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Migrating Towards Minority Status: Shifting European Policy Towards Roma *
Author(s) -
GUGLIELMO RACHEL,
WATERS TIMOTHY WILLIAM
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2005.00595.x
Subject(s) - rhetoric , political science , rhetorical question , trace (psycholinguistics) , resizing , minority rights , action (physics) , political economy , development economics , sociology , european union , human rights , law , international trade , economics , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
During the 1990s, European policy towards Roma evolved from concern about migration toward rhetoric about rights. In this article we trace that shift across two OSCE reports. Following rhetorical‐action models, we show how the EU's commitment to enlargement and ‘common values’ compelled it to elaborate an internal approach to minority protection. Concerns about migration persist, but Europe now has to consider how to integrate Roma as minorities.