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Romani Politics in Contemporary Europe pp 51–71Cite as

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The Romani Subaltern within Neoliberal European Civil Society: NGOization of Human Rights and Silent Voices

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The examination of both questions of power and positionality with respect to class, gender, ethnicity and other vectors of identity is fundamental to a deeper, more nuanced understanding of the hierarchies embedded within the domain of contemporary European civil society (cf. Kóczé, chapter 7). It is therefore not a coincidence that a Romani woman activist from an isolated village on the Hungarian-Ukrainian border has a decidedly different voice within the global human rights arena than an Ivy League-educated male lawyer who holds an American passport and works in Eastern Europe.

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  1. Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK

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  2. University College London’s School of Public Policy and Political Science, UK

    Nidhi Trehan (ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) research fellow) (ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) research fellow)

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Trehan, N. (2009). The Romani Subaltern within Neoliberal European Civil Society: NGOization of Human Rights and Silent Voices. In: Sigona, N., Trehan, N. (eds) Romani Politics in Contemporary Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281165_3

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