Project MUSE®: Romani Studies - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Romani Studies.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 19 No. 1 (2009) - vol. 32 (2022)Latest Articles: Romani StudiesTWOProject MUSE®Romani Studies1757-22741528-0748Latest articles in Romani Studies. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Romani migration from the Czech Republic to Canada: Czech media communication
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/875576
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Romani migration from Eastern and Central to Western Europe, and the North American continent has been driving media attention for many years, in both source and destination countries. In general, through migration, groups of people interact with a wide range of institutions – become a part of international relations (McAuliffe et al. 2017; De Haas et al. 2020). Particularly asylum migrations attract public and media attention since they are a form of political participation, which requires political decisions (Zimmermann and Stutzer 2021). After the collapse of the Eastern Socialist bloc, an environment was created in which the inhabitants of the countries with the largest concentrations of Romani in the world
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/420/image/coversmallRomani migration from the Czech Republic to Canada: Czech media communication2023-01-06text/htmlen-USRomani migration from the Czech Republic to Canada: Czech media communication2023-01-062023TWOProject MUSE®1204032026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002023-01-06Editorial: Introducing the Discussions section
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/875577
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At the editorial board meeting of Romani Studies in 2021, our proposal to create a new section for the journal, entitled “Discussions” was unanimously accepted by the board. This new section runs alongside the regular articles and reviews featured in the journal. The purpose of the “Discussions” section is to devote some space in the journal to emerging and important topics and questions in the broad field of Romani Studies that have not yet been answered or resolved. The aim of the articles in this new section is to encourage and provoke further research and discussion on such topics. We should state that such a discussion, or intervention, does not imply a two-way dialogue, rather we see it as a longer-term
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/420/image/coversmallEditorial: Introducing the Discussions section2023-01-06text/htmlen-USEditorial: Introducing the Discussions section2023-01-062023TWOProject MUSE®37912026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002023-01-06Understanding and legitimizing Gypsy slavery in the traditional Romanian society – the life of St Gregory of Agrigento
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/875578
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Let your face be black as coal, let your tongue be incomprehensible to all Christians! … May your life be spent in eternal bondage from father to son. Whoever will have you shall have the right to sell you as cattle. … A miracle! Their faces turned black as coal, and they spoke an incomprehensible language. … Since then, they and their children have remained slaves and will remain slaves until the end of the world, because they have been cursed.The quote above, allegedly attributed to St Gregory of Agrigento, comes from the short story “Why Gypsies are not Romanians,” written by Costache Negruzzi1 in 1839 (at a time when Gypsy slavery had not yet been abolished).2 Starting from it, the present study aims to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/420/image/coversmallUnderstanding and legitimizing Gypsy slavery in the traditional Romanian society – the life of St Gregory of Agrigento2023-01-06text/htmlen-USUnderstanding and legitimizing Gypsy slavery in the traditional Romanian society – the life of St Gregory of Agrigento2023-01-062023TWOProject MUSE®823562026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002023-01-06Index to Volume 32
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/875579
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A right to home or an individual preference? The impact of the definition of home in International and European legislation on cases concerning Roma, Travellers and Gypsies 32: 1Belonging, mobility, and the socialist policies in Kapišová, Slovakia 32: 1Development of phonemic length alternation in adjectives and possessive pronouns in South Central Romani 32: 2Editorial: Introducing the Discussions section 32: 2Legal pluralism explained: History, theory, consequences. Brian Z. Tamanaha, book reviewed by Juan F. Gamella 32: 1Performance of Romani ethnicity in Klenovec: The pariahdom boundary and its markers 32: 2Peripheral inclusion? Gypsy Roma Traveller Police Association officers speak out 32: 1On the origin and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/420/image/coversmallIndex to Volume 322023-01-06text/htmlen-USIndex to Volume 322023-01-062023TWOProject MUSE®80672026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002023-01-06Reconstruction of Proto-Romani demonstratives
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/875580
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Romani has a complex and diverse system of deictic words, whose original (Proto-Romani) state seems, at first glance, to elude reconstruction. However, upon closer examination, deictics turn out to be one of the most regular, conservative, and uniform fragments of Romani morphology (we will only focus on demonstrative pronouns meaning “this,” “that,” etc.).R: rootAll demonstratives contain one of the two “primitive” deictic particles: -a- or -o-, which we will call the “root.” They are often opposed to each other in terms of “source of knowledge”: situational vs. discourse (Matras 1994: 43–67;I thank Michael Beníšek, Viktor Elšík, Kirill Kozhanov, Svetozar Lashin, Yanush Panchenko, Natalia Pimenova, Julieta Rotaru
