Gypsy Anthropology

Alumnado Rumano Gitano y dinámicas de participación al sistema educativo local en tres escuelas de Granada

by Stefano Piemontese

2010 - Essay for the seminar: Kultur und Interkulturalität als Grundlagenproblem der empirischen Sozialwissenschaften, Master IMIB, Universität Osnabrück

The Access to Housing of Romanian Roma in Andalusia. Public Practices and Family Strategies in the area of Granada

by Stefano Piemontese

2011 - Master's Thesis. Internationale Migration und Interkulturelle Beziehungen [International Migration and Intercultural Relations], Universität Osnabrück

The study intends to offer an evaluation of the implementation of the social housing and social services schemes in... more The study intends to offer an evaluation of the implementation of the social housing and social services schemes in the case of the Romanian Roma community settled in the suburbs of Granada. Both the family housing strategies (like residential mobility and overcrowding) and the public initiatives aimed at ensuring the access to a decent and adequate housing (based essentially on unsustainable social services' benefits-based housing practices) are analysed. Methodologically, the study is based on a qualitative field investigation and is supported by an exhaustive legislative and newspaper-based bibliographic research. It pretends to be a useful instrument for the comparison, at a EU and local level, of diverse policy approaches to housing with respect to the Eastern EU Roma communities settled in Western EU countries.

Life Sentence: Romani Children in State Care in the Czech Republic

by Stepan Ripka

Co-authored with Kateřina Hrubá, publisher: European Roma Rights Centre

Romani children are disadvantaged within the Czech child protection system and highly overrepresented within the... more Romani children are disadvantaged within the Czech child protection system and highly overrepresented within the system of Czech institutional care. Relevant legislative and policy is not unified or sufficiently defined. A legal definition of child endangerment and legally binding guidelines for assessing child endangerment are lacking. Preventative social work is inadequate to address the problems experienced by marginalised Romani families. Significant problems experienced by a great number of Romani families in the Czech Republic, such as structural poverty, inadequate housing, unemployment and indebtedness are rarely addressed effectively and often form the basis for child removal, although the highest Czech courts have confirmed that this is not permissible. Low rights awareness negatively affects the position of Romani families during related court proceedings. Social work with Romani families while their children are in State care rarely results sufficient improvements to enable the return of affected children to their families. Romani children experience various problems while in institutional care, including physical abuse, ill-treatment and ethnic discrimination. Very few children’s homes offer programmes to support the development of positive ethnic identity. Romani children are less likely to be adopted than non-Romani children in the Czech Republic due to their ethnicity, and Romani children diagnosed as having a disability have limited educational and adoption opportunities. It is very difficult if not impossible for many Romani children to escape the existing system.

Book Review - Here to Stay: The Gypsies and Travellers of Britain

by Peter Kabachnik

Kabachnik, Peter. 2007. “Book Review - Here to Stay: The Gypsies and Travellers of Britain.” Romani Studies. 17 (2): 250-254.

Pentecostal Gypsies in Mexico / Gitanos Pentecostales en México

by Stepan Ripka

work-in-progress report in Spanish, the text has not been proofread

This paper is a fieldwork report from research on Pentecostal Kalderash Roma in Mexico in 2006/2007. Unpublished.more This paper is a fieldwork report from research on Pentecostal Kalderash Roma in Mexico in 2006/2007. Unpublished.

En este trabajo intenté dar los primeros pasos del análisis de datos obtenidos durante la temporada de trabajo de campo. En el segundo capítulo investigué la historia de gitanos en México y la historia de pentecostalismo gitano en Francia y en México.
Comenté que en la pregunta de la llegada de gitanos a México falta mucho trabajo en archivos y en la parte de historia de iglesia pentecostal en México de acuerdo con las aclaraciones de los actores de evangelización gitana en los años 70.
En la parte analítica hice la primera aproximación a los datos, especialmente a la forma de tratar mis experiencias de investigador pero también de participante en los hechos. Armé una metodología que me permitió descubrir a través de mi propia
experiencia con un estado alterado del cuerpo investigar los pasos interpretativos que hace un cuerpo de no-creyente entrando a una iglesia pentecostal. Por medio de este
análisis podía ver la distribución de autoridad interpretativa en la iglesia pentecostal y acercarme al tema de construcción de una comunidad imaginada, hermandad en salvación que contiene como a los gitanos también a lo gadjé. Comenté que la
interpretación colectiva de los cuerpos en estados alterados como el llenamiento del Espíritu Santo y la unificación de expresiones de los cuerpos puede ser la clave para
entender la comunidad imaginada trans-étnica y trans-cultural.
En la parte que trata de sueños y profecías empecé con una exploración de la libertad interpretativa que tiene un sujeto poseído por los dones del Espíritu Santo – de sueños
y profecías. Llegué a concluir que este sujeto tiene un poder extraordinario respecto de la distribución formal del poder en la iglesia pentecostal. Una mujer evangélica
gitana siendo ese sujeto se encuentra entre el rol de mujer gitana y el rol y la responsabilidad de un profeta evangélico. Allí es donde veo el cambio social que hace el pentecostalismo en los gitanos.

