Net span of holes. Inter-household supporting network among Roma and non-Roma poor

• Authors: Messing Vera
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The study analyses inter-household supporting networks among impoverished Roma and non-Roma households. The author concentrates on one dimension of relationships: what material and non-material relationships support the subsistence of poor households. Due to the datasets in reach-characteristics of supporting relationships of the total population, the circumstances of similarly impoverished Roma and non-Roma people may be compared. The most remarkable result of the research is that non-Roma poor households are significantly richer in their supporting network than Roma ones. Moreover, the characteristics of supporting inter-household networks of the Roma depend largely on their regional location as well as on ethnic identity, history and the traditions of inter-ethnic relations of the given region. As a conclusion the author formulates further research questions, the analyses of which may lead closer to the understanding of the diversity and different subsistence strategies of the population categorized as Roma.

Keywords

EN

ETHNIC GROUPS; INTER-HOUSEHOLD SUPPORTING NETWORKS; POVERTY; ROMA PEOPLE; SUBSISTENCE STRATEGIES

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Hungarian Sociological Association
• Journal: Szociologiai Szemle (Sociological Review)
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 37-56
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Messing Vera

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11HUAAAA092018