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Civil society groups: Romania’s Roma Strategy

October 24, 2019
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The recently-released second Roma Civil Monitor (RCM) report on the implementation of Romania’s National Roma Integration Strategy (NRIS) has found that while both pro-Roma and Roma NGOs have been advocating for affirmative action to be taken by the Romanian state with respect to Roma jobseekers – along the lines of the disability quota introduced in 2006 – no such affirmative action measures have been implemented yet.

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Civil society groups: Hungary’s Roma Strategy yields employment gains, but not for long

October 17, 2019
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The recently-released second Roma Civil Monitor (RCM) report on the implementation of Hungary’s National Roma Integration Strategy (NRIS) has found that the situation for Roma there is deteriorating along with the general decline in public services, such as shortages of doctors and teachers.

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Countering Islamophobia in Europe

October 14, 2019
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A Palgrave edited volume has been published based on the research conducted in the 'Countering Islamophobia through the Development of Best Practice in the use of Counter-Narratives in EU Member States' project. Editors are Ian Law, Amina Easat-Daas, Arzu Merali and Salman Sayyid, all of them were part of the University of Leeds Team of the project.  The Hungarian chapter is written by CPS researcher Zsuzsanna Vidra.

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Bulgarian civil society groups: Improvements in Roma education, deterioration in access to housing and rise of antigypsyism

October 11, 2019
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The recently-released second Roma Civil Monitor (RCM) report on the implementation of Bulgaria’s National Roma Integration Strategy (NRIS) relates that the first RCM report in 2017 was given significant diplomatic and political attention. The process of researching the second report endeavored to develop the capacity of Roma organizations to monitor policy implementation and then to advocate for effective policy both locally and nationally based on the findings.

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New project: NGOization of school-to-work transition among Roma youth (NGOST)

October 10, 2019
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A new 24-month long comparative research project led by Abel Beremenyi, Marie S. Curie Individual Fellow at CPS, started in September 2019.

The project aims at critically examining policies and programmes that support school-to-work transition (STWT) reaching out to Roma youth. It focuses particularly on the ‘NGOization’ of STWT programmes, that is the delegation of state functions to private entities, as a technique of neoliberal governance of minorities. Research will be conducted in three EU countries: Hungary, Slovakia and Spain.

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