of ‘integration’. Indeed, the very emergence and expansion of roma as an explicit political identity has had an ambiguous affect on the social and economic status of most ‘roma’ people.

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