Roma Inclusion in the Croatian Society: a Baseline Data Study Suzana Kunac, Ksenija Klasnić, Sara Lalić
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Roma Inclusion in the Croatian Society: a Baseline Data Study Suzana Kunac, KSenija KlaSnić, Sara lalić iPa 2012 Fulfilling conditions for Roma integration on the local/ regional and the national level. This publication was made EuropEan union with financial support from the European Union and the Government Office for Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities. From a Peer revieW by Dr. nenaD Karajić, aSSociate ProFeSSor: “... Scientific in tone and empirical in the multi-layeredness, this book joins the hand- ful of studies of the Roma population conducted so far in Croatia and abroad, which have been singled out as the contextual substratum for current scientific and rese- arch work. Most notable among these are three studies, the 2011 UNDP, World Bank and European Commission study, EU MIDIS I of 2008 and EU MIDIS II of 2016. As the authors inform us in the summary, the entire empirical research was conducted using a threefold analysis. In the first stage, so-called pre-research, mapping was carried out “with the primary goal of establishing the Roma population as a precondition for sampling and descri- bing the community, as well as gathering data on the specificities of the locations inhabited by members of the Roma national minority (e.g. data on the availability of public services, transport connections, access to social events and facilities, utilities infrastructure etc.) The second stage concerned “conducting semi-structured interviews with represen- tatives of the relevant institutions at the level of local self-government units and members of the Roma national minority, as well as conducting seven focus groups with representatives of the relevant institutions at the county level”. Hence, this is a comprehensive (the overall number of participants in the qualitative research is 281) and excellently done work of applying the qualitative methodology of social sciences (in-depth interviews and focus groups). The third stage, quantitative research using the face-to-face survey method, merits special attention. “The quantitative dimension, as the central and key segment of this study, concerned researching the experiences of the Roma national minority itself, with the aim of gathering baseline data needed to monitor the implementation of the National Roma Inclusion Strategy.” Considering the methodological difficulties in ensuring sample representativeness in studies of the Roma population (dispersion of interviewees, seasonal oscillations and migrations, interviewees’ low education, di- fficulties establishing ethnic identity, social ‘mimicry’ etc.) that are well known in the profession, this project will earn an enviable reputation both today and in the near future precisely on the merit of its grounding in a systematic and strict scientific met- hodology whose use has allowed it to overcome all the general and specific difficulties characteristic of such studies. Let us single out at least two ‘exciting’ indicators pre- sented in the study that speak in favour of such a judgement of the methodological seriousness and excellence with which the project has been carried out: the carefully designed and correspondingly precisely determined total number of members of the Roma national minority in the Republic of Croatia and the exceptionally large en- compassed sample and described structure of the Roma population in relation to the general population of Croatian inhabitants...” Roma Inclusion in the Croatian Society: a Baseline Data Study Suzana Kunac, KSenija KlaSnić, Sara lalić Zagreb 2018 original title: naslov izvornika: Uključivanje Roma u hrvatsko društvo: Uključivanje Roma u hrvatsko društvo: istraživanje baznih podataka istraživanje baznih podataka Publisher: Centre for Peace Studies izdavač: Centar za mirovne studije resPonsible rePresentative of the za izdavača: Cvijeta Senta Publisher: Cvijeta Senta autorice: Suzana Kunac, Ksenija Klasnić i authors: Suzana Kunac, Ksenija Sara Lalić Klasnić and Sara Lalić recenzenti: Olja Družić Ljubotina i Nenad reviewers: Olja Družić Ljubotina Karajić and Nenad Karajić lektura: Petra Bušelić translated by: Hana Dvornik grafičko oblikovanje i PriPrema: kuna zlatica and Srđan Dvornik tisak: Kerschoffset Zagreb d.o.o. design, layout, PrePress: kuna zlatica naklada: 350 komada Printed by: Kerschoffset Zagreb d.o.o. Zagreb, srpanj 2018. Print-run: 350 Zagreb, July 2018. Research team Istraživački tim head researcher: Suzana Kunac glavna istraživačica: Suzana Kunac field research manager: Ksenija Klasnić voditeljica terenskog istraživanja: Ksenija core research team: Branko Ančić, Klasnić Lana Jurman, Sara Lalić, Danijela uži istraživački tim: Branko Ančić, Lana Lucić, Jasna Račić, Petra Rodik, Izvor Jurman, Sara Lalić, Danijela