Sterilization policy and Gypsies in Finland.
This article examines Finnish eugenic sterilization policy from 1935 to 1970 and how the nation dealt with the largest minority group in the land, the Gypsies.1 When the sterilization law was first created (1935) and amended (1950), it was largely thought to be a law that applied equally to everyone...
| Publicado en: | Romani Studies Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 109 - 140 |
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