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Victimization and vilification of Romani children in media and human rights organizations discourses
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Abstract Through an analysis of European newspapers, human rights organization reportage, and United Nations documents and websites, this article examines how public discourse regarding education, human rights, poverty, child rearing, and child labour manufactures a dangerous, implausible childhood for Roman... view more
Through an analysis of European newspapers, human rights organization reportage, and United Nations documents and websites, this article examines how public discourse regarding education, human rights, poverty, child rearing, and child labour manufactures a dangerous, implausible childhood for Romani children. These discourses, perpetrated by human rights organizations and news media, leverage the languages of intervention, cultural difference, nationalism, and social justice to simultaneously victimize and vilify Romani children, rendering them incapable of experiencing humane childhoods. Employing critical discourse analysis and systemic functional grammar analysis, the proposed article seeks to disentangle the discourses of human rights for Roman children from the assimilationist arguments aimed at compulsory schooling and Eurocentric family and labour practices rooted in access to middle class dominant labor markets.... view less
Keywords
child; gipsy; human rights; organization; media; discourse; poverty; education; child labor; ethnic group; social justice; compulsory education; assimilation; discrimination
Classification
Social Problems
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Page/Pages
p. 48-63
Journal
Social Inclusion, 3 (2015) 5
Issue topic
Talking about Roma: implications for social inclusion
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution