CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Kamble, Swati Mukund |
|---|---|
| Title | Towards Gender Inclusive Policy Interventions for Roma Women The Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-2015 in Hungary |
| Summary | Roma women’s disadvantaged social positioning makes them the most marginalized within the Roma community as well as in the majority society. Roma women are multiply vulnerable and oppressed as women from a disadvantaged minority community, and their combined gender and ethnic status clearly contributes to their economic marginalization too. These multiple disadvantages and discrimination arising from their social position keep Roma women deprived from their right to education, employment, health and housing. Roma women therefore ought to be a special focus of policy interventions. Drawing from these facts I decided to conduct a gender and intersectional analysis of the key ‘policy scripts’ operational in the field of Hungarian Roma policy at the national level and proposed by number of civil society initiatives. I have analyzed core documents related to the Decade of Roma Inclusion in Hungary to see how gender inclusive they are. I have employed gender analysis and intersectionality theory to analyze the Hungarian Decade Strategic Plan for the four Decade priority areas i.e. education, employment, health and housing as well as the intersection of these four areas with each other and the additional dimension of regional disparity. Through this analysis and with the help of semi-structured interviews with Roma women activists, academics, representatives of relevant governmental institutions and civil society actors I have shown that the Hungarian Decade National Action Plan lacks a gender perspective leading to implicit discrimination of Roma women. I have also discussed examples of gender aware Roma policy and Roma (women’s) activism to suggest policy lessons for the Decade National Action Plan. The study concludes by putting forward suggestions for effective gender inclusive policy in the Decade National Action Plan and the priority areas, based on the analysis of the existing ‘policy scripts’ and examples of activist Roma (women’s) policy. |
| Supervisor | Prof. Susan Zimmerman |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/kamble_swati.pdf |
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