Chasing “Statistical Roma”: Ethnic Data Collection in Czech Primary Schools
Publisher: ECMI Volume: 19 pages, pdf Description: This article deals with the collection of ethnic statistics focused on the number of Roma pupils in various types of Czech elementary schools that has been undertaken since 2009. Since then, this collection has grown into a large annual monitoring process that is conducted in every elementary school in the country. Simultaneously, this development is attracting growing attention from opponents of such ethnic monitoring. The most provocative element is the method of the counting, which employs for the first time in the Czech democratic era attribution of ethnicity from the outside instead of the usual method of self-identification.