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"This book compares the educational experiences of adolescents from a variety of 'visible' ethnic minority groups such as Roma in Central Europe, post-colonial minorities in France and England, Turks and Arabs in Germany, and recent immigrants in Scandinavia. Focusing on underprivileged urban contexts, it reveals the structural inequalities and also the often conflict-ridden inter-ethnic relations which develop in classrooms, playgrounds and larger communities. Ranging from explorations of quasi-ghettos to experiments in racial and ethnic integration, the encountered situations shed light on the challenges of managing diversity in local communities and on an all-societal level. The contributions consider both the routine practices of ethnic distinctions and colour-blindness in schooling, as well as the ways in which various actors - students, teachers, and parents - experience and understand these practices. In doing so, this volume reveals that despite the broad consensus on equal opportunity as a desirable aim, ethnic differentiation remains a key source of exclusion across Europe."--

While the development of civil society organisations in Hungary has been impressive in terms of number and diversity, its influence has remained limited on policy-making. Administrative attempts to draw civil society under tight regulation and control have produced a blurring of the boundaries between the civil and the public spheres that, in turn, has impaired the independent voice and criticism of civil society. Therefore, economic acts based on solidarity and originating from civil society do not automatically form or increase a 'social economy' but become as contested by and as intermingled with political developments as other acts of civil society. This development also has affected the profile of civil activities: against the earlier impressive weight of anti-poverty, anti-racist and human rights engagements, the 'non-risky' activities of sports and leisure services have come to domination. A turn toward declining participation is a warning sign of the decreasing contribution of civil society to everyday democracy.

Thirty years after the collapse of Communism, and at a time of increasing anti-migrant and anti-Roma sentiment, this book analyses how Roma identity is expressed in contemporary Europe. From backgrounds ranging from political theory, postcolonial, cultural and gender studies to art history, feminist critique and anthropology, the contributors reflect on the extent to which a politics of identity regarding historically disadvantaged, racialized minorities such as the Roma can still be legitimately articulated

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: REPRODUCTION AS POLITICS -- CHAPTER 1 Between Ideology, Politics, and Common Sense: The Discourse of Reproductive Rights in Poland -- CHAPTER 2 Reproductive Policies in the Czech and Slovak Republics -- CHAPTER 3 Talking about Women and Wombs: The Discourse of Abortion and Reproductive Rights in the G.D.R. during and after the Wende -- CHAPTER 4 Birth Strike in the New Federal States: Is Sterilization an Act of Resistance? -- PART TWO: GENDER RELATIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE -- CHAPTER 5 Changing Images of Identity in Poland: From the Self-Sacrificing to the Self-Investing Woman? -- CHAPTER 6 Women's Life Trajectories and Class Formation in Hungary -- CHAPTER 7 From Informal Labor to Paid Occupations: Marketization from below in Hungarian Women's Work -- CHAPTER 8 Women's Sexuality and Reproductive Behavior in Post-Ceausescu Romania: A Psychological Approach -- PART THREE: ARENAS OF POLITICAL ACTION: STRUGGLES FOR REPRESENTATION -- CHAPTER 9 New Gender Relations in Poland in the 1990s -- CHAPTER 10 New Parliament, Old Discourse? The Parental Leave Debate in Hungary -- CHAPTER 11 Women's NGOs in Romania -- CHAPTER 12 Women's Problems, Women's Discourses in Bulgaria -- CHAPTER 13 Belgrade's SOS Hotline for Women and Children Victims of Violence: A Report -- CHAPTER 14 Media Representations of Men and Women in Times of War and Crisis: The Case of Serbia -- CONCLUSION -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX