Paper Titles & Abstracts

This paper examines the sources for anti-Roma attitudes in the enlarged EU 27. Historically, have been one Europe's most marginalized and persecuted minorities. Together with Jews European Roma have been victims of the Holocaust (known as Porajoms). More recently, Roma have reappeared on the agenda of national and European politics. In France, several Roma camps were dismantled and Romanian Roma were returned to their country of origin - events which attracted unprecedented criticism from the European Commission.In this paper, we study the anti-Roma attitudes by analyzing data compiled from two Eurobarometer surveys (2006 and 2008) which provides detailed information. We run a series of multilevel hierarchical linear models are estimated to study the effects of individual and country-level sources of negative attitudes towards Roma. We study the impact of the size Roma population living in the country on attitudes and cleavages between member states from Eastern and Western member states. Lastly, we make socio-economic profile of those who are more likely to express positive and negative attitudes towards Roma. To our knowledge, this paper is the first study to systematically explore the sources of Anti-Roma attitudes across European societies.