Gypsy/Roma diasporas. A comparative perspective*

Blasco, Paloma Gay y

doi:10.1111/j.1469-8676.2002.tb00053.x

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“…The conversions among the Spanish Gypsies suppose processes of ethnogenesis (Cantón-Delgado et al, 2004, 2020). Congregational dynamics allow the extension of ties between Gitanos, who before the conversions limited their sociability within the group of relatives (Gay y Blasco, 2002: 178), which allows us to characterize the social landscape of the minority in Spain as fragmentary (Gay y Blasco, 1999: 40–41; San Román, 1997: 210). However, family relationships continue to be of great importance for converts, something that is fundamental in my argument, as I will show later.…”

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“…The conversions have given a new meaning to the moral superiority that Gypsies claim over payos , or non-Gypsies (Gay y Blasco, 2002). The ECP motivates a discourse that comes to point out the Gitanos as e l pueblo elegido de Dios (God’s chosen people), although this is not the basis of permanent or continuous subjectivation processes.…”

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In/dividuality and charisma among Pentecostal Gypsies

Jiménez-Royo

2023

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This text reflects on the constitution of the Gypsy Pentecostal person, thus inserting itself in the debates on the continuity or rupture that motivate conversions to Christianity. The moral obligations generated by kinship relations among the Gypsies and the links with the Holy Spirit make it difficult to find gaps for the deployment of individuality by evangelical Gypsies. However, the materialization of God’s desire is embedded in the dynamics of leadership, which in the context of the religious organization causes the charisma to avoid its routinization.

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In/dividuality and charisma among Pentecostal Gypsies

Jiménez-Royo

2023

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“…The literature has recorded that discriminatory practices include ethnic “lumping,” collapsing, and confusing Roma communities to be “Black” or other others (Blasco, 2002; Lemon, 2002). Non-Gypsies easily “become Gypsies”—simply by wearing a “Gypsy” costume, which includes a crystal ball (see Bullock et al, 1970; Elliotte, Finn, & Barton, 1962; I Love Lucy , 1954; Weiner, Noxon, Humphris, Gordon, & Getzinger, 2009), scarves, and trinkets ( The Wild Wild West , 1969).…”

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“Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves”: Examining Representations of Roma Culture in 70 Years of American Television

Schneeweis

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2017

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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Most Americans know little about the “Gypsies,” or Roma, other than what they learn in the media. Although research shows that media have perpetuated stereotypes, there is thin anthological attention to the representation of Gypsies in American media. This study examines portrayals of Gypsies in fictional and reality television programs 1953-2014, and reveals that American television has reinforced stereotypes, suggesting that Gypsies are consistently different, a closed ethnic community resistant to change. More recent representations convey that Gypsies may be misunderstood due to their cultural history, yet this considerably less visible depiction emerges as a mere nod toward tolerance.

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“…It is no longer news that the largest ethnic minority in the European Union—the Roma, commonly known as the Gypsies—is discriminated against in institutional contexts and private interactions. National and international groups have recognized the “Gypsy problem” and have implemented reforms and policies to address anti‐Gypsyism (Blasco, ; Nacu, ; Ram, ; Schneeweis, ). A transnational movement for Roma rights has also emerged to document and prove discrimination.…”

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Communicating the Victim: Nongovernmental Organizations Advocacy Discourses for Roma Rights

Schneeweis

2014

Communication, Culture & Critique

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This article is a study of advocacy communication about the Roma (Gypsies) in contemporary Europe. A movement for Roma rights has emerged and solidified since the 1990s, marked by the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, rising neo‐fascist anti‐Roma discrimination, European Union enlargement, immigration policies, and moral panics. Based on in‐depth longitudinal and historical analyses, this study explains the discourse of victimization as constructed in nongovernmental organizations' (NGOs) communication materials. I suggest here that a vehement position against anti‐Roma discrimination is rather self‐explanatory in post‐World War II and post‐Communist Europe; but I also critique the role that NGO communication plays within structures that maintain an anti‐Roma system in place—by overly victimizing the Roma peoples.

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Gypsy/Roma diasporas. A comparative perspective*

Cited by 37 publications

References 5 publications

In/dividuality and charisma among Pentecostal Gypsies

In/dividuality and charisma among Pentecostal Gypsies

“Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves”: Examining Representations of Roma Culture in 70 Years of American Television

Communicating the Victim: Nongovernmental Organizations Advocacy Discourses for Roma Rights

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