On the social construction of "otherness" identifying "the Roma" in post-socialist communities

Kligman, Gail

doi:10.1556/revsoc.7.2001.2.4

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“…The dominant political view for quite a long time interpreted the growing degree of poverty as a necessary concomitant of economic restructuring, instead of understanding that it was the result of inherited structural problems (Szalai, 2002: 37). Scholars also have pointed out that attempts to link as inherently essentialist an ethnic categorization as 'Roma' to a social group are increasing in public discourses (Kligman, 2001;Kovács, 2002;Szalai, 2003). As Kligman has put it, the poverty has a Roma face in public discourse in Central-East Europe (2001: 64).…”

Section: Changing Discourse On Poverty and Social Entitlementsmentioning

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Ethnicizing poverty through social security provision in rural Hungary

Schwarcz

2012

Journal of Rural Studies

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Ethnicizing poverty through social security provision in rural Hungary

Schwarcz

2012

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…However, considering them anchored to both mental and social processes allows us to give them a concrete shape. This seems to be an implicit assumption, for instance, in work by Gail Kligman (2001) which empirically examines the variety and rootedness of representations of Roma in Romania. In order to scrutinize the 'work' and the consequences they have in terms of policies, I also draw on Bourdieu's (1991) insightful discussion of the ways in which identities become crystallized: struggles over ethnic or regional identity [which] are a particular case of the different struggles over classifications, struggles over the monopoly of the power to make people see and believe, to get them to know and recognize, to impose the legitimate definition of the divisions of the social world and thereby, to make and unmake groups.…”

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Welcome ‘in’. Left-wing Tuscany and Romani migrants (1987–2007)

Picker

2011

Journal of Modern Italian Studies

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Although the Italian left was one of the largest popular movements for social change in Western Europe, at the end of the 1980s the Tuscan left-wing regional council imposed the construction of fenced camps for Romani immigrants supposedly in order to give Roma the possibility of developing their own traditional habits. By contextualizing the local political context within the post-1989 changes of left-wing politics vis-à-vis migrants in Italy, the paper discusses the rationale behind the construction of nomad camps. It examines the texts of the first two regional laws addressing Roma -passed in 1988 and 1995. It then compares that analysis with the ethnographic data collected in 2007 and 2008. In the conclusion it is put forward that the conditions of material and symbolic segregation that have been affecting Roma in Florence for more than twenty years are a consequence of specific culture-based strategies adopted by policy makers.

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“…However, others perceive Roma as an ethnicity more than Roma themselves (Csepeli and Simon, 2004). In other words, the Roma ethnicity is formed by discrimination experiences and attributed stereotypes as least as much as by a particular appearance, language or ancestry (Kligman, 2001). Moreover, Roma are spread all over Europe forming small national minorities that self-identify with the various national groups or traditions (Marushiakova and Popov, 2007).…”

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National Identification Counteracts the Sedative Effect of Positive Intergroup Contact on Ethnic Activism

2017

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Positive intergroup contact with socially and economically advantaged national majorities has been shown to reduce ethnic identification among minorities, thereby undermining ethnic minority activism. This finding implies that ethnic identity is the relevant social identity driving ethnic minorities’ struggle for equality. We argue that the study of the “sedating” effect of positive intergroup contact for minorities should be more nuanced. The existence of multiple and sometimes interplaying social identities can foster a reinterpretation of the meaning of “ethnic” activism. This study therefore examines how the interplay of ethnic and national identities shapes the sedating effect of contact on minority activism. We expect national identification to buffer the sedated activism resulting from reduced ethnic identification. That is, the mediation from intergroup contact to reduced ethnic activism through weakened ethnic identification is expected to be moderated by national identification. With survey data from Bulgaria, we investigated support for ethnic activism among Bulgarian Roma (N = 320) as a function of their contact with the national majority as well as their degree of ethnic and national identification. The predicted moderated mediation was revealed: a negative indirect relationship between contact and activism through decreased ethnic identification occurred among Roma with low national identification, whereas no sedating effect occurred among Roma identifying strongly as members of the Bulgarian nation. We discuss the meaning of national identification for the Roma minority, who experience harsh discrimination in countries where they have been historically settled, as well as convergence of these findings with work on dual identification. We highlight the role of interacting social identities in mobilizing resources for activism and the importance of adopting a critical view on ethnic discourse when studying activism in both traditional and immigrant minorities.

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On the social construction of "otherness" identifying "the Roma" in post-socialist communities

Cited by 43 publications

References 4 publications

Ethnicizing poverty through social security provision in rural Hungary

Ethnicizing poverty through social security provision in rural Hungary

Welcome ‘in’. Left-wing Tuscany and Romani migrants (1987–2007)

National Identification Counteracts the Sedative Effect of Positive Intergroup Contact on Ethnic Activism

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