IMPORTANCE OF EMPLOYMENT IN ROMA SOCIAL INTEGRATION: LOOKING BACK AT THE EARLY YEARS OF THE DECADE OF ROMA INCLUSION

• Authors: Guy Will
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article critically compares Roma experience of the key role of employment in the period of Communism with that during the following two decades. It draws on my experience as an ethnological researcher from 1969 onwards and also later as an investigator evaluating Roma inclusion programmes for the European Commission in countries seeking membership of the European Union. It comes to the depressing conclusion that the majority of Roma remain largely excluded from mainstream society in spite of their own considerable efforts to improve their economic and social standing, as well as various initiatives of the European Union and NGOs. This situation poses a threat not only to Roma themselves but to the stability of the countries in which they live.

Keywords

EN

ROMA; INCLUSION; EXCLUSION; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPEAN UNION

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 311 – 323

Contributors

author

Guy Will

• Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, 11 Priory Road, Bristol, BS8 1TU, UK

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.2478/se-2020-0018