Securitizing the Roma of Hungary
Securitizing the Roma of Hungary

Author(s): Tamás Csíki
Subject(s): Security and defense, Studies in violence and power, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Ethnic minorities; Roma; Hungary;
Summary/Abstract: The intensifying right-wing extremism – through popular movements, political parties, and paramilitary organizations – seen in Central Europe has been subject to a great deal of increased scrutiny in recent years (Abbas et al. 2011, Langenbacher and Schellenberg 2011, Schiedel 2011, Goodwin et al. 2012, Mammone et al. 2012, Mareš 2012, Melzer and Serafin 2013). Within this wider framework of analysis, which also includes the examination of nationalist, populist, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigration elements, extremist anti-Roma tendencies and practices in Central Europe have also become more and more studied. However, comparative studies in a systematic manner that could locate and identify such practices, and also explain the logic of similar events and tendencies in Central European countries, are still sorely missing. Some analyses have already highlighted repeated cases of violence and examples of attempts at securitizing the relations of Roma (minority) and non-Roma (majority) communities (Political Capital 2010:56–61, ERRC 2012 a, Bodnárová and Vicenová 2013).

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