Intergroup contact and minority group empowerment: The perspective of Roma and non‐Roma adolescents in Macedonia

Kamberi, Ermira; Martinović, Borja; Verkuyten, Maykel

doi:10.1002/casp.2320

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“…However, we found no previous studies on what supports the omnipresence of antigypsyism in CEE health-systems. Our findings are, nevertheless, in line with those from other studies indicating the potential of positive inter-group contact in decreasing anti-Roma attitudes in the region (Kamberi et al 2017;Kende et al 2017a;Kende et al 2017b;Visintin et al 2017). Our findings also complement recent critiques of pro-equity efforts omitting antigypsyism (Albert et al 2016;EUC 2018a;EUFRA 2018a;EUFRA 2018b;McGarry 2017;Stewart 2012;Vermeersch et al 2017).…”

Section: Discussion Andrej Belaksupporting

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The health of segregated Roma: first-line views and practices: a case study in Slovakia using ethnographic methods

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Segregated Roma are also being oppressed through their self-exclusionary hopes and tastes. Chapter 3 of this thesis 2. Pushed and pulled towards the so-called margins, most segregated Roma become skilled at escaping the relative disadvantages of life standard in the so-called centers. Chapter 4 of this thesis 3. Many people who happen to serve segregated Roma feel that such position gradually forces them to choose between useless burnout and cynical neglect. Chapter 5 of this thesis 4. Trusting segregated Roma with more decision power and resources causes many of them to challenge the local structures that oppress them. Chapter 6 of this thesis 5. It would require a rather explicit selection process to make any risky genes concentrate in any Roma group-much more selective than Roma history could lead to. Chapter 7 of this thesis 6. Antigypsyism drives the poor health status of the Roma, mostly because most people involved, including segregated Roma, do not understand that it is so. Discussion of this thesis 7. We cannot claim to have formulated a convincing denial of the inequality of the human races, so long as we fail to consider the problem of the inequality-or diversity-of human cultures, which is in fact-however unjustifiably-closely associated with it in the public mind. Claude Levi-Strauss 8. We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. Charles Bukowski 9. We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight. John Lennon 10. We are lost, but other animals point to the right road. They are the right road.

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Section: Discussion Andrej Belaksupporting

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The health of segregated Roma: first-line views and practices: a case study in Slovakia using ethnographic methods

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“…The social consequences of such racialised othering and stereotyping impact education (Kertesi & Kézdi, ), employment (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, ), and health (Masseria, Mladovsky, & Hernández‐Quevedo, ). With regard to interaction, informal segregation is common (Ives, Alama, Oikonomidoy, & Obenchain, ) and in keeping with previous findings (Pettigrew & Tropp, ), when intergroup contact does take place the effects appear greater for the non‐Roma interaction partners than the Roma partners (Kamberi, Martinovic, & Verkuyten, ). Presumably, this is because Roma participants continue to be on their guard against displays of prejudice.…”

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Humour is serious: Minority group members’ use of humour in their encounters with majority group members

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Hopkins

2019

Euro J Social Psych

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This article adds to the social psychological literature on how minority group members seek to manage their interactions with majority group members. Specifically, it focuses on minority group members’ use of humour in interactions where they anticipate or actually experience prejudice. The data on which our analysis is based originate from interviews conducted with Roma in Hungary (N = 30). Asked about their interactions with majority group members, interviewees reported using humour as a means to (a) manage embarrassment; (b) gather information about the other's intergroup attitudes; and (c) subvert taken‐for‐granted understandings of social relations. The humour involved was diverse. Sometimes it entailed the telling of (Roma‐related) jokes. Sometimes it involved the exaggerated performance of roles and identities that ironised majority–minority social relations. The significance of humour as a tool for minority group members to exert some control over their interactions with majority group members is discussed.

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“…The relation between intergroup contact and support for social change is more nuanced than is typically recognized. For members of advantaged groups (e.g., ethnic majorities and cis-heterosexuals1), contact with disadvantaged-group members (e.g., ethnic and LGBTIQ+ individuals2) generally-but not invariably-leads to greater support for intergroup equality and social change (e.g., Çakal, Hewstone, Güler, & Heath, 2016;Dixon et al, 2007;Kamberi, Martinovic, & Verkuyten, 2017;Wright & Lubensky, 2009). Yet, some research suggests that contact can improve advantaged-group members' feelings toward disadvantaged-group members while having little impact on their support for policies designed to redress group-based inequalities (Jackman & Crane, 1986).…”

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A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change

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Guided by the early findings of social scientists, practitioners have long advocated for greater contact between groups to reduce prejudice and increase social cohesion. Recent work, however, suggests that intergroup contact can undermine support for social change towards greater equality, especially among disadvantaged group members. Using a large and heterogeneous dataset (12,997 individuals from 69 countries), we demonstrate that intergroup contact and support for social change towards greater equality are positively associated among members of advantaged groups (ethnic majorities and cis-heterosexuals) but negatively associated among disadvantaged groups (ethnic minorities and sexual and gender minorities). Specification curve analysis revealed important variation in the size-and at times, direction-of correlations, depending on how contact and support for social change were measured. This allowed us to identify one type of support for change-willingness to work in solidaritythat is positively associated with intergroup contact among both advantaged and disadvantaged group members.

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Intergroup contact and minority group empowerment: The perspective of Roma and non‐Roma adolescents in Macedonia

Cited by 21 publications

References 17 publications

The health of segregated Roma: first-line views and practices: a case study in Slovakia using ethnographic methods

The health of segregated Roma: first-line views and practices: a case study in Slovakia using ethnographic methods

Humour is serious: Minority group members’ use of humour in their encounters with majority group members

A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change

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