The Challenge of Recognition, Redistribution and Representation of Roma in Contemporary Europe

This concluding chapter of the book recapitulates the findings of the individual contributions from the perspective of Nancy Fraser’s reflection on the reconceptualization of justice in post-1989 Europe. We follow her observation that, under postsocialist conditions, the increased societal focus on identity politics and recognitive dimensions of minority-related affairs has problematically coincided with a truncated politics of redistribution. However, rather than merely striving for a more equal and just society through balancing the recognitive and redistributive dimensions, in our reflection on the situation of Roma, we follow Fraser’s suggestion that justice should be achieved through a thorough reconsideration of the dimension of representation, understood as the ability to re-problematize disputes about justice.