"Les usages politiques du corps". Université d’été du 25 au 30 aout 2014 en Albanie. / Claudia Lichnofsky

New ethnic identifications due to antiziganism – racism against so called ‘Gypsies’

New ethnic identifications are not created out of nowhere nor are they natural appearances of historic roots but usually follow a certain strategy which fulfills certain needs. One of the needs can be the avoidance of racist stereotypes. This is the case with Egyptians and Ashkali who try to escape antiziganist stereotypes through claiming other ethnicities than Roma. After the war not only the Serbian population but also Roma and Albanian speaking communities were driven out of the (...)