CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Pamfilie, Mihaela Lisia |
|---|---|
| Title | Poverty and social policy. Guaranteed Minimum Income among a Roma community in Romania |
| Summary | This research aims to discuss how a specific social policy in Romania is applied in a local context, in a multiethnic rural area with a high index of material deprivation. Moreover, it investigates a general inspection in Romania that is proposed by the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection in January 2021, and it involves a specific social transfer -Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI). The goal is counting how many families that receive this financial aid can work but “choose to stay on benefits”. Fieldwork consisted of ethnographic research and interviews conducted in Bolduț with welfare workers and Roma GMI beneficiaries as a suitable way to grasp the realities and outcomes of the national program at a local level. This research site will illustrate how social policy is intertwined with local perspectives of racialized poverty, activation on the labor market and “deservingness”. The discriminatory discourse can shape what kind of assistance is seen by the state representatives as fair and ethical and can influence the quantum at a national level and the access at a local level. Framing who deserves or not can be based on the dominant discourses or on the experiences that state representatives have. The existing narratives influence if social workers in a specific context choose to do extra-work to help the individuals in need. |
| Supervisor | Zentai, Violetta; Rovid, Marton |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/pamfilie_mihaela.pdf |
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