The Roma of Bulgaria: A pariah minority
The Roma of Bulgaria: A pariah minority
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保加利亚的罗姆人：被贱民的少数群体
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2004
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R. Vassilev
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R. Vassilev
引言
迄今为止，罗姆人（吉普赛人）仍然是整个东欧最大的受排斥族群。在过去大约十年中，东欧的罗姆人吸引了大量国际关注，因为越来越多的他们放弃自己的祖国，到西方尤其是西欧寻求政治庇护。也许是他们备受关注且不受欢迎的大规模西迁的间接结果，出现了许多研究试图解释东欧罗姆人绝望的困境以及他们与该地区多民族社会的复杂关系。对这些罗姆人的待遇正成为冷战后欧洲最重要的人权问题之一，这必然会对欧盟（EU）的计划扩张产生重大影响。东欧罗姆人（在欧洲估计800万的罗姆人口中占四分之三以上）大规模涌入不断扩大的欧盟的西欧成员国，可能会引发民众对极端民族主义政治家、政党和运动的支持激增，从而轻易地演变成一场政治灾难。
本文旨在探讨后共产主义时期保加利亚罗姆族群的社会经济和政治地位。它具体论述了保加利亚罗姆人作为受压迫的少数民族的脆弱地位，以及他们在适应转型中的祖国的艰难环境时所面临的众多问题和障碍。
Introduction The Roma remain to date the greatest pariah of ethnic groups in all of Eastern Europe. In the last decade or so, East European Roma have been attracting a lot of international attention as increasingly large numbers of them are abandoning their native countries to seek political asylum in the West, especially Western Europe. Probably as an indirect result of their highly publicized and unwelcome mass migration westward, many studies have appeared that try to explain the desperate predicament of East European Roma and their troubled relationship with the multi-ethnic societies of the region. The treatment of these Roma is emerging as one of the most important human rights issues in post-Cold War Europe, which cannot help but have a significant bearing on the planned expansion of the European Union (EU). An escalating mass exodus of the East European Roma (who comprise more than three-fourths of Europe’s estimated 8 million Roma population) into the West European members of the expanding Union could easily turn into a political catastrophe by igniting an explosion of popular support for extreme nationalist politicians, parties and movements. It is the intention of this article to deal with the socio-economic and political status of the Roma community in post-Communist Bulgaria. It specifically discusses the Bulgarian Roma’s tenuous position as an oppressed national minority and the numerous problems and obstacles they face in adapting to the difficult circumstances of their transitional homeland.