TY - BOOK ID - 32556990 TI - The East European gypsies : regime change, marginality, and ethnopolitics PY - 2002 SN - 9780521009102 9780521804103 0521009103 0521804108 9780511817373 0511817371 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Romanies KW - Tsiganes KW - History KW - Histoire KW - -#SBIB:340H85 KW - #SBIB:327.6H02 KW - Bohemians (Romanies) KW - Gipsies KW - Gitanos KW - Gypsies KW - Kalderash KW - Manush KW - Roma (People) KW - Romani KW - Sinti KW - Internationaal recht: bijzondere vraagstukken: minderheden KW - Internationale problemen: bijzondere vraagstukken KW - #SBIB:328H27 KW - #SBIB:340H85 KW - Nomads KW - Instellingen en beleid: Midden- en Centraal Europa: algemeen KW - History. KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32556990 AB - This 2001 book is an attempt by a social scientist to explain the predicament of Gypsies (or Roma), Eastern Europe's largest ethnic minority, and their relationship to the region's states and societies. Barany examines the Gypsies' socioeconomic and political marginality and policies toward them through seven centuries and in seven East European states. He illuminates the reasons why the Roma have consistently occupied the bottom of social, economic, and political hierarchies regardless of historical period or geographic location. Barany argues that the current nostalgia of many Gypsies for the socialist period is easy to understand, given the disastrous effect of the post-communist socioeconomic transformation on the Roma's conditions over the last decade. He explains the impact of Gypsy political mobilization, and the activities of international organizations and NGOs, on government policies. This pioneering multidisciplinary work will engage political scientists, sociologists and historians, as well as students of ethnic and racial studies. ER -