Roma, Marginalization, Globalization and Conflicts Over Water: The Case of Slovenia

“This Is Not Your Santa”: Roma Children Visualize Christmas

“…Unequivocally, Roma parents (primarily women) take their children home immediately after the end of classes, resulting in almost 90 percent of Roma children missing special and voluntary educational activities offered by the school. One reason for this has to do with the ubiquitous racism and anti-Roma attitudes widespread not only in segregated schools in Hungary as elsewhere in Europe but on the streets, in the labor market and social services, and in the media (Doytcheva, 2016;Janko Spreizer, 2020;Rorke, 2021). Unfortunately, this action not only hinders children's educational advancement and opportunity to learn special skills but also further aggravates strained majority-minority relations while, at the same time, reinforcing greater ghettoization.…”