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Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People

Key Factors for the Success and Continuity of Schooling Levels

  • Provides an understanding of the different aspects of success, school continuity and social mobility among European Roma

  • Discusses the inequalities between Roma and non-Roma education from theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives

  • Explores the issue of Roma education and includes chapters from Western European, South and Central and Eastern European researchers

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Obstacles and Key Factors for the Continuity of Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
    2. The Multiple Stories in Finnish Roma Schooling

      • Marko Stenroos, Jenni Helakorpi
      Pages 99-116Open Access
    3. Key Factors to Educational Continuity and Success of Ciganos in Portugal

      • Olga Magano, Maria Manuela Mendes
      Pages 135-151Open Access
  3. Education Strategies: Success and Social Mobility vs. Reproduction of Inequalities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
    2. Duality of Humans: The Wish to Learn and Not to Learn

      • Andria D. Timmer, Máté Erős
      Pages 167-181Open Access
    3. Roma Population in the Spanish Education System: Identifying Explanatory Frameworks and Research Gaps

      • Francisco Javier Ullán de la Rosa, Hugo García Andreu
      Pages 201-227Open Access
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 251-253

About this book

This open access volume provides an understanding of the different aspects of success, school continuity and social mobility among European Roma, including the motives justifying the high rates of school dropout and failure among this group. It offers a critical and reflexive perspective about social reality from a multidisciplinary and transversal point of view, sharing knowledge and practices in different countries about the articulations between Roma families, individuals, school and public policies. Over time, there has been an increase in the educational attainment of European citizens, but there are still persistent inequalities between Roma and non-Roma, including gender inequalities, which greatly affect Roma women. The volume explores the issue of Roma education and includes chapters from Western European, South and Central and Eastern European researchers using different theoretical and methodological perspectives. The intersection of this diversity and plurality of standpoints makes possible to obtain a comprehensive view on the education and schooling of European Roma.

Keywords

  • Educational Discrimination among Roma
  • Discrimination and Educational Inequalities
  • UK Education Policy and Roma Pupils
  • School and Portuguese Ciganos
  • Key Factors for the Continuity of Education Paths
  • Social Capital and Education
  • Roma Mentor Project
  • Early Childhood Education in Spain
  • Finnish Roma Children’s Academic Disengagement
  • Education Strategies and Inequalities
  • Swedish Strategy for Roma Inclusion at Schools
  • High-Achieving Roma and the Costs of Social Mobility
  • Resilience among Roma Students
  • Open Access
  • ethnicity in education

Editors and Affiliations

  • Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), CIES-IUL, Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

    Maria Manuela Mendes

  • Open University (UAb), Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), CIES-IUL, Lisboa, Portugal

    Olga Magano

  • Research, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Stefánia Toma

About the editors

Maria Manuela Mendes is a sociologist and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon (FAUL). She received her PhD in Social Sciences from the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon in 2007 with a master degree (1997) and a degree in Sociology from Oporto University, 1992. She is a fellow researcher in Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology Institute University of Lisbon (CIES-IUL) and a member at the Centre for Research Architecture, Urban Planning and Design (CIAUD, FAUL) and the Institute of Sociology Faculty of Arts of Porto (ISFLUP). Her research focuses on ethnicity, immigration, Roma/Ciganos, city and diversity, social and spatial exclusion, relocation and disqualified territories. 

Olga Magano is a Professor at the Open University and a researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon (CIÊNCIA-IUL). Her academic and research interests lie in sociology  and around the issues of integration and social exclusion of social and cultural minorities, especially individuals of gypsy origin. She intends to continue her research in the field of intercultural relations and identity formation as a dynamic social process, particularly among gypsies.  



Stefánia Toma is a researcher at the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (ISPMN). Her areas of interests include the anthropology of ethnic minorities and ethnic relations, economic anthropology and sociology of education. Between 2006 and 2017 she was a researcher and a coordinator in a number of international research projects related to the international migration of Romanian Roma people.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People

  • Book Subtitle: Key Factors for the Success and Continuity of Schooling Levels

  • Editors: Maria Manuela Mendes, Olga Magano, Stefánia Toma

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52588-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021

  • License: CC BY

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52587-3Published: 09 February 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52590-3Published: 21 January 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52588-0Published: 08 February 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 253

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Ethnicity in Education, Social Work

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