Imagining the Past, Creating Identity: the Case of the Bayash

by Annemarie Sorescu-Marinkovic

Published in: "Glasnik etnografskog Instituta SANU" 59 (2), 45-59.

Based on fieldwork conducted among several Bayash communities in the Balkans, the author examines the way in which the... more Based on fieldwork conducted among several Bayash communities in the Balkans, the author examines the way in which the interlocutors assume an identity and try to construct a past for their people, using etiological legends about the origin of
their community which combine heterogeneous historical and
geographical knowledge. The author shows that imagining
their past is as problematic for the Bayash as it is for any other
Roma or non-Roma group; the author argues that the eclectic
nature of this process is heralded by the fact that it is a regular
stage in the development of the historical thinking of each nation.

Napolitanci iz Mehovina [The half-breeds from Mehovine]

by Annemarie Sorescu-Marinkovic

Published in: Banjaši na Balkanu – Identitet etničke zajednice (ur. B. Sikimić), Beograd: Balkanološki institut, 2005, pp. 175–200.

The gurban displaced: Bayash guest workers in Paris

by Annemarie Sorescu-Marinkovic

Published in: Kurban in the Balkans (ed. B. Sikimić), Beograd: Balkanološki institut, 2007, pp. 137–151.

Între istorie şi memorie: băieşii din Europa [Between history and memory: the Bayash in Europe]

by Annemarie Sorescu-Marinkovic

Published in: Minoritar în Europa – Memorie, istorie, destin, Colecţia minorităţi 12, Complexul Muzeal Arad, 2011, pp. 269–296.

Elementi rumunske tradicionalne kulture u Vranjevu

by biljana sikimic

Elementi rumunske tradicionalne kulture u Vranjevu kod Novog Bečeja, Actele simpozionului Banatul – trecut istoric şi cultural, Novi Sad – Panciova 2005 [2006], 156–162.

„Noi iştem rumâni şî nu ni-i žao”: băieşii din Mehovine ["We are Romanians and are not ashame": the Bayash in Mehovine]

by Annemarie Sorescu-Marinkovic

Published in: Piramida, spring 2011, nr.2, 10–25.

Banjaši u Srbiji

by biljana sikimic

Banjaši u Srbiji, Бањаши на Балкану, Идентитет етничке заједнице (ур. Б. Сикимић), Балканолошки институт САНУ, Београд, 2005, 249–276.

• Strategies for creating an explanatory Bayash dictionary in Serbia.

by Annemarie Sorescu-Marinkovic

Published in: Revue Roumaine de Linguistique LVI (1), 2011, 17–34.

The Bayash are Roma ethnic groups speaking different dialects of the Romanian language and living on the territory of... more The Bayash are Roma ethnic groups speaking different dialects of the Romanian language and living on the territory of many European states. The Bayash dialects cannot be considered a language of its own, since they preserved the crucial features of the Romanian language, the most important changes occurring in the lexicon. The article takes into discussion the possible elaboration of an explanatory Bayash dictionary in Serbia and tries to offer some analytical perspectives. The author suggests that such a dictionary cannot be a general normative document, but, inevitably, a dialectal dictionary, being based upon one of the idioms. She also proposes the use of a Romanian-based phonetic transcription, which would enable the comparison between her results and those of other Romanian linguists who have studied these Romanian dialects.

«Nous venons des Carpates, des Carpates indiennes, de Russie»: Gérer une identité traumatisée – le cas des Bayaches de Serbie

by Annemarie Sorescu-Marinkovic

Published in: Mémoire et histoire en Europe centrale et orientale (sous la direction de Daniel Baric, Jacques Le Rider et Drago Roksandic), 2010, Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 217–226.

Đurđevdan kod vlaških Roma

by biljana sikimic

Đurđevdan kod vlaških Roma u selu Podvrška, Kultura 103–104, Beograd 2002, 184–193.

Banjaši u Srbiji iz balkanske lingvističke perspektive

by biljana sikimic

Biljana Sikimić: Banjaši u Srbiji iz balkanske lingvističke perspektive, Актуални проблеми на балканското езикознание. Аспекти на изследванeто на общобалканската лексика, София 2003, 114–129.

Karavlasi u selu Brnare kod Priboja

by biljana sikimic

Каравласи у селу Брнаре код Прибоја, Милешевски записи 6, Пријепоље 2005 [2006], 221–230.

Gurban in the village of Grebenac: between participants' memory and researchers' construction

by biljana sikimic

Gurban in the village of Grebenac: between participants’ memory and researchers’ construction, Kurban in the Balkans (B. Sikimić, P. Hristov, eds.), Belgrade 2007, 153–180.

Linguistic research of small exogamic communities

by biljana sikimic

published in "Jazyki i dialekty malyh etnicheskih grupp na Balkanah, Sankt-Peterburg - Muenchen 2005.

Idem svuda po inostranstvo sa mojima decama

by biljana sikimic

Б. Сикимић: Идем свуда по иностранство са мојима децама, Друштвене науке о Ромима у Србији, Одељење друштвених наука САНУ, књ. 29, уредници Љубомир Тадић и Горан Башић, Београд 2007, 143–168.