CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Dumitru, Maria Georgiana |
|---|---|
| Title | Romani resistance: a case study of Roma women undertaking informal street work in Oslo |
| Summary | This study aims to disclose untold Romanian Romani women's experiences living temporarily homeless in Oslo and making a living from the undertaking informal street work such as begging, recycling, and selling magazines. I used the framework of intersectionality, as this research project is committed to exposing Romani Roma women's challenges from a multidimensional approach. I will draw on the forms of resistance and agency, as the project proposes an analytical overview of the sites of resistance exhibited by Roma throughout history in Romania. Moreover, it seeks to demonstrate how the past is reflected in nowadays injustices toward Roma communities. Thus, by taking the cases of Romani women who are left in extreme poverty in Romania and, therefore, forced to migrate as a strategy of survival to provide for their families, I will analyse how resistance has become part of Romani identity in facing oppression. Second, to last, by using qualitative research methods, I aimed to individualize each experience encountered by Romani women homeless and to pursue to deconstruct the idea of homogeneity of Roma communities and Roma women in Oslo. Finally, this study challenges the previous research made on Roma migration to Norway and tackles the missing female experience of Romani women in light of their multifaceted layers of oppression. For being women, Roma, poor, migrants, and homeless. |
| Supervisor | Renkin Z. Hadley, Éva Fodor |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/dumitru_maria.pdf |
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