Download or read book Urbanism and Roma Settlements in Serbia written by Vladimir Macura and published by The European Roma Rights Centre. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of the study is the impact of the applied urban planning policies against the development of Roma settlements in three cities in Serbia – Belgrade, Novi Sad and Niš. Particular attention has been paid to the extent to which urban planning policies had contributed to the exclusion of Roma settlements from residential parts of the cities and their displacement to the terrains that had not been planned for housing or which are unfavourable or dangerous for life. The report also deals with the urban policies that had a different approach towards the Roma and adjacent non-Roma settlements, and how they influenced the installation of new infrastructure, roads, etc. in these areas; how they affected the changes in various regulations and parameters which prevented development and prosperity of the settlements and improvement of the living conditions.
Download or read book ROMA SETTLEMENTS IN SERBIA written by Vladimir Macura and published by Society for the Improvement of Local Roma Communities. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report represents architectural and urbanistic aspects of Roma settlements in Serbia (without Kosovo), emphasising the housing issues. The report is a part of EU-ROMA project (www.eu-roma.net ) launching a European open confrontation on Roma housing issue and public space.
Download or read book Roma Housing and Settlements in South Eastern Europe written by Vladimir Macura and published by OSCE/ODIHR. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of two architects/town-planners, the book is an in-depth study of the issue of Roma settlements and housing in urban areas. It aims to promote positive experiences and practices in Serbia and to suggest ways of building upon such examples both in Serbia and in other areas of South-Eastern Europe.
Download or read book Inclusion of Roma population through housing and settlements improvement written by Vladimir Macura and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2006-07-07 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper presents Roma housing and settlement situation in Serbia today - which is very poor - and offers some recommendations for bettering living conditions. The paper consists of four parts. The first one presents the main facts about the Roma issue in Serbia. The second one provides an assessment of the Roma housing and settlement situation. A set of clear and achievable recommendations on desirable policies and strategies to address the problems and needs identified by the assessment is given in the third part. The fourth part offers a model cost estimation of upgrading Roma settlements. Roma housing and settlement problems have been visible for a long period in Serbia, but no one has tried to do anything to upgrade their living conditions. The State prepared and adopted Law on the protection of rights and freedoms of national minorities (2001) and a set of strategies and action plans for the general improvement of the Roma situation (2002 - 2005). However, positive outputs do not exist on the local level jet. A crucial problem is the translation of National-level commitments into local action. The main section of this paper is Recommendations for local level - municipalities and cities. Recommendations, in particular, address some of the sore points of the current attitude toward Roma settlements and housing. The overall goal is stressed at the beginning of the section. It is to upgrade Roma settlements as equal parts to the others in cities. The main measure is settlement consolidation. Demolition and relocation of settlements would be only a last resort. Implementation of this approach should be based on a set of principles that can be found in several international documents and action plans for Roma inclusion. What follows is a combination of general principles created for informal settlement and from a book under preparation on Roma housing and settlements. The answer to the question of how much would cost the proposed policy is given in the fourth paper section. Model cost estimation for consolidating a Roma unserviced settlement is a base for the answer. A rough cost estimate regarding the improvement of 250 Roma settlements in Serbia is also made. The conclusion is that finances for upgrading Roma settlements should come from national, local and Roma sources.
Download or read book LEGALLY INVISIBLE written by Oliver Weber and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2016-11-06 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Photo-Documentation about the Roma refugees in Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia.
Download or read book Social Inclusion Improvement of Housing in Roma Settlements in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina Republic of Serbia written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spatial Conflicts and Divisions in Post socialist Cities written by Valentin Mihaylov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents cross-national insights into spatial fragmentation in post-socialist cities in Europe. Trying to rethink the heritage of the last 30 years of transformation and grasp current processes taking urban units of various categories as examples, the book exemplifies typical or unique causes of political, social and ethnic disintegration of cities in Central and Eastern Europe. Presenting spatial studies into different cases of conflict in a cross-national context, the authors apply concepts of contested and divided cities, urban geopolitics, cultural atavism, contested heritage, etc. The book is divided into four parts. The first part raises the issue of genesis, development and contemporary discrepancies of cities divided by political and state borders. The second part includes chapters which deal with the impact of ongoing geopolitical divisions, wars, and ideologies on the social and political tensions as well as their polarising effect on urban territory. The third part comprises reflections on controversial relations of ethnic and national culture with urban space. The fourth part deals with socio-economic transformation of post-socialist cities which went through transition of old patterns of spatial planning and attempts to establish more rational and justice spatial order.
Download or read book Romaphobia written by Dr Aidan McGarry and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on first-hand accounts from Roma communities, Romaphobia is an examination of the discrimination faced by one of the most persecuted groups in Europe. Well-researched and informative, it shows that this discrimination has its roots in the early history of the European nation-state, and the ways in which the landless Roma have been excluded from national communities founded upon a notion of belonging to a particular territory. Romaphobia allows us to unpick this relationship between identity and belonging, and shows the way towards the inclusion of Roma in society, providing vital insights for other marginalized communities.
