CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Majko, Ina |
|---|---|
| Title | Environmental Injustice: A Case Study On Roma Waste Pickers And Collectors in Albania |
| Summary | After the collapse of communism and the deconstruction of a centralized economy, a large part of the Roma community in Albania focused on collecting recycling materials, as their only mean of income. Therefore for 28 years, Roma in Tirana (capital of Albania) was informally engaged in waste picking activities around the city. Regardless of this fact, in December 2018 the Municipality of Tirana passed a decision which prohibits waste pickers from collecting recycle materials from the public garbage bins and as a consequence Roma people who were engaged in this activity were left without any mean of income and a useful solution. This research uses the threefold definition of Schlosberg about environmental justice and the definition of Bullard about environmental racism to analyze whether the decision of the municipal council of Tirana to make illegal the informal waste picking constitute or not an environmental injustice or/and environmental racism for Roma community in Tirana based on citizens’ perception. Since the study is focused on people perceptions, qualitative data, and Maximum Variation Sampling were used. |
| Supervisor | Tamara Steger |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/majko_ina.pdf |
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