„Wir haben ein Recht stolz zu sein.“ Die Emanzipationsbewegung der Roma und Sinti in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1950–1983

Klein, Anne

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-09539-0_17

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„Wir haben ein Recht stolz zu sein.“ Die Emanzipationsbewegung der Roma und Sinti in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1950–1983

Anne Klein

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Shifting the agency of remembering: Inventing the loyal Romani victim in the context of Austrian memory debates

Benedik¹

2018

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Many paradoxes characterise the case of Romani communities, who have been dubbed one of Europe’s most eminent ‘problems’. On the one hand, European states are increasingly acknowledging Romani people as a victim group of National Socialism and the Second World War while, on the other hand, politics and public debate continue to discriminate against contemporary Romani communities. As part of identity politics, Romani organisations have been highlighting their history of persecution, a process initiated at the time when the memory of National Socialism has become established as the core of European collective memory. This paper examines how narratives of a violent past have been integrated into Austrian ‘national memory’ and how this intersects with the construction of Romani victimhood history – often as a consequence of Romani organisation’s own efforts of telling their community’s history. I argue that the mainstreaming of Romani suffering is first due to a successful integration of Romani victims into the framework of a new understanding of ‘racially’ diverse Austrian victimhood. Second, I trace the role of individual protagonists within these processes of acknowledgment and highlight the relevance of gendered positions in developing a new racialised history of persecution.

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Shifting the agency of remembering: Inventing the loyal Romani victim in the context of Austrian memory debates

Benedik¹

2018

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Non-committal memory: The ambivalent inclusion of Romani suffering under National Socialism in hegemonic cultural memory

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2018

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This article compares the place of Romani migrants in contemporary Austrian society to their position in memory debates. It analyses official forms of commemoration which had the intentions not only to remember the victims of past atrocities, but also included a normative, moral aspect – namely, the promise that memory of past injustice would somehow be a useful device against racism, injustice and discrimination in the present day. In this understanding, history, especially the history of National Socialism would ideally teach societies valuable lessons about the treatment of minorities, thus also the Romani communities, in the present. While this still is the predominant political discourse about these forms of memory, the author suggests that memory culture can by contrast be described by what he refers to as non-committal memory. He argues, that when looking at Central European examples, it immediately becomes transparent that memory is only applied in abstract discussions while all immediate connections between contemporary discrimination and historical suffering are neglected. Thus, non-committal memory disconnects present and past policies, and delegitimises a comparison between the persecution of past victim groups and the criminalisation of present-day migrants. The author contends that this is visible by the fact that the majority of memorials that honour Romani victims of National Socialism (in Austria, but also across much of Europe) fail to include or contribute to an understanding of the plight of contemporary Romani people, especially Romani migrants. Arguably, this resulted from the strategies by which activists decided to copy memory politics related to Jewish victims of National Socialism as a ‘successful’ model of integration.

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„Wir haben ein Recht stolz zu sein.“ Die Emanzipationsbewegung der Roma und Sinti in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1950–1983

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Shifting the agency of remembering: Inventing the loyal Romani victim in the context of Austrian memory debates

Shifting the agency of remembering: Inventing the loyal Romani victim in the context of Austrian memory debates

Non-committal memory: The ambivalent inclusion of Romani suffering under National Socialism in hegemonic cultural memory

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