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Roma civil society: Austria should expand its integration targeting beyond employment

February 27, 2020

The second Roma Civil Monitor (RCM) report for Austria has found that the National Roma Integration Strategy (NRIS) process there brought about a tenfold increase in the number of Roma-targeted ESF programmes implemented between 2015 and 2019, specifically those making it possible for civil society to empower Roma in accessing the labour market.

MigSol Project: When a policy brief seems futile

CPS Research Fellow Celine Cantat's Policy Reflections paper concludes the project 'Migration Solidarity and Acts of Citizenship Along the Balkan Route' by questioning the gap between scientific knowledge and policymaking in the area of migration. Please find the Policy Reflections here.

Roma Civil Monitor project: Luxembourg’s integration of Roma remains a mystery

February 24, 2020

The second Roma Civil Monitor (RCM) report on Luxembourg has found that there is a need for data and information about Roma, Sinti and Travellers from Luxembourg in general, because the only existing approximate estimate of their numbers is already a decade old. There are no data on Roma access to the labour market, housing, health care and education. Luxembourg is home to a total of 170 nationalities and the Roma community is very small, estimated at 300 persons by the Council of Europe in 2012.

Roma civil society: Portugal must address Roma segregation in all areas of life

February 20, 2020

The second Roma Civil Monitor (RCM) report for Portugal has found that over the last five years, some policy measures have been defined that have allowed some achievements in Roma integration, especially in the areas of Roma civil society initiatives and employment. Roma are said to experience serious discrimination leading to difficulties in attaining education and in their professional and social insertion.

CEU CPS’s Krizsán receives inaugural Emma Goldman Award

February 19, 2020

Andrea Krizsan, Research Fellow at the Center for Policy Studies and adjunct faculty at the School of Public Policy, receives inaugural Emma Goldman award for her extraordinary expertise on, and engagement with, scholarship in the field of feminist and inequality issues. The Awards were awarded on February 13th at the Vienna Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) by Mieke Verloo, Chair of the FLAX Foundation.