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European Roma Rights Centre - ERRC
MULTIPLE
DISCRIMINATION - Call for Submissions
Full articles must be submitted to
the ERRC by 15 October 2009.
Submissions
must follow the ERRC Style
Sheet.
Contact:
Coordinating Editor of Roma Rights, Sinan Gokcen: sinan.gokcen@errc.org.
The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) is looking for
original articles and other submissions (book reviews, interview with key
figures and conference reports) from a broad range of disciplines addressing
the issue of discrimination that Romani individuals, groups and communities
face on multiple grounds.
Unlawful discrimination, in its legal sense, is treating a person or group less
favourably than another in the same situation, usually on the grounds of their race,
gender, disability, age, sexual orientation or religion or some other protected
category. Discrimination can be in direct or indirect forms. Various
international instruments as well as domestic regulations forbid such
discrimination.
However, people and human societies are diverse, complex and multi-layered.
Thus, a person, in most cases, bears more than one identity such as being
Romani, a woman, a mother, a homosexual, a person with a disability, and so on.
There are cases where a person becomes the victim of a discriminatory practice
due to the combination of different identities that s/he possesses. For example
a Romani woman can be denied a job because she is a “woman” and she is
“Romani”. Multiple discrimination occurs when a person is subjected to
discrimination on more than one ground and can occur when someone experiences
discrimination on different grounds on separate occasions. This situation is
also called “parallel discrimination”. Secondly, it can be “additive” or
“compound”, where the discrimination occurs on the basis of two or more grounds
simultaneously and where the discrimination on one ground intensifies the
discrimination experienced on the basis of the other ground. The third type
occurs when the discrimination involves more than one ground and the grounds
interact with each other in such a way that they are completely inseparable.
This is often called “intersectional discrimination”. These terms have been
increasingly used in recent years but little concrete information has been made
available on this topic concerning Roma.
In this issue of Roma Rights, ERRC seeks submissions which reflect on and seek
to provide answers to questions like:
Individual testimonies reflecting the experiences of Romani persons are
particularly welcome. Articles offering critical insight to lessons learned in
similar situations in different countries, as well as submissions reflecting
the perspective of the grassroots Roma movement are also welcome.
Submissions addressing the theme from other perspectives are also welcome.
Process
Full articles must be submitted to the ERRC by 15 October 2009. All
submissions will be reviewed by a committee of ERRC staff who will make the
final selection of articles for publication.
Please send queries and submissions to the Coordinating Editor of Roma Rights,
Sinan Gokcen: sinan.gokcen@errc.org.
Submission guidelines
The ERRC reserves the right to refuse publication of submissions at any point
prior to the publication of the Journal.
Background
The ERRC is an international public interest law organisation engaging in a
range of activities to combat anti-Romani racism and human rights abuse of
Roma. The approach of the ERRC involves strategic litigation, international
advocacy, research and policy development, and human rights training of Romani
activists.
Roma Rights is the ERRC’s flagship journal. Published since 1996, Roma Rights
has provided a forum for critical discussion of some of the most important
human rights concerns of Roma in Europe. The journal is widely distributed in
Europe and highly respected as a resource in this field. Each issue of Roma
Rights is dedicated to a specific theme. All issues of Roma Rights are
available on the ERRC
website.
2009-09-08
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