Naslov
Perception of and Attitude towards Roma in Media Publications of the Independent State of Croatia, 1941 – 1945

Autori
Vojak, Danijel ; Kovačev, Neven

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, pp prezentacija, znanstveni

Skup
The 2014 Annual Meeting of the Gypsy Lore Society and Conference on Gypsy Studies.

Mjesto i datum
Bratislava, Slovačka, 11.09.2014. - 13.09.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Roma; the Independent State of Croatia; media; perception.

Sažetak
Romani settled on the Croatian territory in the second half of the 14th century and, similarly as in the other European countries, the perception of the authorities and the population towards them soon changed and became mainly negative. Croatian state and local authorities tried, especially from the second half of the 19th century, to create a solution to the quite impalpable “Gypsy issue” ; in so doing, they found solutions by means of ever more numerous periodicals. Therefore in the first half of the 20th century a negative perception of Romani as graceless criminals, idlers and sluggards, swindlers and kidnappers of children prevailed. On the basis of that perception, the same media called for the necessity of the implementation of strict measures against Romani, such as forced colonization, assimilation, detachment of children from their families etc. In the period between the World Wars Croatian authorities were not implementing all the mentioned measures towards Romani, but limited their activities on creating the systematic program of their colonization. Yet, pro-fascistic Ustaša authorities in the Independent State of Croatia during the World War II soon after seizing the power started the policy of listing and racial classification, and subsequently deporting and killing Romani in concentration camps, especially Jasenovac. The question is posed why were Ustaša authorities implementing such a repressive policy towards Romani and to which extent was the existing negative perception towards them, projected by means of official and unofficial propaganda media, responsible for that policy. Therefore, the analysis will be directed towards exploration of the perception of and attitude towards Romani in the most relevant periodicals in the Independent State of Croatia and will encompass periodicals written in Croatian and German that were issued by the representatives of the Croatian and Nazi authorities. Likewise, an attempt will be made to observe the attitude towards and perception of Romani in the context of the Ustaša perception of and attitude towards the other parts of the undesirable minority population, such as Jews or Serbs, and to perceive similarities and differences.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest

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