What is it about?
This paper investigates the social construction of Roma as ‘other’ in a multicultural landscape (the Romania-Serbia border). As the issue of otherness in the social construction of ethnicities and rural multiculturalism is important, we are interested to know how the rural Roma people are othered and how they respond to different forms of vilification
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Why is it important?
It is important because it addresses and seeks to respond to three questions: (i) Is the Roma population in this area completely spatially segregated? (ii) How do different kinds of prejudice against Roma operate within this multicultural context? (iii) How does discrimination against the Roma interface with power relations, in particular political power in the area?
Perspectives
The findings indicate that Roma face prejudice from apparently more ‘progressive’ groups, who accept multiculturalism, yet blame the Roma for their own disadvantaged social and economic position on the grounds of a failure to integrate that is pictured as ‘backward’.
Dr Remus Cretan
west university of Timisoara
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This page is a summary of: Articulating ‘otherness’ within multiethnic rural neighbourhoods: encounters between Roma and non-Roma in an East-Central European borderland, Identities, May 2021, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/1070289x.2021.1920774.
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