{"id":1848,"date":"2013-05-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/31-05-2013-rroma-in-bosnia-herzegovina\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T09:26:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T08:26:39","slug":"31-05-2013-rroma-in-bosnia-herzegovina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/31-05-2013-rroma-in-bosnia-herzegovina\/","title":{"rendered":"31.05.2013 Rroma in Bosnia Herzegovina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Fuster (2013) reports on  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe precarious ethnic politics in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The government accepted  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tonly considers three ethnic groups as relevant: Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims),  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSerbs and Croats. The rest, including Rroma are, according to Fuster considered  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tto be deviant and politically discredited. Only the Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thave real opportunities to access management positions and other State jobs. Those  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twho oppose to this ethnic categorization, fall both statistically and socially  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinto the category of \u201cothers\u201d, and are excluded and ignored. The new census of  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe population, planned for this October, which will also capture ethnic \u201cneutrality\u201d  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thas become a much-publicized political issue. The present rulers they fear the  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnew census because it could diminish their power or legitimacy and confirm the  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\temergence of non-ethnic Bosnians. The responsible director of the Bosnian  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStatistics Agency is facing in a questions on the definition of ethnicity,  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlanguage and religion, questions which have nothing to do with statistics.  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFuster explains: \u201cPolitical power is still defined by an ethnic key based on  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe census of 1991. At that time, 4.4 million people were counted, 44 percent were  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMuslims, 31 percent Serbs and 17 percent Croats. [&#8230;] What would happen if  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMuslims would no longer define themselves as Bosniaks, Catholics no longer as  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCroats, and Orthodox no longer as Serbs? The idea of \u200b\u200bethnic federalism, based  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ton only three ethnic groups could hardly still be justified.\u201d Fuster sees a  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tclear distinction between urban and rural areas in terms of ethnic identiy. In  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tan urban context, there are more and more ethnically mixed marriages while in  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe country, ethnic categories still prevail in thoughts and are still  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpolitically exploited. For Rroma, the status quo means a continued lack of  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tacceptance of their voice and concerns. They belong to the \u201cothers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fuster, Thomas (2013) Das Leben der anderen. In: Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung vom 28.5.2013.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuster (2013) reports on the precarious ethnic politics in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The government accepted only considers three ethnic groups as relevant: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[608,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bosnia","category-news-eastern-europe","category-news-western-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11498,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/11498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}