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Shifting Responsibilities for EU Roma Citizens: The 2010 French affair on Roma evictions and expulsions continued. CEPS Paper in Liberty and Security in Europe No. 55, June 2013
No full textDespite the ultimatum delivered in October 2010 to the French government by Viviane Reding, Vice-President of the European Commission, to adapt its national immigration law ‘to the letter’ of the Citizens Directive 2004/38, the country has continued to evict and expel Romanian and Bulgarian nationals of Roma origin. This paper examines the state of affairs with respect to France’s policy on eviction and expulsion of Roma and assesses the way in which the controversy has developed and can be understood from the perspective of citizenship of the EU. On the basis of an examination of the subsequent responses by the European Commission and the EU member states involved, as well as of a recent bilateral agreement concluded between France and Romania on the reintegration of families of Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority who have exercised their freedom to move, the paper suggests that there has been a paradigm shift in the priorities driving EU policy responses and politics. This shift has led to an ethnicisation of citizenship of the Union, where ethnicity increasingly plays a decisive role in the allocation and attribution of responsibility to secure and safeguard the union freedoms
Narratives of social inclusion in the context of Roma school segregation
No full textDespite a series of judgements from the European Court of Human Rights and the enactment of the EU Racial Equality Directive, the educational segregation of Roma pupils persists in several European states. State action plans submitted pursuant to the European Framework for Roma Integration rarely provide clear targets and do not commit to inclusive schooling. Taking education as a principle indicator of social inclusion, this article identifies that structural inequality and entrenched discriminatory attitudes are the main obstacles to Roma inclusion. This can only be addressed through the diffusion of legal and social norms that mainstream equality. Focusing on the legal obligations, it is argued that the European Commission must be more decisive and effective in the enforcement of non-discrimination rules. A closer dialogue between the European Court of Human Rights and the EU institutions, grounded in a non-targeted social inclusion frame, could provide a platform for European consensus which may help to secure meaningful change
Giulio Rospigliosi, San Bonifatio. Studi ed edizione critica
No full textQuesta ricerca ha avuto come obiettivo la redazione dell’edizione critica del libretto di “San Bonifatio” (1638), uno dei melodrammi agiografici composti da Giulio Rospigliosi (1600-1669) e messi in scena presso la corte papale di Urbano VIII Barberini. Lo studio filologico del testo, condotto in via preliminare su una selezione tra i testimoni manoscritti superstiti – e in previsione di una monografia che invece accolga la collazione integrale di tutte le copie che trasmettono il libretto –, è stato accompagnato da una sua analisi critica, tesa a mettere in luce la caratteristica, riscontrabile nella drammaturgia di Rospigliosi, di essere “cassa di risonanza” di diverse opere, topoi e modelli letterari propri della cultura teatrale della Roma barocca. Si è quindi contestualizzato il testo con un’analisi secondo categorie più propriamente storiografiche, rintracciando gli elementi ideologici che possono essere letti come acme e veicolo del preciso programma politico del mecenatismo barberiniano.This research aimed at preparing a critical edition of the libretto of “San Bonifatio” (1638), one of the hagiographical operas written by Giulio Rospigliosi (1600-69) and staged at the papal court of Urban VIII Barberini. Preliminary based on a selection among the surviving manuscript witnesses—and in anticipation of a monograph which will include the integral collation of all the sources—the philological study of the text has been followed by a critical analysis. The libretto has been explored for how it was a ‘sounding board’ for other works, topoi and literary models that layered and settled on the theatrical culture of Baroque Rome. Subsequently, the text has been contextualised and analysed with historiographical categories, tracing in it the ideological elements which can be read as acme and vehicle for a specific political design of the Barberini patronage
Measurement of the D+/- production asymmetry in 7 TeV pp collisions
No full textThe asymmetry in the production cross-section \sigma of D+/- mesons, A_P = (\sigma(D+) - \sigma(D-))/(\sigma(D+) + \sigma(D-)), is measured in bins of pseudorapidity \eta and transverse momentum p_T within the acceptance of the LHCb detector. The result is obtained with a sample of D+ -> K_S pi+ decays corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb^-1, collected in pp collisions at a centre of mass energy of 7 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. When integrated over the kinematic range 2.0 K_S pi+ decay is negligible. No significant dependence on \eta or p_T is observed
Il martire romano tra devozione e rappresentazione: l’inedita relazione di una festa barocca (Roma 1583)
No full textIl contributo muove dalla scoperta di una relazione di una festa barocca in lingua latina stampata all’interno di un martirologio, pubblicato a Roma nel 1584 per i tipi di Francesco Zanetti. La fonte, finora trascurata dagli studi storico-artistici, è rappresentativa di uno dei congegni celebrativi più ricorrenti della cultura barocca, qual è la processione. Alla luce della relazione, il saggio ricostruisce il tragitto della processione tenutasi a Roma nel 1583 in occasione dell’ultima traslazione delle reliquie dei martiri Abbondio e Abbondanzio, dalla chiesa dei Santi Cosma e Damiano fino alla chiesa del Gesù. Considerando le particolarità della natura della fonte, l’intento è quello di riflettere sui meccanismi retorici propri della rappresentazione del martire romano nel quadro più generale della cultura controriformistica.This contribution is based on the discovery of a Latin report (‘relazione’) on a baroque feast, printed in Rome in 1584 by Francesco Zanetti, within a martyrologium. The source, disregarded up to now, is representative of one of the most recurrent celebratory devices of the Baroque culture: the procession. In the light of this report, the essay detects the path of the procession held in Rome in 1583, on the occasion of the last translation of martyrs Abbondius and Abbondantius’ relics, from the Church of Saints Cosma and Damiano to the Jesuit Church of the Gesù. Considering the peculiarities of the source’s nature, the aim is to consider the rhetorical mechanisms typical of the Roman martyr’s representation in the more general context of the Counter-Reformation culture
