Roma Nation? Competing Narratives of Nationhood

Liebich, André

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“…It is generally believed that the Roma dispersed from their homeland in India between the 5th and 15th centuries (Liebich, 2007). There is no clear and precise information in the literature on why the Roma left their homeland in India (Kenrick, 2006).…”

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Examination of Romany Primary School Students’ Sense of School Belonging

Gürhan,

Çiftçi

2023

Int. J. of Cont. Edu. Res.

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Examining the sense of belonging among Roma elementary school pupils is the goal of this study. 121 fourth-grade Roma kids and 44 parents made up the study's participants. One of the mixed method designs, the convergent mixed design, was chosen for the investigation. Quantitative and qualitative data are gathered concurrently in this design. Analyses and descriptions of quantitative data come first, followed by analyses and interpretations of qualitative data. Selçuk and Güner's (1999) Sense of Belonging Scale was applied to Roma students in the study's quantitative component. One of the qualitative research designs, the case study design, was applied in the qualitative section. 10 open-ended questions developed by consulting experts were posed to parents of Roma as part of the qualitative dimension. Along with the quantitative results, the responses from the parents were analyzed and appraised. The study's findings support the notion that Roma primary school kids have a strong sense of school belonging. Additionally, it was discovered that female students had a considerably higher degree of school belonging than male students.

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Section: General Information On Romamentioning

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Examination of Romany Primary School Students’ Sense of School Belonging

Gürhan,

Çiftçi

2023

Int. J. of Cont. Edu. Res.

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“…These representations have their roots in the late nineteenth century, became stronger after the internationalization of Romani organizations in the 1960s, and reached the First World Romani Congress by 1971. These nationalist representations are separated into two main topics and pointed out by Liebich (2007) as "native" and "dative. " While the first stressed the common origin of all Gypsies/Roma in today's India, the latter stresses the social-political conditions of those seen or self-ascribed as Gypsies/Roma.…”

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“…Roma characterized as a nation might be one way to fight against prejudice and exclusion, but it might also be a prolific space for the sprouting of vanguard groups, who are usually disconnected from those who might be in need, and may well lead to a vicious circle of social handouts which generally do not achieve any measurable impacts among communities. According to Liebich (2007), narratives which tend to enforce Romani identity can be both the basis for exoticizing and othering the Gypsies/Roma or the legitimization of the Romani struggle, together with the empowerment of Romani activists, but are unlikely to help to address the Roma problem in Central and Eastern Europe. Liebich's understanding from 2007 seems to materialize in 2015, with the end of The Decade of Roma Inclusion -sponsored mostly by Western organizations like the ones discussed in this article -which did not emphatically decrease the social, political, and economic distance between Gypsy/Romani and non-Gypsy/non-Romani populations in Central and Eastern Europe (Kovats and Surdu 2015;Brüggemann and Friedman 2017).…”

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Western Donors, Romani Organizations, and Uses of the Concept of Nation after 1989

Sambati

2020

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This article discusses the relationship between Western donors and Romani and Romani-friendly organizations in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989. Based on literature review, interviews, reports, and websites, this paper upholds that the burst of Romani and Romani-friendly organizations in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 primarily was made possible by financial support and expertise coming from Western organizations. Together with their work methodology, so-called donors took their own framework on understanding groupings and enforced the concept of nation upon Gypsy/Romani populations. Therefore, Western donors and Romani activists and intellectuals alike essentialized (claimed) Gypsy/Romani traits in order to support a nation-building rhetoric. These Romani activists and intellectuals, in turn, are a legacy of policies from planned economies, and they actually might represent Gypsy/Romani communities from a privileged perspective – no longer fully insiders but as a vanguard.

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Fieldwork Emotions: Embedded Across Cultures, Shared, Repressed, or Subconscious

Okely

2019

Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences

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Roma Nation? Competing Narratives of Nationhood

Cited by 10 publications

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Examination of Romany Primary School Students’ Sense of School Belonging

Examination of Romany Primary School Students’ Sense of School Belonging

Western Donors, Romani Organizations, and Uses of the Concept of Nation after 1989

Fieldwork Emotions: Embedded Across Cultures, Shared, Repressed, or Subconscious

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