Social Exclusion and the Roma in Central Europe - JTM315

• Title: Social Exclusion and the Roma in Central Europe
• Guaranteed by: Department of Russian and East European Studies (23-KRVS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 15 / unknown (15)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Level: specialized
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Mgr. Ondřej Klípa, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Ondřej Klípa, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Annotation

The course explores mechanisms of social exclusion of the Roma in the EU Member States of Central Europe
(Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania). The Czech Republic will be the leading
case. We will examine the topic from different perspectives: historical, political, and sociological. Roots of social
exclusion will be studied from Middle Age to nowadays. Particular attention will be paid to the Communist period
and the political and economical transformation in the 1990s. Within the context of social exclusion, we will look at
racism theory as well as specific features of the traditional Roma culture. We will study all main fields of social
exclusion (housing, labor market, education) and its consequences (criminality, prostitution, drug abuse,
gambling addiction, indebtedness, poor health etc.). Possible ways of social inclusion will be identified. The
course will present disputes over these solutions both in academia (the culture of poverty v. multiculturalism) and
in the field of practical policies (socio-economic/ civic approach v. identity policy). Important part of the course will be
given to considering both common and different features of the situation of Roma population in the States in focus.
Finally, anti-Roma policies and social exclusion of the Roma as pan-European problems will be discussed.

The course is open only for students of master's degree programmes.

Last update: Bartůšek Jaroslav, Bc. (07.02.2026)

Course completion requirements

According to the Dean's provision, the teacher evaluates the student's performance in the percentages assigned to grades A to F (https://fsv.cuni.cz/opatreni-dekanky-c-20/2019):

• 91% and more   => A
• 81-90%             => B
• 71-80%             => C
• 61-70%             => D
• 51-60%             => E
• 0-50%               => F

Last update: Lochmanová Sára, Mgr. (05.02.2024)

Literature

Please refer to the syllabus below for the assigned readings for each lesson.

Last update: Šmidrkal Václav, PhDr., Ph.D. (09.03.2025)