Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.30925/zpfsr.38.2.2
LEGAL STATUS OF ROMA IN CROATIA-SLAVONIA FROM 1868 TO 1918
Ivan Kosnica
orcid.org/0000-0002-0467-6062
; Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The aim of the paper is analysis of legal status of Roma in Croatia-Slavonia in
the period after reaching Croatian-Hungarian Compromise in 1868 until dissolution
of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1918. The basic thesis elaborated in the
paper is that Croatian-Slavonian public affiliation was fundamental determinant of
public status of Roma in Croatia-Slavonia while this cannot be said for Hungarian-
Croatian national citizenship. Following this approach, the author analyses politics
of differentiation of domestic, so called Croatian-Slavonian Roma, and other
foreign Roma in which Roma from Hungary were also included. In the paper the
author points out that the Croatian-Slavonian authorities implemented inclusive
policy towards domestic Roma who acted in accordance with the law while
applied repressive measures towards vagrant domestic Roma. In the last part of the
paper the author analyses practical problems and solutions in cases when foreign
belonging of Roma had to be determined. In addition, the author analyses policy
of deportation of foreign Roma. The research is based on relevant literature, laws,
regulations and archival sources available in Croatian State Archive, the materials
of Internal Department of the Provincial Government.
Keywords
legal status; Roma; citizenship; Croatian-Slavonian affiliation; Croatia-Slavonia
Hrčak ID:
184319
URI
Publication date:
10.7.2017.
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