From Roma to Muslim and Back: Anti-Roma and Anti-Muslim Prejudice in the Czech Republic

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

From Roma to Muslim and Back: Anti-Roma and Anti-Muslim Prejudice in the Czech Republic

Original language description

If anti-Roma prejudice was a hallmark of the 1990s in Central Europe,anti-Muslim prejudice marked the second half of the 2010s. The changeof political and social order in 1989 led to the emergence of politicalradicalism and open racism. Many Roma became targets of neo-Naziviolence and far right rhetoric. Gradually, the courts, the media and thestate have recognized anti-Roma discrimination as a problem and haveslowly taken measures to implement anti-racist laws and policies towardsa social re-integration of the Roma. Yet in early 2010s, anti-Roma protestserupted again in dozens of peripheral cities in the Czech Republic. Therewas a feeling that racism was back. It ran against the assumption that anti-Roma prejudice and discrimination was being tackled in the consolidateddemocratic order. Then, in 2015, along with its Central Europeanneighbors, the Czech Republic was gripped by widespread expressionsof anti-Muslim prejudice. The so-called refugee crisis was framed not as ahumanitarian challenge but as a threat by Islam to the European traditionand caused large anti-Islam mobilizations. For a while, it seemed that asort of an extremist rage turned from the Roma against another minority,and that the Muslim refugee replaced the Roma as a target of social frustration and political extremism, driven by the media (Romea 2016).But several years later, openly discriminatory discourse and sometimesviolent acts gradually ceased to target perceived Muslims and begantargeting LBGTQ persons and as well as the Roma again (Hesová 2022).It confirmed that anti-Roma prejudice remains a constant in the Czechpublic and that public enmity takes fluid forms.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

ROMA IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE Navigating Muslim Identities, Challenges and Activism

ISBN

978-86-82324-88-1

Number of pages of the result

18

Pages from-to

133-150

Number of pages of the book

190

Publisher name

Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Institut e for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade

Place of publication

Belgrade

UT code for WoS chapter

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