March 24, 2015: Conceptualizing Prejudice and Discrimination: Roma in the Comparative

The workshop aims to analyze prejudice towards Roma in connection with prejudice towards indigenous, ethnic, religious, and linguistic minorities in the European and Canadian context. In particular, we are interested in the similarities and differences between these sets of prejudice and their consequences in the lives of the minorities. Public opinion, public policy and academic research have tended to conceptualize questions pertaining to the Roma community disjointly from the wider and more general questions that concern minorities. In public and political debates, there has been a tendency to focus on Roma as a group distinct from other minority groups. This workshop seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the ‘Roma question’ and to bridge the two areas that have thus far been surprisingly isolated from each other. The workshop aims at bringing together papers looking at the topic from different angles, from the viewpoint of different theories and different methodologies.

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