CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Skenderi, Suad |
|---|---|
| Title | EUROPEAN REPRESENTATION OF ROMA INTERESTS |
| Summary | Representation of interests is one of the essential democratic needs of people to voice out their values, preferences, and interests. Minority representation is promoted due to pre-political inequalities that affect democracy. Roma are the most peculiar case of minority in Europe, they reside in almost all of the European countries and they have no territorial claim, being often perceived as a stateless nation. In order to represent their priorities and interests, Roma use international non-governmental organizations as a mechanism to define, aggregate and represent their interests in Europe. This thesis will examine organizations that focus on the representation of Roma interests at the European level. The research question that this thesis answers is how international organizations can advance Roma interests at the European level. This thesis will track difficulties of Roma in attempts to organize, represent and articulate their interests. For the analysis, I focus on two specific organizations: the International Romani Union and Special Representative of the Secretary General for Roma Issues of the Council of Europe. I examine the factors that I consider crucial for of representativeness: the type of representation, accountability, recognition status and financial sources. I conduct my analysis relying on qualitative methods and secondary data collection, combined with content analysis of available literature on the subject. The conclusions identify my findings on different patterns and forms of representativeness in the European arena of Roma interest representation. |
| Supervisor | Dimitrijevic, Nenad; Sata, Robert |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/skenderi_suad.pdf |
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