CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Fejős, Anna |
|---|---|
| Title | "What is 'Gypsy-like'?" Identity Negotiation Among Young Highly Educated Roma Women |
| Summary | Highly achieving members of the Roma community usually receive limited attention in Hungarian researches, furthermore, studies rarely involve gender as an influential factor on its own and in its intersection with other factors. To enrich research in the field, in this thesis I concentrate on the youngest generation of Roma intellectuals and provide an analysis of 20 semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted with highly educated women self-identified as Roma. The main purpose of the study is to focus on ethnic identity formation by setting two situational contexts; the choice of profession and the choice of a partner. Building on constructivist and post-structuralist approaches to identity, the major finding of the research is that young Roma women negotiate their personal identities, in terms of professional and partner choice, in a way that they take into account their belonging to the Roma community. My study refines the ‘double binding identity’ approach, by claiming that the identity negotiation process entails women’s active role in self-defining as well as re-defining the meaning of Roma ethnicity itself. |
| Supervisor | Éva Fodor |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/fejos_anna.pdf |
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