Some Europeans are more equal than others
No full textThe position of Roma migrants in the EU presents an anomaly which challenges the foundations of European Union law. As Union citizens, European migrants are entitled to freedom of movement and residence in Member States. Yet the rights intended to secure this position have been routinely and selectively denied to Roma migrants, leading to forced evictions and collective expulsions without regard t o European Law. As has been evidenced in the UK, Roma arrivals are viewed with particularly acute suspicion; a response which reflects their double stigmatization as both immigrant and Roma. At the same time, Roma migration from new Member States has expo sed a contradiction inherent in the citizenship project which strikes at the heart of the Union ’s human rights credentials. The degree of exclusion and inequality faced by Europe’s largest minority in all Member States is the most pressing internal human rights issue facing the EU. Yet the European institutions continue to lack a coherent response and defined strategy. The current European framework demanding National Action Plans is commendable in that it prevents individual states from abdicating responsibility for the situation of their Roma citizens. Nevertheless, the absence of clear targets, Roma engagement and European leadership, suggest that this strategy is doomed to failure offering little more than a distraction. In a Union predicated on, inter alia, the rule of law, respect for human rights and the protection of minorities, this detached position undermines the legitimacy of the entire citizenship project
Roma Employment in Hungary After the Post-Communist Transition
No full textWe analyze the magnitude and the causes of the low formal employment rate of the Roma in Hungary between 1993 and 2007. The employment rate of the Roma dropped dramatically around 1990. The ethnic employment gap has been 40 percentage points for both men and women and has stayed remarkably stable. Differences in education are the most important factor behind the gap, the number of children is important for female employment, and geographic differences play little role once education is controlled for. Conditional on employment, the gap in earnings is 0.3, and half of it is explained by educational differences.Roma minority, employment, education, Hungary
Europe’s perennial "outsiders": A processual approach to Roma stigmatization and ghettoization
No full textThis paper draws on the theoretical work of Norbert Elias and Loïc Wacquant in seeking to understand the stigmatized and marginalized position of the Roma population within Europe. The paper argues that the persistent persecution of Roma, reflected in social policy, cannot be understood without reference to long-term social processes, which shape the nature of the asymmetric power relations between Roma and non-Roma. Elias's theory of established-outsider relations is applied at the intra-state European level in arguing that Roma constitute a cross-border "outsider" group; with their intense stigmatization explained and perpetuated by a common set of collective fantasies which are maintained through complex group processes of disidentification, and which result in Roma being seen as of lesser human worth. Wacquant's theoretical concept of the "ghetto" is then drawn upon to show how the manifestations of stigmatization for the stigmatized are at once psychological, social and spatial. The paper suggests that the synthesis of the two theorists' relational, theoretical concepts allows for an approach that can expose the way in which power is exercised within and through group relations. Such an approach emphasizes the centrality of the interdependence between Roma and non-Roma, and the fluctuating power balance that characterises that relationship across time and space. The paper concludes that, while existing research focused on policy and outcomes is useful in understanding the negative contemporary experiences of Roma populations, they need to be understood in the context of wider social processes and historical continuities in seeking to elucidate how these processes shape policies and contribute to social and spatial marginalization
Linguistic and Philological Studies in Early Irish
No full textThis is a multi-authored volume which gathers essays devoted to Early Irish presented at the XIV International Congress of Celtic Studies, held in Maynooth, August 1-5 2011.
The topics covered, either from a synchronic or a diachronic perspective, range from phonetics and phonology (C. Anderson, Consonant quality in Old Irish revisited; D. Stifter, The history of the Old Irish preverb to-) to morphology (A. Griffith, The decline of the Old Irish deponent) and syntax (E. Roma, Old Irish Noun Phrases: data from the Milan Glosses and a hypothesis for the origin of the single article constraint; E. Sanfelici, Thoughts on Old and Middle Irish verbal nouns: the type DP doVN), but also touch upon semantics (P.-Y. Lambert, A further note on the Old Irish negative particle nícon; D. van Loon, The usage of the historical present in Old Irish narrative prose) and metalinguistic aspects related to contact with Latin (B. Bauer, Parallel Old Irish and Old Breton glosses on Priscian’s Institutiones Grammaticae; A. Harvey, Linguistic method in his literary madness? The word-coinings of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus)
Roma Women in Athenian Firms: Do They Face Wage Bias?
No full textIn the current study, we analyze the effect of having a Roma background on women's wages. By utilizing the Athens Area Study random sample (2007-08) drawn from 16 multiethnic municipalities in which Roma live, we estimate that 66.1% of the wage differential between Roma and non-Roma female workers cannot be explained by differences in observed characteristics. Prejudices against Roma women are discussed and appear to explain the wage gap found here. The occupational segregation of the Roma in low-paid jobs and employers' statistical motivations are also found to influence wages earned by Roma. This study concludes that there is a need for better implementations of existing laws, rules and regulations which would counter the discrimination of minority women in the labor market. In addition, a better means of assessing workers' skill may contribute to the reduction of wage discrimination, as well as, greater educational achievement would significantly boost the economic status of Roma women. In its use of a random Roma sample and multivariate analysis, this study is a methodological advancement over previous studies of Roma employment, and it could inspire new efforts to compare wages by Roma background.statistical theory, taste theory, Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition, labor discrimination, Roma, occupational segregation
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