Ethnic minority identity and movement politics: The case of the Roma in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Vermeersch, Peter

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“…Second, further research is needed to explore what kind of symbolic connections exist between acculturation, assimilation and mobility among the Roma. Széleny and Ládanyi (2006) and Vermeersch (2003Vermeersch ( , 2006 have clearly explained what happens in the lower class, but little work has been done to explain what happens in the middle class (Tó th 2005;Sordé 2006;PrietoFlores 2009). Future research should examine how important these different paths of assimilation are among Roma and what types of social determinants contribute to them.…”

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“…At the same time, however, scholars such as Gay y Blasco (1999), Crea (2001Á4), Vermeersch (2003Vermeersch ( , 2006, Sánchez-Aroca (2005) and Ladányi and Szelényi (2006) have indicated that Roma identity does not depend on social exclusion or marginality, even though a large number of Roma people face social exclusion.…”

Section: Roma Identity Acculturation and Mobilitymentioning

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Does the canonical theory of assimilation explain the Roma case? Some evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

Prieto-Flores¹

2009

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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This article focuses on the relation between mobility and assimilation among the Roma. Quantitative results from UNDP research in four Central and Eastern Europe countries provide new data and show the need for a new conceptualization of the evidence. These results demonstrate that there are no significant data to confirm the existence of a straight-line process of assimilation in the Roma case. Thus, they question the canonical theory of assimilation by demonstrating that middle-class Roma tend not to leave their identity behind. I propose the need for a segmented theory of the different upward mobility paths that Roma people tend to follow. In a complementary way, the observed results also point out the need to take into account some variations in Roma ethnic identity depending on the source of ethnic data, how they are collected and the implications for research in the different national contexts explored

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Section: Roma Identity Acculturation and Mobilitymentioning

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Does the canonical theory of assimilation explain the Roma case? Some evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

Prieto-Flores¹

2009

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…This latter finding is interesting and needs further investigation. A possible explanation is that the term 'Roma' often serves as a generic name for quite a heterogeneous conglomerate of ethnic subgroups (Vermeersch 2003). This is especially likely in our study as it includes multiple Roma groups from 12 different countries.…”

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Life Satisfaction and Happiness Among the Roma in Central and Southeastern Europe

2014

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This study examines general life satisfaction and happiness as two indicators of subjective well-being among Roma and non-Roma populations in Central and Southeastern Europe. Using a sample of 11,997 participants (Roma N = 8,399, non-Roma N = 3,598) from the Regional Roma Survey in 2011 we test a structural equation model which considers self-rated health, income, education, quality of housing, perceived (ethnic) discrimination, and ethnic group identification as mediators of the relationship between Roma/non-Roma group membership and subjective well-being. Well-being was found to be lower among Roma compared to non-Roma and this was fully due to Roma's lower health status, lower income, lower education, lower quality of housing, lower ethnic identification, and higher perceived discrimination. The findings confirm that Roma have fewer resources for the attainment of need-gratification which negatively affects their happiness and life satisfaction, thereby, refuting the romanticized image of the Roma as 'poor but happy people'.

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“…Group definitions and boundaries are the products not only of state actions, but of collective movements by both majorities and minorities. Examples of this include comparisons of the construction of the Roma identity in the Czech and Slovak Republics (Vermeersch 2010), the formation of Chicano and Mexican American identities (Marquez 2001;Muñoz 1989) and the reconstruction of White nationalism as a minority identity (Berbrier 2002). "Ethnic conflict" research is focused on identifying the factors that predict when protest or violence will occur along ethnic lines (Brubaker and Laitin 1998;Hechter and Okamoto 2001;Olzak 1985;Olzak 2004;Williams 1994).…”

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The Ethnic Dimensions in Social Movements*

Oliver¹

2017

Mobilization: An International Quarterly

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This paper draws on work in the social construction of race and ethnicity to explain why race/ethnic divisions are so often axes of domination and why these divisions are central to social movements. Ethnic/racial groups are constructed in political processes that are intertwined with state formation and social movements. Processes of state formation create ethnic/racial groups, and define majorities and minorities, and create racial/ethnic structures of domination. Physical and social segregation in tandem with intergenerational inheritance creates network cliquing that reinforces group boundaries, group differences, and group interests. Movements by members of dominant racial/ethnic majorities differ from movements by members of subordinate racial/ethnic minorities in key ways including access to democratic processes for achieving group goals, experience of repression, need for allies, identity construction, processes of consciousness raising, and bases of mobilization. The "ethnic dimensions" matter for all social movements.

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Ethnic minority identity and movement politics: The case of the Roma in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Cited by 56 publications

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Does the canonical theory of assimilation explain the Roma case? Some evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

Does the canonical theory of assimilation explain the Roma case? Some evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

Life Satisfaction and Happiness Among the Roma in Central and Southeastern Europe

The Ethnic Dimensions in Social Movements*

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