Une minorité sans histoire : le cas des Roms en Roumanie
The Romanian Revolution of 1989 began the process of democratization after more than four decades of communism. Numerous economic, political and social changes followed the fall of the totalitarian regime, especially as a result of the country's accession to the European Union. One of the issues that demonstrates the progress and the limits of Romania’s transition to democracy is the conflicting memories awakened by the historiographical revision. Pressure from European and international institutions has created political opportunities for minorities, including Hungarians, Jews, and the Roma; to find their place in national history, which until now had been ignored. Despite the new political opportunities and the advances of the Jewish and Hungarian communities, the Roma have remained largely absent from Romania’s national history. This analysis examines the factors that explain the gap between the representation of the Roma with that of the Jewish and the Hungarian communities through the lens of the political process model, which encompasses three well-established factors of the social movement theory: political opportunities, resource mobilization, and framing.
History Historiography Collective memory Nationalism Textbook Roma Minority Political opportunity Framing Social movement Romania