CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Csiki, Eva |
|---|---|
| Title | SCHOOL DESEGREGATION POLICIES IN HUNGARY 2002-2010: MECHANISMS AFFECTING IMPLEMENTATION |
| Summary | The segregation of Roma children in education is very common in the member states, despite the fact that the EU and national governments treat addressing this issue as a priority area. The purpose of this paper is to identify the reasons behind the lack of success in implementing school desegregation policies in Hungary. The paper gives a brief introduction to desegregation and integration theory, and draws on examples from US literature in order to identify the mechanisms that can impede the implementation of desegregation policies at various levels, in a top-down and a bottom-up approach (e.g. resistance from implementers, resistance from parents, residential segregation). Then, based on this framework, it examines how these mechanisms apply in the context of Roma school desegregation in Hungary between 2002 and 2010. The paper concludes that all the mechanisms are underpinned by racial prejudice, which is interwoven at all levels of the implementation process, and there is a need for the policy design to also address this issue in order to be successful. |
| Supervisor | Krizsan, Andrea |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/csiki_eva.pdf |
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