CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Gulyás, Erzsébet |
|---|---|
| Title | The Everyday Struggles of Urban Youth in a Roma School |
| Summary | The aim of the study is to examine various practices and struggles of urban young Roma in Budapest that constitute their identity and emerge from subtle and multi-layered mechanism 25 years after the political economic transition. Through anthropological investigation among Roma youth separated within the educational system, I examine the correlation between the identities constructed and negotiated by practices and the mechanisms of exclusion as determinant of differentiation. Moreover, I show through empirical evidence how the everyday struggles of urban youth between education, employment, kinship and tradition creates a dialogical and dynamic relationship between these two processes. Through this relationship a shared ethnicity emerges as imagined sameness and otherness at the same time. In order to reveal logic of shifting reference points of self-identification, I have collected qualitative data through participatory observation in a Roma school for three months. In the research I discover direct and indirect, systemic and experienced exclusion behind the strategy of “choosing” separation and imagined ‘sameness’. Furthermore, I discover everyday struggles rooted in their contribution of care, domestic work and income generation. Finally, in a separate chapter, I take an account of gender issues that even if it overlaps with the section on struggles, helps to understand the inner structure of the community and their relation to and within family. |
| Supervisor | Zentai, Violetta; Monterescu, Daniel; |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/gulyas_erzsebet.pdf |
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