Minority Rights Protection in International Law: The Roma of Europe

by Helen O'Nions, Maykel Verkuyten

Overview

Despite forming Europe's largest non-territorial minority, the Roma continue to experience routine discrimination and marginalization. This book examines the theoretical debate concerning the most appropriate way of protecting the Roma's fundamental human rights, which also illuminates ways in which the rights of other minority groups can be protected.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409490920
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	12/28/2012
Series:	Research in Migration and Ethnic Relations Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

Helen O'Nions is Senior Lecturer in law at the University of Lincoln, UK. She has published widely on British Gypsies, immigration control and asylum policy.

Table of Contents

Contents: The treatment of Roma in Europe: a 'litmus test for civil society'; The protection of groups in international human rights discourse; The protection of minorities through individual rights; Citizenship in the Czech republic; The education of Roma and traveller children: the development of an intercultural pedagogy; The protection of minorities in international human rights law; Extending collective rights : the Roma nation: self-determination and minority autonomy; Conclusion: a complimentary approach to human rights for minorities; Bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

'A stimulating contribution to an under-researched area. The strength of this book lies in the impressively wide range of sources which are used to inform the text. Its examination of the education of traveller children in particular brings vividly alive the difficulties faced by the Roma in Europe today.' Fiona Cownie, Keele University, UK 'Does minority rights law have anything to offer the Roma, whose plight Dr O’Nions so eloquently describes? Her response is a splendidly knowledgeable and sophisticated analysis of current debates on individual and collective rights and their application to international and domestic law. Through her advocacy of a complementary approach to human rights, she shows how law can make a difference.' Bill Bowring, Birkbeck, University of London, UK 'Helen O'Nions's monograph is perhaps the first comprehensive academic study that examines the contemporary Romani situation from a legal perspective ...The outcome is one of the most inspiring and well-informed works on the political situation of Roma that has appeared over the past decade, by far overtaking in its thoroughness, accuracy, and quality of analysis all other titles cited in its extended bibliography.' Romani Studies

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