Romani Communities and Transformative Change

"This is a must read for all who believe that the significant strengthening of a social Europe will benefit all, including the Roma, the largest ethnic minority in Europe." Huub van Baar, Justus Liebig University Giessen and University of Amsterdam

“This volume provides an insightful vision that challenges conventional discourses and analyses on Romani identity, poverty and exclusion. It brings together activist and scholarly voices from the Roma community, supported by those of researchers, to create a set of new visions to address the challenges that many Roma face today.” Human Rights Review

"The contributor list is a roll-call of leading thinker-actors in Romani Studies. The afterword by German Romani Green MEP Romeo Franz shows the need for words to become action." Thomas Acton, Bucks New University

"Roma people in Europe have been socially excluded for too long. Now is the time to right the housing and social policy wrongs. These are important ideas for a ‘Social Europe’."

Jo Richardson, De Montfort University

“A timely and eloquent invitation to rethink our understanding of the plight of Romani communities in Europe and move beyond failing approaches towards a transformative policy agenda centred on the idea of a New Social Europe.” Nando Sigona, University of Birmingham

Andrew Ryder FRSA is Director of the Institute for Political and International Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary.

Marius Taba is Visiting Lecturer and Fellow at Corvinus University of Budapest and former Grants and Research Manager at the Roma Education Fund.

Nidhi Trehan is Affiliated Senior Research Fellow of the CEU's Romani Studies Programme and Fellow of the Institute of Social Sciences (ISS) in New Delhi. She was formerly Visiting Scholar at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin.

Introduction: Romani Communities and Transformative Change: A New Social Europe ~ Andrew Ryder, Marius Taba and Nidhi Trehan

Mechanisms of Empowerment for the Roma in a New Social Europe ~ Roland Ferkovics, Andrew Ryder and Marek Szilvasi

Antigypsyism in a time of neoliberalism: challenging the radical right through Transformative Change ~ Marius Taba

Antigypsyism in Hungary: the Gyöngyöspata case vs ‘the People’s Sense of Justice ~ Bernard Rorke

‘The Roma Movement: A Love and Vocation’ (Jenő Setét interviewed by Katalin Rostas)

Roma Young People’s Activism and Transformative Change ~ Anna Daróczi, Lisa Smith, Sarah Cemlyn

Transatlantic Dialogues and the Solidarity of the Oppressed: Critical Race Activism in the US and Canada ~ Nidhi Trehan and Margarete Matache

'When they all enter, we all enter...’: Envisioning a New Social Europe from a Romani Feminist Perspective ~ Angela Kocze and Nidhi Trehan

Afterword: Solidarity and Equity in a New Social Europe ~ Romeo Franz