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dc.contributor.authorMarinov, Aleksandar G.
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-23T08:30:09Z
dc.date.available2020-06-23T08:30:09Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-04
dc.identifier.citationMarinov , A G 2020 , ' Images of Roma through the language of Bulgarian state archives ' , Social Inclusion , vol. 8 , no. 2 , pp. 296-304 . https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v8i2.2787en
dc.identifier.issn2183-2803
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 268642455
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 367f8d5a-3ac2-43b3-99e8-c54dc402cd14
dc.identifier.othercrossref: 10.17645/si.v8i2.2787
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000539206300005
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85090242843
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/20123
dc.description.abstractThis research has been carried out as part of the RomaInterbellum Project which studies the Roma civic emancipation between World War I and World War II. Trawling through the Bulgarian archival documents on Roma in this time period, a reader cannot help but begin to form a certain image about the Tsigani, the term with which Roma have been popularly referred to in the archives. Unsurprisingly, this image does not seem to differ much from the one of today—that of the uneducated, dirty, foreign, and that pose a threat not only to the prosperity and well-being of the Bulgarian population and culture at large but also to the state and the economy. The research is based on archived files, letters of complaints from Bulgarian citizens and other documents sourced from Bulgarian state archives. The article analyses the words and language employed in the archived documents, the connotations they bear and the images they build. It also tries to show how, in the interwar period, this dominant language was utilised by Roma individuals and leaders in order to react, counter and protect their image and future. More importantly, they sought ways to build a better integrated Roma society through the establishment of own organisations and associations. Understanding this historical narrative from the interwar period is essential in advancing knowledge of many major issues surrounding the Roma today, such as housing, health and their social inclusion.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofSocial Inclusionen
dc.rightsCopyright © Aleksandar G. Marinov. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction of the work without further permission provided the original author(s) and source are credited.en
dc.subjectBulgariaen
dc.subjectEmancipationen
dc.subjectGypsyen
dc.subjectInclusionen
dc.subjectLanguageen
dc.subjectRomaen
dc.subjectState archivesen
dc.subjectGN Anthropologyen
dc.subjectDR Balkan Peninsulaen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccGNen
dc.subject.lccDRen
dc.titleImages of Roma through the language of Bulgarian state archivesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Historyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17645/si.v8i2.2787
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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