Romani Migrations and EU Enlargement: Reply to Critics and some Epistemological Considerations for Policy-making

In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 47-61

Abstract

This article examines the criticism that we received regarding our article "Romani Migrations and EU Enlargement" which was published in Volume 13, Number 2 of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs (CRIA). In this reply we seek to clarify our position, pointing to distinctions between advocacy and policy analysis, between descriptive and normative statements, and to a need to examine not only the problems that the Roma face, but also those that their situation poses to policy-makers.