In this landmark work, Dr. Margareta (Magda) Matache traces more than six centuries of anti‑Roma racism and its protectors and shifting manifestations in Europe and beyond.
The Permanence of Anti‑Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences names and theorizes anti‑Roma racism as a system of oppression, showing how it has been built, justified, and normalized across time. At the same time, the book challenges the distortions, minimizations, and absences around anti‑Roma racism in mainstream histories and scholarship and calls for a radical rethinking of Europe’s futures.
In this international volume, Jacqueline Bhabha, Margareta (Magda) Matache, and Caroline Elkins gather an interdisciplinary group of historians, anthropologists, lawyers, sociologists, and political scientists to confront the unfinished business of state-sponsored violence.
Time for Reparations argues that histories of slavery, colonization, forced sterilization, and mass atrocities continue to generate harms that justice demands we address. Ranging from African American enslavement in the United States and Roma enslavement in Romania to colonial brutality in Guatemala, Algeria, Indonesia, Jamaica, and Guadeloupe, the book proposes concrete reparative strategies and their transformative potential for survivor and descendant communities.
Realizing Roma Rights centers anti‑Roma racism and a growing Roma‑led movement working to build a more inclusive and just Europe.
Bringing together leading and early-career Romani scholars, human rights experts, and policy advocates, the volume documents manifestations of anti‑Roma racism, traces contemporary European and U.S. policymaking, and critically examines Roma‑related discourses and narratives. It probes the European Union’s dual role as both a catalyst for social change and a flawed guarantor of fundamental rights and justice, offering insights for scholars, students, and advocates engaged in struggles against racism and exclusion.
Early Development of Roma Children: Risk and Protective Factors offers a pioneering social‑ecological portrait of Roma children’s early years, tracing how family, community, preschool environments, and broader social and political structures shape their rights, opportunities, and futures.
Grounded in human rights and ecosocial theories , the book links historical oppression, contemporary inequities, and Romanian public policies to the realities of Roma children. Through an analysis of risk and protective factors across multiple contexts, it proposes pathways for expanding educational opportunity and advances a theory of change for more just futures.