The concept of a black sense of place focuses on racialised infrastructural violence and black struggle in the production of space in the Americas. Addressing how this resonates with the histories of ...dispossession of Roma in postsocialist Europe, this article examines how a black sense of place is constituted, which it explores through Czech Romani women's encounters with/in a postmilitary landscape. Former military areas are underexamined refuges of biocultural diversity and infrastructural de- and re-composition. Reworking participatory photography as a compositional process of snapshot photography that draws together 'snaps' of images, thought, and affect that do not congeal into a narrative, the analysis focuses on the modalities of movement, memory, and metabolism for collectively sensing and (re)imagining an infrastructural landscape. The concept of geocorporeality helps to specify how infrastructure bodies and knowledges co-compose with the geos, where a black sense of place materialises as metabolic ingestion, a refusal to forget or to stay in one's place in ways that inspire the infrastructural imagination in an ostensible wasteland.
Why you should read this article:• To recognise the need to address vaccine hesitancy among Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities to provide effective childhood immunisation programmes• To be aware ...of the importance of improving the education of healthcare professionals to provide equality of treatment through a better understanding of the perspectives of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities• To appreciate that working with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities through advocacy programmes and key workers may increase uptake of immunisationsIssues related to vaccine hesitancy, the delay in receipt or refusal of immunisation despite the availability of vaccination services, are complex and varied in origin and can lead to preventable childhood diseases and deaths. This article reports the findings of a literature review that explored childhood immunisation hesitancy in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities and how this may be addressed to promote vaccine uptake. Two main themes were identified – challenges and opportunities. Challenges included barriers to accessing health services and experiences of discrimination. Opportunities to promote vaccination included involving representative members of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities as trusted advocates and educators, providing flexible vaccination services and improving education for healthcare professionals to provide equity of treatment through a better understanding of the perspectives of marginalised communities.
This article explores performance-centred efforts to remediate the erasure of Romanies from public Holocaust narratives. First, the French play Samudaripen uses aesthetic strategies that emphasize ...themes of violence and rupture in order to evoke the brutality of Romani persecution under Nazi and Vichy regimes. With its performative elisions between Romani experiences in internment camps in France and concentration camps abroad, Samudaripen connects both historically-specific and fictionalized instances of Romani trauma to broader patterns of anti-Romani persecution past and present. Second, the Romanian-Romani language theatre piece Kali Traš (‘Black Fear’) relays the story of the Romani deportations to camps in Romania in the region of Transnistria under the rule of Romanian fascist dictator Ion Antonescu. Kali Traš pushes back against the silencing of the Romani genocide by reinvigorating the counter-history of the Romani Holocaust in both informative and affectively compelling ways. Each play proclaims Romani agency in commemorative contexts through its narrative and aesthetic strategies. This article shows how Romani artists have engaged in public-facing projects that criticize mainstream Holocaust historiographies and anti-Romani racism more broadly, assessing the extent to which such works constitute valuable additions to Romani struggles for recognition and reparations.
The paper examines the social mobility process of Romani youngsters in a settlement that is in one of the most disadvantaged regions of Hungary. Hodász became the centre of interest due to the ...relevant research concerning the mobility issue, because here, just contrary to the communities have similar sociocultural features, there are number of young Romani who could stand out by learning. The author interprets in wider aspects the determinative local norms, and the scale of values of local Vlach Romani community make possible for lots of local youngsters, that they can be graduated. In the second part of the paper the reader can understand the intellectual career by three studies, and consequently the social integration doesn’t automatically yield social mobility. In the situational analyses of Hodász example can be circumscribed the specific preconditions of intellectual career in the case of the young Romani and disadvantageous.
Minority and the state Taylor, Becky
2013, 2008., 20130719, 2008, 2013-11-01, 20080101
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'A minority and the state' is a much needed history of Britain's travelling communities in the twentieth century, drawing together detailed archival research at local and national level to explore ...the impact of state and legislative developments on Travellers, as well as their experience of missions, education, war and welfare. It also covers legal developments affecting Travellers and crucially argues that their history must not be dealt with in isolation but as part of a wider history of British minoritiesll. It will be of interest to scholars and students concerned with minority groups, the welfare state and the expansion of government, as well as general readers and practitioners working with Travellers.