Lucić, Jasna Rukavina and Iva Zenzerović Šloser Račić, Petra Rodik, Izvor Rukavina i Iva Zenzerović Šloser CIP record is available in the digital catalogue CIP zapis je dostupan u računalnome katalogu of the National and University Library in Nacionalne i sveučilišne knjižnice u Zagrebu pod Zagreb, CIP number 001003490. brojem 001003490. ISBN 978-953-7729-54-7 ISBN 978-953-7729-54-7 EuropEan union This publication was made with financial support from the European Union, in the framework of the project “Collecting and monitoring baseline data for an efficient implementation of the National Roma Inclusion Strategy”, implemented within the IPA 2012 Programme, “Fulfilling conditions for Roma integration on the local/ regional and the national level” The consortium of bidders, Ecorys Croatia and Centre for Peace Studies, are exclusively responsible for the content, which does not necessarily present the positions of the European Union and the Government Office for Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities. Roma Inclusion in the Croatian Society: a Baseline Data Study Suzana Kunac, KSenija KlaSnić, Sara lalić Collection and monitoring of the baseline data for an efficient implementation of the National Roma Integration Strategy Contract no.: 2012-01-23-030-301 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This study is a result of effort on the part of a large number of people, institutions and organisations that invested their time, knowledge, experience and exceptional effort to make this publication possible. Kunac, Klasnić, Lalić Kunac, The Government Office for Human Rights and the Rights of National Minorities is the tudy / tudy s institution in which the idea on conducting such a study originated, and credit for the ata ata d fact that the study was even set in motion primarily goes to them. We would like to aseline express our gratitude to the Office for this, as well as for its dedication to this project b / a and the professional and human support provided by Office employees Klaudija Kregar Orešković, Aleksa Đokić, Katarina Coha and Maja Brkić to the research team through all stages of implementation of the research. We are also grateful to members of the project’s Executive Committee, Member of Parliament Veljko Kajtazi and Suzana Krčmar, roatian Society roatian c president of Union of Roma in the Republic of Croatia, “KALI SARA”, whose engagement and advice solved problems that sometimes appeared unresolvable, and whose support ion in the ion in S opened many doors for us. nclu i oma oma r Such an expansive study could never be realised without a large number of people working in the implementation in the field. It was indeed a collective undertaking in which more than one hundred collaborators in pre-research and canvassers were enga- ged, representatives of the Roma national minority and others. Their work has greatly contributed to the quality of the research itself. Above all, we would like to thank our collaborators from the ranks of representatives of the Roma national minority and Roma organisations: Zuhdija Ahmetović, Halidia Alijagić, Đani Avdo, Jetiš Bajrami, Josip Ba- log, Kruno Balog, Mario Balog, Željko Balog, Mirela Beko, Ivica Bogdan, Marijan Bogdan, Zlatko Bogdan, Rade Demirović, Branko Đurđević, Mirveta Gaši, Stevo Gjurdjević, Darija Goreta, Seljman Gušani, Vinko Horak, Franjo Horvat, Veli Huseini, Damir Ignac, Mladen Ignac, Klaudija Hasani Jašarevski, Talita Jašarevski, Neđatin Kamberovski, Duško Kostić, Sadik Krasnić, Siniša Senad Musić, Nedeljko Marić, Alija Mešić, Elham Memedi, Nazif Memedi, Ramiza Memedi, Orhan Memedi, Milorad Mihanović, Milan Mitrović, Ismet Mutiši, Ranko Nikolić, Stanoje Nikolić, Adam Oršuš, Damir Oršuš, Eduard Oršuš, Matjaš Oršuš, Safet Oršuš, Željko Oršoš, Branko Petrović, Josip Petrović, Ibrahim Punušković, Robert Radić, Ivan Rumbak, Jadran Seferović, Čedo Todorović and Šaha Zahirović. We are also grateful to all members of the research team, that is, collaborators in the research, canvassers and mappers, Milena Babić, Nikola Bajai, Đurđica Balog, Damir Bog- dan, Lejla Bužinkić, Petra Čačić, Dragana Đurđević, Marija Dejanović, Velimir Gašparac, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ena Grabar, Petar Grimani, Glorija Grujić, Damir Horvat, Krešo Horvat, Nena Horvat, Goran Ilić, Andreja Ilija, Vladimir Ivanović, Josip Jagić, Darko Josipović, Sara Jurčić, Mari- jana Kapetanović, Tomislav Kevo, Marko Marelić, Marina Mešić, Marko Milošević, Bruna Nedoklan, Marijan Nikolić, Bojan Nonković, Jagoda Novak, Maja Odrčić Mikulić, Samir Oršoš, Marina Petras, Jovana Petrović, Jure Mudronja Pleša, Iva Prprović, Josipa Punda, Jovica Radosavljević, Ivan Roško, Andrea Rudan, Ana Rukavina, Ivančica Sklepić, Hrvoje Šimunko, Elizabeta Takač, Erik Ušić, Domagoj Valjak, Željko Vasiljević and Deana Vincelj. Without their patience and tireless work, often in difficult