The Gypsies as indigenous groups: The Gabori Roma case in Romania

Olivera, Martín

doi:10.3828/rs.2012.2

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“…The area is also home to the Gabor, a Romani group that is said to have consolidated itself over the past century (cf. Jacobs 2012, Olivera 2012. Typical features include the loss of final -s in the 2SG present person marker and the loss of -s -in pre-consonantal position as in lehke 'for him', adjectival inflection on demonstratives, widespread simplification of -into -i-as loan verb marker, and the emergence of či as negation marker.…”

Section: Geographical Diffusion Zonesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Mapping the Romani dialects of Romania

Matras

2013

Romani Studies

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This is the first attempt to map specifically the Romani dialects of Romania -the country with the largest Romani-speaking population. The data under consideration derives from fieldwork carried out over the past decade as part of the dialectological documentation of the Manchester Romani Project, based on the Romani Dialectological Questionnaire, first drafted in 2001. Most of the data has been made accessible online via the Romani Morpho-Syntax Database. The analysis focuses on key features that have been cited in the past as distinctive of internal (rather than contact-induced) historical developments in the individual dialects of Romani. The results show that Romania constitutes, on the one hand, a zone of ongoing structural innovations that is prone to random diversity for some forms. On the other hand, in respect of some developments, distinct geographical diffusion zones can be identified. These tend to mirror topographical and historical political boundaries. These patterns provide further evidence that Romani dialects are best viewed as a geographical continuum that mirrors historical contacts between Romani populations in situ at the time in which structural change took place. Thus, they call into question the notion of 'genetic' divisions among dialect groups and their speaker populations.

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Section: Geographical Diffusion Zonesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Mapping the Romani dialects of Romania

Matras

2013

Romani Studies

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“…These stereotypes preserve the image of Roma and Traveler groups as “exotic others” who despite their indigenous character (Olivera ) remain resistant to “inclusion” and “integration” thus destabilizing the image of the modern European state as a model of tolerance, prosperity, and openness. The struggle of European states with their Roma and Traveler minorities, although often coupled with similar struggles with immigration and the integration of other minorities, remains unique in the sense that both discourses of nationalism and discourses of cosmopolitanism fail to agree on the community's “rightful” place, effectively suggesting that there is no “rightful” space they can inhabit either at “home” or “abroad.” Instead, they often resort to the stereotype of nomadism, as reinforced by historical Roma representations and a deeply biased legal framework (Sandland ), as a way of effectively denying many of these communities the right to settle anywhere.…”

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confidence: 99%

Representing Romani Gypsies and Travelers: Performing Identity from Early Photography to Reality Television

Pusca

2013

Int Stud Perspect

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Images of Romani Gypsies and Travelers abound in popular culture and the press, feeding into a series of stereotypes that appear to have survived largely unchanged for well over 200 years. With Romani and Traveler communities increasingly at the center of important debates on the treatment of migrants and ethnic minorities in Europe, these representations offer important insights into when and why Roma communities are sometimes conveniently visible or invisible, and how national and EU actors use their (in)visibility to make particular claims about solutions to discrimination. This article argues that although Roma and Traveler representations continue to follow traditional stereotypes, there is a noticeable change in their nature and the role that they play in both Roma and non‐Roma communities. By juxtaposing iconic photographic representations of Gypsies by Josef Koudelka in 1960s Czechoslovakia and the rise of new reality TV series such as My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and American Gypsies, this article aims to show the nature of change in Romani and Traveler representations and how they perform their collective identities.

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“…The Roma population is the largest transnational ethnic minority in Europe, characterized by linguistic [ 1 , 2 , 3 ], cultural [ 4 , 5 ] and historical heterogeneity [ 6 , 7 , 8 ]. Roma are thus not a single, homogeneous group of people [ 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 ]. Many aspects of Roma culture have changed over the centuries, but some of them are still the same [ 14 ].…”

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Social Structure in a Roma Settlement: Comparison over Time

Kozubík

Bobakova

Rosinský

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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The objective of the present study was to compare the social structure and internal establishment of a Roma community in two historical periods: in the 18th century and the present. We analysed Samuel Augustini ab Hortis’s work, “Von dem Heutigen Zustände, Sonderbaren Sitten und Lebensart, Wie Auch von Denen Übrigen Eigenschaften und Umständen der Zigeuner in Ungarn” (On the Contemporary Situation, Distinctive Manners and Way of Life, as Well as the Other Characteristics and Circumstances of Gypsies in Greater Hungary), written in 1775–1776. Using content analysis, we subsequently compared his findings with our recent data from analogous qualitative research in a geographically-defined area of north-eastern Slovakia, the same region in which Augustini lived. Data collection was intensely conducted in 2012–2013 and once more in 2017–2019. The qualitative methods included direct observation, semi-structured interviews and focus groups. Four key informants and more than 70 participants collaborated in the study. The greatest difference we observed compared to the 18th century was the absence of a leader of the community, a “vajda”, whose status was taken over by a new social class of “entrepreneurs”. The most vulnerable group of the segregated and separated Roma communities are the “degesa”, the lowest social class. They face a phenomenon consisting of so-called triple marginalization: they live in one of the most underdeveloped regions of the country, they inhabit segregated settlements and they are excluded by their own ethnic group. The socioeconomic status of the richest classes has changed faces, while the socioeconomic status of the lowest has not. We found a misconception among helping professionals (e.g., social workers) regarding the homogeneity of the Roma community. This calls for more attention to the erroneous use of the ethnic-based approach in the helping professions.

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The Gypsies as indigenous groups: The Gabori Roma case in Romania

Cited by 11 publications

References 1 publication

Mapping the Romani dialects of Romania

Mapping the Romani dialects of Romania

Representing Romani Gypsies and Travelers: Performing Identity from Early Photography to Reality Television

Social Structure in a Roma Settlement: Comparison over Time

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