Transnational Roma Networks Ad-hoc Collection at CNSAS

The Transnational Roma Networks Ad-hoc Collection at CNSAS comprises documents created or collected by the Romanian secret police, the Securitate, about the transnational relations of the Roma community. From among the members of this community who willingly assumed this identity, two leaders and activists, Nicolae Gheorghe and Ion Cioabă, stood out during the 1980s. They were among the few people in communist Romania who had the courage to rise up against the aggressive policy of forced assimilation of Roma that threatened their survival as a distinct ethnic and cultural group. As a result, their stand against discriminatory treatment of Roma people in communist Romania brought them into close collaboration with foreign researchers and Roma transnational organisations, also interested in the fate of the persecuted Roma.

CNSAS跨国罗姆人网络临时收集项目，收录了罗马尼亚秘密警察——安全局关于罗姆社区跨国关系的文档。在众多自愿承担这一身份的社区成员中，尼科莱·热尔吉和伊昂·乔巴两位领袖和活动家在20世纪80年代脱颖而出。他们是共产主义罗马尼亚少数有勇气反抗威胁罗姆人作为独立民族和文化群体生存的强制同化政策的勇敢人士。因此，他们对于在共产主义罗马尼亚遭受歧视待遇的罗姆人的立场，使他们在外国研究者以及同样关注受迫害罗姆人命运的罗姆人跨国组织中建立了紧密的合作关系。