Scripts in Rural Élites’ Attitude as Narrative Barriers in the Hungarian–Roma Interethnic Relations in Szeklerland (Romania)

Abstract Relying on an interview-based research conducted in Romania’s Szeklerland area, settlements with a significant Roma population where the majority of inhabitants are Hungarian ethnicity, present study investigates non-Roma rural élites’ attitude towards local population. The regional relevance topic is indicated by fact that importance population’s social integration publicity, while at same time three decades following 1989 socio-political turn Romania witnessed only few attempts planning and launching programmes aimed integration. In course past decades, institutions élites have repeatedly shuffled off professional thematization practical addressing this issue, whereas principle they emphasized This aims to explore some components making up background above-outlined ambivalent attitude. With script analysis method, we intend look into what scripts elite actors adopt building narratives Hungarian–Roma role narrative creation has case élite belonging ethnic majority.