http://www.netvouz.com/ipfwgweb/folder/4497348518062043163/xAnnotated+papers-ALL+Annotated+papers-Roma+Exclusion?feed=rss ipfwgweb's bookmarks in folder Annotated papers-Roma Exclusion on Netvouz http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0880335742/amzna9-1-20/ref=nosim?dev-t=D26XECQVNV6NDQ%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2 Iván Szelényi and János Ladányi's book(Columbia Univ. Press,2006) draws on historical and demographic data,and examines how the social conditions of the Roma has changed over time and across countries.The aim is to turn an ideological controversy into an analytic project: under what socioeconomic conditions is a social group's situation sufficiently different from earlier times? Is its exclusion from society sufficiently rigid that underclass is the concept that best describes its condition? xAnnotated papers-ALL > Annotated papers-Roma Exclusion ipfwgweb Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:11:37 GMT http://www.right-to-education.org/content/lessons/roul_ww.pdf This report argues that the European Union pressurizes pre-accession countries to comply with minority rights standards that its current members do not recognise. Despite a growing consensus on the rights of minorities in Europe, the precise nature of EU policy on minority rights in education is unclear, as this overview of the subject shows. The report provides a conceptual framework for minority rights in and through education and includes an analytical review of legal and practical developments in four countries involved in negotiations with the European Union. The result highlights huge divergence in practice in minority education, and a lack of clarity in just what the EU promotes. xAnnotated papers-ALL > Annotated papers-Roma Exclusion ipfwgweb Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:25:11 GMT http://www.econ.core.hu/doc/bwp/bwp/bwp0508.pdf The Roma – Non-Roma educational gap, which was substantial but slowly closing in the communist years, widened after the collapse of the communist system in Hungary. Using data from the mid-1990’s and a comparable national sample, the authors estimated multinomial probability models for rates of dropping out after primary school (8th grade), continuing in vocational training school, or continuing in a secondary school with a maturity examination (necessary for college entrance). xAnnotated papers-ALL > Annotated papers-Roma Exclusion ipfwgweb Sun, 03 Sep 2006 20:44:42 GMT http://www.soros.org/initiatives/roma/articles_publications/publications/inclusion_20060605/Roma-Inclusion-WEB.pdf The OSI has worked for 12 years ‘to help build a better future for Europe`s Roma, mostly by working with Roma to help them mobilize their communities to help themselves’. This report describes some of the lessons OSI, its staff and partners have learnt. The lessons concern funding strategies, financing techniques, how to overcome bias, the idea of mainstreaming and targeted actions, the importance of making a strong focus on the young, and generally what counts as effective and ineffective strategies. Specific recommendations concern women`s issues, education, health, civil society, employment, housing and the elimination of discrimination through raising public’s awareness xAnnotated papers-ALL > Annotated papers-Roma Exclusion ipfwgweb Sun, 03 Sep 2006 18:54:15 GMT http://usinfo.state.gov/eur/Archive/2004/Sep/28-582582.html The Roma in Russia is a particularly vulnerable minority whose plight is often overlooked. The article focus on the human rights violations that Roma population experienced in Russia. xAnnotated papers-ALL > Annotated papers-Roma Exclusion ipfwgweb Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:12:59 GMT http://usinfo.state.gov/eur/Archive/2006/Jun/19-294407.html In overcoming the legacy of racism, discrimination and social exclusion facing its large Roma population, Europe could learn from the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s. The article points out strategies to be employed in order to eliminate the discrimination in education and in housing for Roma population. xAnnotated papers-ALL > Annotated papers-Roma Exclusion ipfwgweb Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:17:23 GMT