Download or read book The Roma in Romanian History written by Viorel Achim and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest challenges during the enlargement process of the European Union towards the east is how the issue of the Roma or Gypsies is tackled. This ethnic minority group represents a much higher share by numbers, too, in some regions going above 20% of the population. This enormous social and political problem cannot be solved without proper historical studies like this book, the most comprehensive history of Gypsies in Romania. It is based on academic research, synthesizing the entire historical Romanian and foreign literature concerning this topic, and using lot of information from the archives. The main focus is laid on the events of the greatest consequence. Special attention is devoted to aspects linked to the long history of the Gypsies, such as slavery, the process of integration and assimilation into the majority population, as well as the marginalization of Gypsies, which has historic roots. The process of emancipation of Gypsies in the mid-19th century receives due treatment. The deportation of Gypsies to Transnistria during the Antonescu regime, between 1942-1944, is reconstructed in a special chapter. The closing chapters elaborate on the policy toward Gypsies in the decades after the Second World War that explain for the latest developments and for the situation of this population in today's Romania.
Download or read book Ethnic Groups in Serbia written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 132. Chapters: Romani people, Albanians, Bulgarians, Ukrainians, Serbs, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Hungarian people, Banat Bulgarians, Bosniaks, Romanians, Slovaks, Vlachs of Serbia, Rusyns, Danube Swabians, Romanians of Serbia, Hungarians in Vojvodina, Gorani people, Bunjevci, Yugoslavs, Ethnic groups in Vojvodina, Banat Swabians, okci, Greeks in Serbia, Ashkali and Egyptians, List of settlements in Serbia inhabited by Vlachs, Torlaks, Muslims by nationality, Roma in Serbia, Pannonian Rusyns, Bosniaks of Serbia, Bulgarians in Serbia, Szekelys of Bukovina, Macedonians in Serbia, Roma in Kosovo, Slovaks in Vojvodina, Croats of Serbia, Romani people of Vojvodina, Albanians in Central Serbia, Armenians in Serbia, Chinese people in Serbia, Montenegrins of Serbia, Germans of Serbia, Turks in Serbia, Albanians in Serbia.
Download or read book Svinia in Black and White written by David Z. Scheffel and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roma—or Gypsies as some people still call them—constitute Europe's largest, poorest, and most enigmatic minority. In spite of their centuries-long coexistence with mainstream Europeans, our picture of this people remains rooted in stereotypes and myths that have little in common with contemporary social reality. Full-fledged citizens of the European Union, and ostensibly protected by the world's most progressive human rights legislation, many Roma live under conditions that challenge our notions of Europe, modernity, and pluralism. This book is about a Romani settlement in eastern Slovakia. It is a community that has grown to become one of the largest and most problematic townships of rural Roma in the entire district. The dark-skinned squatters on the margins of Svinia are segregated from the surrounding society by means of physical and social barriers entrenched in local ideology and enforced by rules and conventions reminiscent of apartheid. David Scheffel offers a detailed ethnographic account of the social, cultural, and historical circumstances that have encouraged and supported inter-ethnic inequality in the region. In the process, he demonstrates the complexity of what is often referred to as Europe's "Gypsy problem" with passion and sensitivity.
Download or read book Everyday Life of Roma Children From Block 71 written by Ivana Todorovic and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are 600 squatter settlements in Serbia, the inhabitants of which are mostly of Roma origin. Of these, 105 are in Belgrade with seventeen more in New Belgrade. Here, Ivana Todorovic documents the life of the Stankovic family who migrated from Southern Serbia in search of better opportunities.
Download or read book Interculturalism and Discrimination in Romania written by François Ruegg and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents research on intercultural relations in South-Eastern Europe, including the way they are imagined and managed in different social and historical contexts. After an introductory critique of the concepts of interculturalism and citizenship, the situation in Romania is investigated. The second part deals with a series of in-depth comparative studies, namely on the Roma minorities in Romania and Bulgaria. But it also considers the case of the Pomaks in Bulgaria, of Russians living in parallel societies in the Baltic States and the recent evolution of interculturalism in the region.
Download or read book Roma in an Expanding Europe written by Dena Ringold and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the enlargement of the European Union in May 2004, Roma (or gypsies) are now the largest minority group in Europe. They are also one of the poorest and most vulnerable groups, living mainly in Central and Eastern Europe, suffering poverty levels as high as ten times that found within majority populations. The lack of information about the living conditions and needs of Roma people compound these stark gaps in human development outcomes. This publication, prepared for a conference held in Budapest, Hungary in June 2003, brings together original sociological research, evaluations of programme initiatives, and the first comparative cross-country household survey on ethnicity and poverty. It finds that Roma poverty is multi-faceted and can only be addressed by a inclusive policy approach which respects their diversity.
Download or read book Measuring Racial Discrimination written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-07-24 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many racial and ethnic groups in the United States, including blacks, Hispanics, Asians, American Indians, and others, have historically faced severe discriminationâ€"pervasive and open denial of civil, social, political, educational, and economic opportunities. Today, large differences among racial and ethnic groups continue to exist in employment, income and wealth, housing, education, criminal justice, health, and other areas. While many factors may contribute to such differences, their size and extent suggest that various forms of discriminatory treatment persist in U.S. society and serve to undercut the achievement of equal opportunity. Measuring Racial Discrimination considers the definition of race and racial discrimination, reviews the existing techniques used to measure racial discrimination, and identifies new tools and areas for future research. The book conducts a thorough evaluation of current methodologies for a wide range of circumstances in which racial discrimination may occur, and makes recommendations on how to better assess the presence and effects of discrimination.
Download or read book Abuses of Roma rights in Serbia written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rights Denied written by Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (Organization : U.S.) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1996 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE 1993 MINORITIES LAW
