The EU, Segregation and Rule of Law Resilience in Hungary

2018

Anthropology of East Europe Review, 2008

Inspired by recent Hungarian legislative developments that, in reference to the Roma minority, exchanged the term “ethnic minority” with “nationality”, by providing a detailed case study of the development and morphology of policy measures and frameworks in Hungary, the article provides a general assessment of the relationship between policy in-struments and terminology: that is, definitions and conceptualizations in international and domestic legal and policy documents for minority groups. The author argues that while terminology in itself is not a reliable signifier for policy frameworks, it may reveal contradictory group conceptualization and inconsistent policy-making. In regards to the Ro-ma, the author claims that the inconsistent labelling as an ethnic, racial and national minority reflects the lack of con-sistent conceptualization of who the Roma are, and what should be done with them.

2015

Inspired by recent Hungarian legislative developments that, in reference to the Roma minority, exchanged the term “ethnic minority ” with “nationality”, by providing a detailed case study of the development and morphology of policy measures and frameworks in Hungary, the article provides a general assessment of the relationship between policy in-struments and terminology: that is, definitions and conceptualizations in international and domestic legal and policy documents for minority groups. The author argues that while terminology in itself is not a reliable signifier for policy frameworks, it may reveal contradictory group conceptualization and inconsistent policy-making. In regards to the Ro-ma, the author claims that the inconsistent labelling as an ethnic, racial and national minority reflects the lack of con-sistent conceptualization of who the Roma are, and what should be done with them.