CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Dragan, Andrei |
|---|---|
| Title | Reading Race in and out of Law - A Critical Race Theory Appraisal of Romanian Law's Impact on Roma |
| Summary | This thesis aims to analyze Romanian law through the lens of Critical Race Theory with a particular focus on how it affects Roma people. Writing from within a context where race is routinely avoided as irrelevant when discussing the past and present of local Roma, this thesis instead proposes that race is not only useful as a tool to highlight systemic racism which was never properly addressed, but is indeed quite salient even in a profoundly deracialized landscape. If anything, the need for such a critical and race-conscious approach of Romanian law is dire. On the other hand, the contextualist approach in this thesis dictates that Critical Race Theory arguments developed in the United States be adapted in order to explain systemic racism in Romania. As such, this thesis does not aim to blindly transpose external solutions, but to employ and adapt a race-conscious approach to law to Romanian law. Following an introduction into the main tenants of Critical Race Theory and its application in a European setting and a brief overview of the Romanian history of racializing Roma, several important areas of law will be analyzed in order to uncover the mechanisms through which race is “read out” of Romanian law. As its ultimate goal, this thesis purports to “read” race back “into” Romanian law, i.e. introduce a race-conscious approach to Romanian law and its impact on Roma. |
| Supervisor | Möschel, Mathias |
| Department | Legal Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/dragan_andrei.pdf |
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