Multicultural Citizenship and Roma Women in Croatia

The paper attempts to rethink the feminist critique of multicultural citizenship on example of Romani women in Croatia. The paper starts with an article that describes the court case of the Romani woman from Rijeka. It outlines the possible questions that could help thinking about the theoretical frameworks for understanding this case. The paper examines concept of multicultural citizenship as it was developed by Will Kymlicka, and then elaborates three main arguments of the feminist critique of multicultural citizenship. These are argument on patriarchy of cultures, argument on essentialism, and the argument that is based on the private and public distinction of society. It questions applicability of the feminist critique of multicultural citizenship on example of Romani women from Croatia. Finally, paper introduces the notion of the “false multiculturalism” and on three examples reveals its dangers for Romani women in Croatia