MIT University Skopje , Skopje , North Macedonia
Roma are Europe's most vulnerable and marginalized community, living on the outskirts of society. A large portion of the Roma community lives below the poverty line in substandard catches, exposing them to a wide range of risks to their lives on a daily basis. Adequate health care and access to the educational process are required to improve their social standing; however, in the majority of European countries, these prerequisites are either inaccessible to the Roma population or, where they exist and are accessible to them, they are frequently segregated and separated from the rest of the communities by race. Globalization, as a global process, has, among other things, accelerated the process of ethnic identity construction and political articulation in the last decade. This trend of Malcinski's internationalization (ethnic) rights is especially relevant for countries in transition, which have the status of candidates for EU membership or what they intend to obtain. Of course, this type of commitment also serves as a model for the standards and criteria that these countries should incorporate into their legislation in order to affirm and protect human rights. Experience has shown that the traditional approach to minority rights in relation to the Roma does not produce the expected results, namely that the situation with the Roma in relation to other ethnic communities is completely different, and thus this approach does not solve the problem efficiently.
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