Discrimination against Roma: Evidence from two survey experiments in Norway

Falck, Runa

doi:10.1093/migration/mnaa026

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“…Cherishing informal education keeps the Roma within the safe boundaries of the community, away from the 10. 3389/feduc.2023.1225113 Frontiers in Education 07 frontiersin.org discrimination of the majority, which is still found at high levels, even in developed countries, despite the implementation of non-discriminatory policies (Falck, 2021).…”

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Formal education vs. informal education in the Roma community—a silent confrontation where nobody wins

Herțanu,

Soponaru,

Păduraru

2023

Front. Educ.

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ObjectivesOur main aim was to identify the advantages and disadvantages that the Roma relate to formal education vs. informal education, a discrepancy in the balance between the two can enrich the explanations regarding their low level of schooling—which hinders their social inclusion.MethodThere were 28 participants of Roma ethnicity, aged between 19 and 52 years old, who took part in the study: 15 were married, 13 were single, all of them school graduates. The design of the study is a qualitative one and the data was collected by means of three focus groups, based on a semi-structured interview. The data was analysed by using the method of content analysis.ResultsIn addition to the disadvantages related to institutional and economic factors, the Roma encounter in schools that belong to the cultural majority difficulties related to language and a lack of elements belonging to their culture. While they get used to the culture of the majority, they feel that they lose their own identity and that they are silently excluded from their community.ConclusionFormal education is seen as a way of personal development and as a path to an advantageous job, a door of access to the majority culture. However, informal education seems to win all the time, as a result of the family sovereignty and the fact that it is the central factor in the transmission and preservation of the Roma culture.

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Formal education vs. informal education in the Roma community—a silent confrontation where nobody wins

Herțanu,

Soponaru,

Păduraru

2023

Front. Educ.

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“…Beyond the aforementioned landlessness of the Roma (Okely 1983, Stewart 2013, two interrelated dimensions are crucial to explain this fact. On the one hand, the social and economic exclusion they have historically suffered nearly everywhere (Falck 2020, Magazzini et al 2019, Martín et al 2019, which has even led to consider poverty and marginality as constitutive bases of the Roma as a group (Okely 1983, but see Marushiakova & Popov 2017). The second dimension has to do with the specific cultural mechanics of Roma communities, hinging upon the ample (although fluid and dynamic) divide between the Roma and non-Roma social universes, which is manifested in endogamous practices that even attend to ethnic subdivisions (Beluschi-Fabeni 2013, Gamella 2018, Gamella et al 2017.…”

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The network expression of a Roma diaspora

Ogáyar,

Muntean,

Gamella

et al. 2023

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Although ethnographers and policy-makers have long discussed the socialization patterns of the Roma—the largest and most marginalized native ethnocultural minority in Europe—, quantitative analysis is scarce. Partially, this is due to the group’s unique combination of social closure and spatial dispersion associated to the recent massive migration waves of the Roma from Central Europe. Here, we implement a novel methodology that draws on Roma’s migration networks and ethnicity- and kin-centered social norms, which enforce a permanent contact with their close ones, often using online social media like Facebook. We combine snowball sampling and a questionnaire about four “top friends”, as ranked by the Facebook algorithm, to elicit a sociocentric network of a comparatively large group of self-identified Romanian Roma (n = 752, 96% living outside Romania). We show that the elicited network considerably resembles the social structure of the target population in terms of kinship, subethnic group membership, gender roles, and other characteristics. The detected patterns provide a quantitative evaluation of the qualitative ethnographic research on the Roma and open new avenues for research on this and other hard-to-reach populations.

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The Fears and Hopes of Ukrainian Migrant Workers in Poland in the Pandemic Era

Shelest-Szumilas

Woźniak

2023

Int. Migration & Integration

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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many immigrants found themselves in extremely unstable situations. The recent contributions show that employment decline in the first several months of the lockdown was higher for migrant workers than for natives. At the same time, migrants were less likely to find new employment in the recovery months. Such circumstances may result in an increased level of anxiety about one’s economic situation. On the other hand, an unfavorable environment may induce resources that could help to overcome it. The paper aims to reveal migrants’ concerns together with ambitions connected with the economic activity during the pandemic. The study is based on 30 individual in-depth interviews with Ukrainian migrant workers from Poland. The research approach was based on Natural Language Processing techniques. We employed sentiment analysis algorithms, and on a basis of selected lexicons, we extracted fears and hopes that appear in migrants’ narrations. We also identified major topics and associated them with specific sentiments. Pandemic induced several matters connected with e.g., the stability of employment, discrimination, relationships, family, and financial situation. These affairs are usually connected on the basis of a cause-and-effect relationship. In addition, while several topics were common for both male and female participants, some of them were specific for each group.

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Discrimination against Roma: Evidence from two survey experiments in Norway

Cited by 8 publications

References 28 publications

Formal education vs. informal education in the Roma community—a silent confrontation where nobody wins

Formal education vs. informal education in the Roma community—a silent confrontation where nobody wins

The network expression of a Roma diaspora

The Fears and Hopes of Ukrainian Migrant Workers in Poland in the Pandemic Era

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