Perspectivas sobre o projeto do Estatuto dos Povos Ciganos à luz de práticas brasileiras e internacionais em política identitária

Abstract

This research revolves around Brazilian Senate Law Project 248/2015, which proposes the so-called Gypsy People’s Statute, and which has gained media attention in recent years as it passes on through the Senate and Chamber of Deputies in Brasília. The Statute sheds light, in an unprecedented way, on the long-standing cause for which Roma leaders and various support entities have been fighting in Brazil for more than two decades, raising efforts and communicating demands for more efficient public policies for these sparsely documented but ever-present ethnic groups that are in constant situation of marginality. In addition to an analysis of the text of the Project, the advocacy in its favor at a national level and the critical considerations towards its approval, this research will include a balance of previous efforts and achievements around policies aimed at Roma groups in Brazil, and also a brief survey of best practice at an international level in policies aimed at Roma