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/420/image/coversmallReconstruction of Proto-Romani demonstratives2023-01-06text/htmlen-USReconstruction of Proto-Romani demonstratives2023-01-062023TWOProject MUSE®2472612026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002023-01-06Vowel length in Selice Romani: Phonology, morphophonology, and diachrony
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/875581
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Selice Romani, a variety of the Northwestern subgroup of the South Central dialect group of Romani (e.g. Elšík et al. 1999; Elšík and Beníšek 2020; Elšík 2020) spoken by the long-settled “Hungarian” Roms (endonym Roma or ungrike Roma, exonyms Rumungri, magyar cigányok) of the village of Selice in southwestern Slovakia (Elšík 2007, 2009), has developed phonemic vowel quantity due to long-term bilingualism of the speakers in Hungarian (Elšík 2007: 263). The present paper aims to provide a basic descriptive account of both the synchronic aspects and the development of phonemic vowel length in this local Romani variety. Selice Romani is, to a considerable extent, representative of the other South Central varieties of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/420/image/coversmallVowel length in Selice Romani: Phonology, morphophonology, and diachrony2023-01-06text/htmlen-USVowel length in Selice Romani: Phonology, morphophonology, and diachrony2023-01-062023TWOProject MUSE®1776152026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002023-01-06Development of phonemic length alternation in adjectives and possessive pronouns in South Central Romani
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/875582
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Distinctive vowel length found in Middle Indo-Aryan has not been maintained in Romani but it has been introduced into several varieties of Romani through language contact (Matras 2002: 59–60). In the present paper, we examine the alternation of vowel length in adjectives and possessive pronouns in the South Central Romani (hence SCR) dialects spoken in present-day Hungary. In short, certain adjectives and possessive pronouns show lengthening of one vowel in predicative position while the vowel remains short in attributive position, i.e. distinctive vowel length appears to be functionalized in these dialects (for a detailed account on vowel lengthening in SCR, see Elšík, this issue).SCR is spoken on the territory of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/420/image/coversmallDevelopment of phonemic length alternation in adjectives and possessive pronouns in South Central Romani2023-01-06text/htmlen-USDevelopment of phonemic length alternation in adjectives and possessive pronouns in South Central Romani2023-01-062023TWOProject MUSE®1239592026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002023-01-06Performance of Romani ethnicity in Klenovec: The pariahdom boundary and its markers
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/875583
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Roma1 are well known in the field of ethnicity studies as a group that even “the most experienced and best-informed academics in the subject are unable to easily define” (Law and Kovats 2018: 39). Moreover, Romani ethnicity has become a “dangerous topic,” over which there has been a great amount of “arguments and bitter disagreements,” often “emotionally charged and highly sensitive” (Marushiakova-Popova and Popov 2016: 23; Mayall 2004: 275). This article aims to contribute to this dangerous topic, proposing a shift in the perspective – not to focus on the question of what Romani ethnicity is but what it does.My ethnographic study is situated in Klenovec, a small municipality in Slovakia where I have been
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/420/image/coversmallPerformance of Romani ethnicity in Klenovec: The pariahdom boundary and its markers2023-01-06text/htmlen-USPerformance of Romani ethnicity in Klenovec: The pariahdom boundary and its markers2023-01-062023TWOProject MUSE®1075692026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002023-01-06Roma writings: Romani literature and press in Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe from the 19th Century until World War II ed. by Raluca Bianca Roman, Sofiya Zahova, Aleksandar G. Marinov (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/875584
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This monograph presents a comprehensive study of Roma writings from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century in Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern Europe. As part of the RomaInterbellum project, the book aims to chronicle Roma’s civic emancipation and focuses on the active participation of this community in historical events and processes. In the foreword, Elena Marushiakova, the Principal Investigator of this project, emphasizes that the objective of the RomaInterBellum is to integrate the history of the Roma into mainstream European history and to incorporate the socio-political visions of the Roma, as described in the literature and press articles, into European political thought.As pointed out
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/420/image/coversmallRoma writings: Romani literature and press in Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe from the 19th Century until World War II ed. by Raluca Bianca Roman, Sofiya Zahova, Aleksandar G. Marinov (review)2023-01-06text/htmlen-USRoma writings: Romani literature and press in Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe from the 19th Century until World War II ed. by Raluca Bianca Roman, Sofiya Zahova, Aleksandar G. Marinov (review)2023-01-062023TWOProject MUSE®373062026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002023-01-06