APPELLATIONS OF ROMA, SINTI, GYPSIES AND TRAVELLERS IN THE OPINIONS OF THE FRAMEWORK CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATIONAL MINORITIES

• Authors: Hrustič Tomáš
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Opinions of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM) cover the situation of all national minorities in all state parties of the Council of Europe who signed and ratified the FCNM since its adoption in 1998. The situation of Roma, Sinti and Travellers is an important issue in the most of these documents. This paper will analyse how the FCNM opinions use the terms Roma, Sinti, Travellers, Gypsies and other appellations in respect of groups and people who are targeted in these texts. Moreover, the FCNM is an instrument which is in existence for 20 years and during that time the opinions were drafted by various compositions of experts in the Advisory Committee and were reflecting various trends and socio-political situations in Europe and respective State parties of the FCNM. This paper will analyse the texts of the past opinions. The author takes advantage of his personal experience as a member of the Advisory Committee for FCNM between 2014 and 2018 and reflects on the most recent developments in approaches towards labelling the Roma in the opinions of the Advisory Committee for FCNM.

Keywords

EN

FRAMEWORK CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATIONAL MINORITIES; FCNM; ROMA; SINTI; TRAVELLERS; GYPSIES; IDENTIFICATION

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 66
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 452 – 466

Contributors

author

Hrustič Tomáš

• Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.26363/SN.2018.4.05