Foreword

Racialized Slavery in Moldavia and Wallachia: Legacies and Silences

Authors

  • Margareta Matache Lecturer, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director of the Roma Program, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29098/crs.v9i1.239

Keywords:

Anti-Roma racism, Enslavement, Power, Racialisation, Systems of slavery

Abstract

Margareta Matache writes here on behalf of fellow members of the Thematic Issue editorial team: Maria Dumitru, Adrian-Nicolae Furtună, Delia Grigore, and Solvor Mjøberg Lauritzen.

Author Biography

  • Margareta Matache, Lecturer, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Director of the Roma Program, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard

    Margareta Matache, PhD, is a Harvard Lecturer, co-founder, and Director of the Roma Program at Harvard University. She also serves on the Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination, and Global Health. Matache is co-editor of Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective (2021) and Realizing Roma Rights (2017). Her latest book, The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences (Routledge, 2025), explores anti-Roma racism and its specific and universal underpinnings, manifestations, and links to other oppressions.

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Published

11/25/2025

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2026): Racialized Slavery in Moldavia and Wallachia: Legacies and Silences

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Foreword: Racialized Slavery in Moldavia and Wallachia: Legacies and Silences. (2025). Critical Romani Studies, 9(1), 4-9. https://doi.org/10.29098/crs.v9i1.239