CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Cabrilovski, Miljana |
|---|---|
| Title | The Forced Sterilization as a Weapon of Bio-Power: Human Rights Abuses of Romani Women in Czechoslovakia and its Successor Countries |
| Summary | My thesis uses a historical, theoretical, and legal perspective to examine the human rights abuses of the forced sterilization of Romani women in former Czechoslovakia and its successor countries: The Czech Republic and Slovakia. It consists of three parts: case study, theoretical framework and legal analysis. Analyses on the three levels supplement each other: situation level - case study, theoretical level - roots of those practices, and legal level - practical level which should protect and guarantee rights. I argue that Czechoslovakian authorities made segregated policies and legislation in order to eradicate the Roma population; therefore Romani women faced injustices and the violation of numerous rights. Although these policies were abolished in 1992, in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the reality of Romani women remained the same and ‘Gypsy origin’ was the indicator for the sterilization. Practices of the forced sterilization are examined through the lens of Critical Race Theory and Michel Foucault’s theory of bio-power. I examine the social construct of Roma and the racial motives behind those brutal practices. Furthermore, how States used bio-power to ‘shape population’ and how the bodies of Romani women were object for that. I presented recognition of these abuses in the legal discourse and how that was insufficient solution of human rights abuses and racial injustices. |
| Supervisor | Turan Pelin |
| Department | Romani Studies Ps |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/cabrilovski_miljana.pdf |
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