Jan Ort

‘We weren’t nomadic G*psies but old settlers!’ 

Belonging and mobility of the Roma in eastern Slovakia

 

Discussant: Pavel Baloun

 

30 June 2021

Abstract:
Using a microhistorical approach, the article focuses on the implementation of the central policies of socialist Czechoslovakia aimed at regulating the movement of Roma, namely the legal efforts to settle nomadic people and subsequently the plan of controlled resettlement of Roma from eastern Slovakia to the Bohemian lands.

Jan Ort (Faculty of Arts, Charles University):

Pavel Baloun (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University)