This report seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of Estonia's integration policy concerning the Roma, to assess the alignment of the policy with the EU Roma Strategic Framework, and identify areas for improvement. The findings are based on qualitative research, including interviews with Roma...

Although we recognise 'Roma' as an umbrella term, throughout this report, we refer to 'Travellers' and 'Roma' to clearly identify the distinct situations, identities, and experiences of the Traveller and Roma communities in Ireland. The 2022 Census records that there are 16,059 Roma living in...

The main strengths of the NRSF include its continuity as a dedicated national strategy for Roma inclusion, ensuring financial commitment and policy focus on key areas such as education, housing, and employment. Additionally, the increasing involvement of Roma organisations in advocacy and...

This report discusses the progress and challenges in implementing the Austrian Roma Strategy focusing on the equality, inclusion, and participation of Roma communities. Positive steps have been made, such as studies, anti-discrimination reports, and various activities focused on Roma inclusion....

The report examines the implementation of the National Roma Strategic Framework (NRSF) in the period 2022-2024, highlighting notable shortcomings in its execution. Although monitoring processes exhibit some strengths, there are areas that require improvement, such as implementation quality,...

This report presents civil society findings on the implementation of Lithuania's National Roma Strategic Framework (NRSF), namely the Roma Integration Plan 2022-2023 (NRSF 2022-2023) and the Roma Inclusion Action Plan 2024-2030 (NRSF (2024-2030). The report recognises limited systemic progress...

In practical terms, the implementation of the Bulgarian National Roma Strategic Framework (NRSF) has progressed in a limited manner. Changes in the NRCP were introduced, but they did not strengthen its limited mandate, responsibilities and human capacity. The regulatory power of the new strategy...

This report aims to contribute to the reflection and evaluation on the implementation of the National Strategy for the Integration of Roma Communities 2013-2023 (ENICC) with a focus on the national context of Roma communities and the presentation of proposals for action/recommendations...

The implementation of the French National Roma Strategic Framework (NRSF) has made some notable advancements, particularly in the formal recognition of antigypsyism as a specific form of racism and the integration of policies addressing both Gens du voyage and EU mobile Roma within a single...

This report examines the fundamental rights and living conditions of Roma and Travellers across 10 EU Member States and 3 accession countries. The survey evaluates progress towards the EU Roma strategic framework's 2030 objectives, covering areas such as discrimination, poverty, education,...

This report examines the fundamental rights and living conditions of Roma and Travellers across 10 EU Member States and 3 accession countries. The survey evaluates progress towards the EU Roma strategic framework's 2030 objectives, covering areas such as discrimination, poverty, education,...

The implementation of Croatia's 'National Roma Strategic Framework' (NRSF) has led to visible progress in promoting Roma culture, improving living conditions, and enhancing participation. Awareness-raising initiatives, cultural memorials, and media projects have strengthened the recognition of...

Sweden's National Roma Inclusion Strategy (NRIS), adopted in 2012 as a 20-year policy framework, reflects an important political recognition of the need to address the structural exclusion of Roma communities. The strategy's greatest strength lies in its long-term scope, its grounding in...

ShowUp4Health is about addressing the social and environmental health determinants that contribute to an increased risk of noncommunicable diseases in vulnerable groups, notably Roma communities and internally displaced persons.

With the 2020 report Pushed To The Wastelands, the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) presented evidence of how anti-Roma racism leads to unequal exposure to environmental harm and access to basic services. The authors produced an extensive map of cases documenting three distinct categories of...

The Roma, Europe's largest ethnic minority group, have endured a long history of marginalisation, systemic discrimination, and exclusion from essential services and opportunities. This exclusion is rooted in structural inequalities, manifested through antigypsyism: a specific form of racism...

Health and mental well-being are essential dimensions of social inclusion in labour market and education. Despite the Roma marginalized communities in Slovakia encounter adverse health conditions that negatively affect their work integration and educational prospects, a little attention is paid...

This paper tests for discriminatory treatment of the Roma minority by public officials in the Czech Republic at the stage of initial contact preceding a potential application for unemployment benefit. Our correspondence experiment facilitates testing for the presence of each of two intertwined...

This paper tests for discriminatory treatment of the Roma minority by public officials in the Czech Republic at the stage of initial contact preceding a potential application for unemployment benefit. Our correspondence experiment facilitates testing for the presence of each of two intertwined...

In 2013, the Hungarian government cut the school leaving age from 18 to 16. We study the impact of this unique reform on the country's sizeable Roma minority using census data on the universe of 17-year-olds in 2011 and a 10 percent random sample in 2016. School attendance fell by more than 20...

"This book examines the creation of extreme poverty in East Europe, focusing on Romanian Roma, through a comparative historical perspective on its roots and the socio-economic and political mechanisms that have shaped it in labor, housing, and migration. This interdisciplinary book explores the...

This paper tests for discriminatory treatment of the Roma minority by public officials in the Czech Republic. Our focus is on public servants at local job centers whose job is to advise unemployed individuals and process applications for unemployment benefit. Our experimental design facilitates...

The aim of the analysis was to document the prevalence of mixed-ethnic partnerships and the ethnic reproduction rate among the Roma population living in Hungary in 1990 and 2011, based on data from national censuses. The ethnic reproduction rate should be used as an input variable for population...

This paper utilizes two measures of subjective well-being to test a hypothesis that a marginal increase in subjective well-being associated with a marginal increase in income is larger for poorer than for richer populations. This hypothesis is examined in the setting of Slovak Roma, who are poor...

We analyse Roma fertility in four neighbouring countries in Central and Eastern Europe with a large Roma minority: in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Serbia. The sources of data are the respective national population censuses from 2011. Fertility is measured at the birth cohort level as the...

This paper provides experimental evidence showing that members of a majority group systematically shift punishment on innocent members of an ethnic minority. We develop a new incentivized task, the Punishing the Scapegoat Game, to measure how injustice affecting a member of one's own group...

Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage and support their progeny's education. The evidence that Roma parents behave differently is unsettling. In this paper we test empirically an explanation for that behavior. The...

Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage and support their progeny's education. The evidence that Roma parents behave differently is unsettling. In this paper we test empirically an explanation for that behavior. The...

Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage and support their progeny’s education. The evidence that Roma parents behave differently is unsettling. In this paper we test empirically an explanation for that behavior....

Our paper describes the specific fertility behaviour of the Roma population from four of the five countries of Central and Eastern Europe with a large Roma minority: Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia. We present the fertility behaviour of the Roma and the ethnic-majority population according...

Poverty as a complex and multidimensional problem has not only a socio-structural dimension but also a socio-spatial one. Social exclusion and poverty might also affect localities and regions not only because of the concentration of socially excluded individuals within the population, but also...

We introduce a new measure of stereotypes based on the principle of a multiple-price list: the elicitation of willingness to have an ethnic minority member in a team. We apply it on an example of the Roma in the Czech Republic and test on a sample of 100 students from the majority population. We...

Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage and support their progeny's education. The evidence that Roma parents behave differently is unsettling. In this paper we test empirically an explanation for that behavior. The...