Slovak Roma Segregation
Walls, schools, and municipal exclusion after 1989
Post-communist Slovakia kept Roma communities behind walls, in underserved settlements, and in separate school tracks. EU funds and infringement threats have not ended the architecture of everyday exclusion.
Damage
Slovak municipalities and schools sustain segregated Roma settlements and education.
Record Points
- Municipal walls and utility cutoffs recur as anti-Roma governance tools.
- Special-school channeling produces educational segregation ruled discriminatory in European cases.
- Police raids and forced evictions mark periodic crackdowns.
- This is modern democratic-era practice.
- Bratislava's EU membership did not dissolve settlement apartheid.
Perpetrator(s)
Victims
Roma