Estimating the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and risk factors among the Roma population, the largest minority in Europe, and investigating the role of genetic or ...environmental/behavioral risk factors in CVD development are important issues in countries where they are significant minority. This study was designed to estimate the genetic susceptibility of the Hungarian Roma (HR) population to essential hypertension (EH) and compare it to that of the general (HG) population. Twenty EH associated SNPs (in AGT, FMO3, MTHFR-NPPB, NPPA, NPPA-AS1, AGTR1, ADD1, NPR3-C5orf23, NOS3, CACNB2, PLCE1, ATP2B1, GNB3, CYP1A1-ULK3, UMOD and GNAS-EDN3) were genotyped using DNA samples obtained from HR (N = 1176) and HG population (N = 1178) subjects assembled by cross-sectional studies. Allele frequencies and genetic risk scores (unweighted and weighted genetic risk scores (GRS and wGRS, respectively) were calculated for the study groups and compared to examine the joint effects of the SNPs. The susceptibility alleles were more frequent in the HG population, and both GRS and wGRS were found to be higher in the HG population than in the HR population (GRS: 18.98 ± 3.05 vs. 18.25 ± 2.97, p<0.001; wGRS: 1.4 IQR: 0.93-1.89 vs. 1.52 IQR: 0.99-2.00, p<0.01). Twenty-seven percent of subjects in the HR population were in the bottom fifth (GRS less than or equal to 16) of the risk allele count compared with 21% of those in the HG population. Thirteen percent of people in the HR group were in the top fifth (GRS greater than or equal to 22) of the GRS compared with 21% of those in the HG population (p<0.001), i.e., the distribution of GRS was found to be left-shifted in the HR population compared to the HG population. The Roma population seems to be genetically less susceptible to EH than the general one. These results support preventive efforts to lower the risk of developing hypertension by encouraging a healthy lifestyle.
Infant mortality rates are reliable indices of the child and general population health status and health care delivery. The most critical factors affecting infant mortality are socioeconomic status ...and ethnicity. The aim of this study was to assess the association between socioeconomic disadvantage, ethnicity, and perinatal, neonatal, and infant mortality in Slovakia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The associations between socioeconomic disadvantage (educational level, long-term unemployment rate), ethnicity (the proportion of the Roma population) and mortality (perinatal, neonatal, and infant) in the period 2017-2022 were explored, using linear regression models.
The higher proportion of people with only elementary education and long-term unemployed, as well as the higher proportion of the Roma population, increases mortality rates. The proportion of the Roma population had the most significant impact on mortality in the selected period between 2017 and 2022, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2022).
Life in segregated Roma settlements is connected with the accumulation of socioeconomic disadvantage. Persistent inequities between Roma and the majority population in Slovakia exposed by mortality rates in children point to the vulnerabilities and exposures which should be adequately addressed by health and social policies.
Der Artikel zeigt, wie sich ethnomusikologische Minderheitenforschung heute positioniert, insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit dem Music and Minorities Research Center (MMRC). Er thematisiert die ...Geschichte der Minderheiten forschung im Fach Ethnomusikologie, um die Entwicklung hin zu einem modernen Ansatz nachvollziehbar zu machen.
"Markedness' is a central notion in linguistic theory. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive survey of markedness relations across various grammatical categories, in a sample of ...closely-related speech varieties. It is based on a sample of over 100 dialects of Romani, collected and processed via the Romani Morpho-Syntax (RMS) Database - a comparative grammatical outline in electronic form, constructed by the authors between 2000-2004. Romani dialects provide an exciting sample of language change phenomena: they are oral languages, which have been separated and dispersed from some six centuries, and are strongly shaped by the influence of diverse contact languages. The book takes a typological approach to markedness, viewing it as a hierarchy among values that is conditioned by conceptual and cognitive universals. But it introduces a functional-pragmatic notion of markedness, as a grammaticalised strategy employed in order to priositise information. In what is referred to as 'dynamic', such prioritisation is influenced by an interplay of factors: the values within a category and the conceptual notions that they represent, the grammatical structure onto which the category values are mapped, and the kind of strategy that is applied in order to prioritise certain value. Consequently, the book contains a thorough survey of some 20 categories (e.g Person, Number, Gender, and so on) and their formal representation in various grammatical structures across the sample. The various accepted criteria for markedness (e.g. Complexity, Differentiation, Erosion, and so on) are examined systematically in relation to the values of each and every category, for each relevant structure. The outcome is a novel picture of how different markedness criteria may cluster for certain categories, giving a concrete reality to the hitherto rather vague notion of markedness. Borrowing and its relation to markedness is also examined, offering new insights into the motivations behind contact-induced change."
Measuring the number of ethnic minorities is one of the greatest challenges on the field of demography and ethnic geography. This is especially true for Roma whose census number does not coincide ...with estimated number by external observers. Several datasets and surveys are available to count the number of Roma people in Hungary, however they resulted in different numbers. The present study targets to overview these surveys, their approach and method and aims to provide a brief summary about the recent survey of the University of Debrecen based on the personal and electronic questioning of local representatives about the number of Roma. This study is also an attempt to show regional distribution of Roma population in Hungary. As a result, the estimated number of the Hungarian Roma community is 876,000 that is one of the highest values published so far and exceeds census number almost 3 times. The spatial patterns of Roma show their intense segregation, peripheralization and the phenomenon of ethnic change primarily in north-east and South Transdanubia.
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