To have a voice means not just the animal capacity to utter sounds but the ability to participate fully in the conversations that shape your society, your relations to others, and your own life. There are three key things that matter in having a voice: audibility, credibility, and consequence.
A book by Margareta Matache, PhD Director of the FXB Center Roma Program for Health and Human Rights
📣 Just published: The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism:(Un)uttered Sentences by FXB Roma Program Director @magdamatache.bsky.social!
Pre-order on @routledgebooks.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/5v6hwuxh
Read a short excerpt on Foreign Policy in Focus: tinyurl.com/4nzfx59w
Moreover, such denial of #Roma people’s rights is similarly visible across Europe, where racialised exclusion increasingly takes the form of legislation, policy, or administrative order.
This is not merely a legal failure but a moral abandonment – a betrayal of the European Union’s foundational promise that citizenship and rights cannot depend on local or racialised boundaries.
The newly adopted #Hungary’s 2025 Act on the Protection of Local Identity straightforwardly normalises racial exclusion at the local level under the guise of safeguarding “heritage” and “community values,” and directly empowers local governments to determine who may belong within their borders.
Amid numerous global catastrophes, a quieter crisis at home is strikingly overlooked: a direct attack on equality and, effectively, the denial of #Roma people’s rights, their freedom of movement, and dignity as European citizens.
Codifying Belonging: The Legalization of Racialized Exclusion in Europe
by Angéla Kóczé
verfassungsblog.de/codifying-be...
Aladár Horváth, the President of the Roma Parliament Civil Organisation, discusses the many forms of implicit legal discrimination against the #Roma in #Hungary.
hungarianobserver.substack.com/p/gypsy-laws...
🙏 Thank you to all contributors—authors, reviewers, editors, and partner organizations—who made this issue possible.
#criticalromanistudies
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The Structure of Antigypsyism by Luna De Rosa
🤝 Supporting organizations
Romani Studies Program at Central European University
European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC)
Intercultural Institute of Timișoara
· Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka · Dezso Mate · Iulius Rostas · Diana Aburas · Sanni Matleena Lindroos · Rufat Demirov · André Raatzsch · Calin Rus · Ismael Cortés Gómez · Carmen Cañete Quesada
📚 Authors include
Rafael Buhigas Jiménez · Lesia Pahulich · Gaëtan Cognard · Nora Tyeklar · Martina Boykova Drobenova · Ognyan Isaev · Stefania Cotei · Camilla Salvatore · Adrian-Nicolae Furtună · Eddie Bruce-Jones · Dóra Bogárdi
📖 Editors
Dezso Mate · Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka · Iulius Rostas · Călin Rus
Deconstructing antigypsyism and affirming Romani contributions to European cultural heritage and academic narratives are essential steps toward a dignified collective memory.
This issue interrogates the mechanisms through which antigypsyism has shaped knowledge production and critiques how Romani people have been placed at the margins—and remain so today.
📰 Critical Romani Studies is proud to announce the publication of Volume 8, Number 1, a thematic issue dedicated to exploring racism and its intersections with Romani Studies.
✊🏽 Racism and Romani Studies
Critical Romani Studies – Volume 8, Number 1 (2025)
🔗 Read the open-access issue here:
👉 crs.ceu.edu
The Romani Studies Program at CEU, the European Romani Institute for Arts and Culture, and the Intercultural Institute of Timișoara will launch the thematic issue of the Critical Romani Studies journal, Racism and Romani Studies
Register at the link: www.facebook.com/events/86936...
Boldizsár Nagy M: I'll Be Poor Where I Want To
A short story by Boldizsár Nagy M, published in the anthology These Roma Are Queer and translated by Hanna Zelma Horányi.
hlo.hu/new-work/bol...
AAA CFP: Spectral speech: The voices of political pasts in contemporary discourse
See abstract and panel description below.
If you are interested in participating in this panel, please get in touch before Monday, 04/14/25.
World Roma Day isn’t about survival, writes Mensur Haliti. It's about Roma political power—disciplined, strategic and aligned.
We are not entering Europe’s future. We’re writing it.
#april8
I used to be so ready for later sunsets. I am no longer. I would rather welcome the comfort that darkness, anonymity bring.
Yesterday morning, the price of regular unleaded gas at the gas station where I usually fuel up was $3.03. By the time I got off work at 4:30pm, it had increased to $3.14.
This country has always hated poor people and left them to struggle and suffer, and now—under this administration—it deems them all the more odious and “wasteful.”
Imagine claiming that under the auspices of the DEI EO the removal of opportunities through the issuance of Pell Grants would free this country of “illegal and immoral discrimination programs” aka “shameful discrimination.”
If the DOE is eliminated—the federal agency that administers Pell Grants—the institution of higher ed where I work and teach will no longer be able to provide access to college degrees to the lower income students it serves, the majority of its student population
