Overview
- Researches the legal feasibility of ethnic data collection
- Explores positive action for equality and anti-discrimination purposes in general
- Provides a special focus on the Roma minority in Europe
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Positive Action
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About this book
This book addresses the legal feasibility of ethnic data collection and positive action for equality and anti-discrimination purposes, and considers how they could be used to promote the Roma minority’s inclusion in Europe. The book’s central aim is to research how a societal problem can be improved upon from a legal perspective. The controversy surrounding ethnic data collection and positive action severely limits their use at the national level. Accordingly, legal and political concerns are analysed and addressed in order to demonstrate that it is possible to collect such data and to implement such measures while fully respecting international and European human rights norms, provided that certain conditions are met.
Part I focuses on ethnic data collection and explores the key rules and principles that govern it, the ways in which this equality tool could be used, and how potential obstacles might be overcome. It also identifies and addresses the specific challenges that arise when collecting ethnic data on the Roma minority in Europe. In turn, Part II explores positive action and the broad range of measures covered by the concept, before analysing the applicable international and European framework. It reviews the benefits and challenges of implementing positive action for Roma, identifies best practices, and gives special consideration to inter-cultural mediation in the advancement of Roma inclusion.
The book concludes with an overview of the main findings on both topics and by identifying three essential elements that must be in place, in addition to full respect for the applicable legal rules, in order to combat discrimination and achieve the inclusion of Roma in Europe by complementing existing anti-discrimination frameworks with the collection of ethnic data and the implementation of positive action schemes.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Legal Aspects of Ethnic Data Collection and Positive Action
Book Subtitle: The Roma Minority in Europe
Authors: Jozefien Van Caeneghem
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23668-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23667-0Published: 20 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23670-0Published: 20 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23668-7Published: 05 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 728
Topics: Human Rights, Ethnicity Studies, European Politics, European Law, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Privacy