Biased Elites, Unfit Policies: Reflections on the Lacunae of Roma Integration Strategies

Matache, Margareta

doi:10.1017/s1062798717000254

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“…While all member countries of the EU are required to provide health insurance coverage for their citizens, there have been systematic obstacles to health insurance registration for mobile EU citizens, including Romani people. 34 Examining the man's mouth, the evaluating physician said, 'Nice to meet you. What are you doing here in Berlin?'…”

Section: Case 3 Mr G: Anti-roma Racism and Dental Painmentioning

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Deservingness: migration and health in social context

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This article brings the social science concept of ‘deservingness’ to bear on clinical cases of transnational migrant patients. Based on the authors’ medical social science research, health delivery practice and clinical work from multiple locations in Africa. Europe and the Americas, the article describes three clinical cases in which assumptions of deservingness have significant implications for the morbidity and mortality of migrant patients. The concept of deservingness allows us to maintain a critical awareness of the often unspoken presumptions of which categories of patients are more or less deserving of access to and quality of care, regardless of their formal legal eligibility. Many transnational migrants with ambiguous legal status who rely on public healthcare experience exclusion from care or poor treatment based on notions of deservingness held by health clinic staff, clinicians and health system planners. The article proposes several implications for clinicians, health professional education, policymaking and advocacy. A critical lens on deservingness can help global health professionals, systems and policymakers confront and change entrenched patterns of unequal access to and differential quality of care for migrant patients. In this way, health professionals can work more effectively for global health equity.

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Section: Case 3 Mr G: Anti-roma Racism and Dental Painmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deservingness: migration and health in social context

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“…It is proven that these interventions do not coincide with the educational politics in reference to the young Roma participation in universities [16]. According to Matache [49], there have been few actions and there has been little funding to guarantee young Roma access to universities. The data contributed by Brüggemann [50] agree that in the countries with high Roma population, 90% of the young Roma are excluded from secondary education and close to 99% from universities.…”

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Intercultural Education for Sustainability in the Educational Interventions Targeting the Roma Student: A Systematic Review

2019

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The ethnic and cultural diversity of today’s society demands an intercultural education that promotes equal opportunities and the inclusion of minority groups at risk of social exclusion. Various policies and governmental strategies are directed at favoring social inclusion and reducing situations of discrimination and exclusion. One of said ethnic minorities is the Roma community. This article talks about measures for reversing the high rates of absenteeism, dropout, and school failure. The aim of this systematic review in the educational context is to analyze programs and interventions that have been made to promote the educational inclusion of Roma students. Three databases were used—Scopus, Web of Science, and Eric—to examine 419 articles. After a selection, based on an inclusion criterion, which follows the guidelines given by the Declaration of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyzes (PRISMA), 17 articles were chosen for the analysis. The main findings shed light on data for programs and interventions developed mostly within the school setting and for students of elementary and secondary education, however, there are also interventions that are developed in the community and extracurricular context. The works are centralized in valuing the cultural diversity of the Roma people with the Roma students but not just exclusive to them. Highlighted is the implementation of teacher assistants and/or intercultural mediators from the Roma community to be role models or references for the students, and family education participation is considered common practice. Such characteristics in educational interventions contribute to an inclusive education in an intercultural and sustainable manner.

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“…Also, there is little concern for a critical assessment of the power positions that both the 'community' and the staff inhabit in relation to each other. Importantly, rather than tackling structural problems of inequality and racism, the rationale of community development places the onus for social change on the subaltern communities themselves, implicitly strengthening the neoliberal narrative of self-help, as well as the idea that the subaltern are somehow responsible for their own predicament through what is perceived, in essentializing and racializing ways, as 'lack of agency' (see also Matache, 2017). By taking communities to be disempowered and ignorant, this approach not only ignores forms of local knowledge on power relations between the community and the more powerful groups at local level, but also power differentials within the 'community' itself.…”

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‘We’ll Help Ourselves, but What’s in It for Us?’ Conflict, Development and Social Mobility among Roma in Romania

Ivasiuc

2020

Slovenský Národopis / Slovak Ethnology

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Roma-related development and policy discourse often represents the Roma development ‘subjects’ as disempowered victims. Against the pervasiveness of such narratives, a close look at the local level conflicts arising during the implementation of a World Bank development project in destitute Roma communities from Romania lays bare the strategies of unassisted social mobility in which a group of Roma engage. Not large or well-defined enough to be constituted into a real ‘class’ in sociological terms, this strategic group is made up of Roma civil servants (mediators, local experts, Romani language teachers) who negotiate their engagement in development projects on their own terms and use the material and immaterial resources that projects offer to enact their own upward social mobility. Often, though, this comes at the cost of a growing socio-economic gap between themselves and the most destitute parts of Roma communities, which complicates their involvement in development projects. The article underlines the necessity of taking into account both the strategies of unassisted social mobility of Roma development brokers, and the internal power imbalances that the development apparatus inevitably ends up producing in Roma communities.

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Biased Elites, Unfit Policies: Reflections on the Lacunae of Roma Integration Strategies

Cited by 54 publications

References 11 publications

Deservingness: migration and health in social context

Deservingness: migration and health in social context

Intercultural Education for Sustainability in the Educational Interventions Targeting the Roma Student: A Systematic Review

‘We’ll Help Ourselves, but What’s in It for Us?’ Conflict, Development and Social Mobility among Roma in Romania

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