ECONOMIC STRATEGIES AND MIGRATORY TRAJECTORIES OF VLAX ROMA FROM EASTERN SLOVAKIA TO LEICESTER, UK

• Authors: Hajská Markéta
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article is based on long term field research and focuses on a community of family-related Vlax Roma from Prešov, Sabinov and Košice regions who created a large community in Leicester, UK. The massive wave of labour migration to UK started in 2004, in the year of Slovakia’s accession to the European Union. The migration to Great Britain has been based on family networks and represents an example of chain migration based on the reciprocal help of family networks. Besides their own relatives other different non-related Roma intermediaries had an important influence on their arrival to Britain. The article focuses on the changing economic strategies of new migrants from the group in focus after their replacement to UK. In the years following Slovak accession to the EU, the prospective Romani migrants explored many illegal paths to arrive to Britain in their struggle for a better life. Approximately after a decade since their arrival, we can find this community as fully integrated into the local British working class, spending their time between my work and my house.

Keywords

EN

MIGRATION; ECONOMIC STRATEGIES; VLAX ROMA; BRITAIN; EU; EASTERN SLOVAKIA

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 65
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 357 - 382

Contributors

author

Hajská Markéta

• Department of Central European Studies– Seminar of Romani Studies (Charles University, Faculty of Arts), nám. Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

DOI

10.26363/SN.2017.4.01