Roma in the Yugoslav Successor States
Publisher: ECMI Volume: 28 pages, pdf Description: Roma were covered in SFRY (as “Gypsies” until 1971 and Roma thereafter) under general policy toward minorities. While at that time “Yugoslavia [was], arguably, the most progressive of states with regard to treatment of Gypsies”, authorities paid little attention to Roma until the early 1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s, positive attention to Roma increased, with the extension of cultural rights to Roma in the form of broadcast time and education in Romani particularly evident in largely Albanianinhabited areas such as Kosovo and Western Macedonia.