Bálint Ábel Bereményi
Biographic Data
| ID | 94576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bálint Ábel Bereményi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bálint Ábel |
| FAMILY NAME | Bereményi |
| SIGNATURE | BEREMÉNYI B Á |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2293-3923 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Navigating Bicultural Ecologies: Schooling and Life Chances in Roma Communities
This longitudinal study examines 30 years in the lives of two segregated Roma communities in Hungary by tracing educational trajectories and adult life chances. It analyses acculturation processes, exploring how educational experiences intersect with bicultural home and community socialisation to shape the accumulation and transformation of forms of capital relevant to school continuity and attainment. Data were collected at four time points: at …
The “Conguito”, the “Moro” and the “Gitano”: Multiraciality and the Pervasive Stigmatisation of Racialised Youth in Spain
Maghrebi Muslims, Black Africans, and Spanish Roma people are possibly the most stigmatised, racialised and discriminated against groups in contemporary Spain, a country with a strong legacy of colonialism and a problematic relationship with diversity. Because mixedness is a crucial test for evaluating the persistence of societal ethnoracial divisions, in this article we analyse the narratives of children and youth of Maghrebi Muslim, Black Afro-…
Occupying the invited spaces of European decision-making: Deepening conceptions of children's democratic participation by learning from Roma-led participatory projects with children
There are growing commitments to involving children in policymaking in Europe and beyond, but these processes remain exclusionary. Thinking spatially and epistemologically can help challenge some of this exclusion and promote a stronger orientation towards justice. We draw on two case studies of Roma-led participatory processes in Europe that were part of an international programme in five countries, which sought to understand how to connect the …
False promises and distinct minority mobility paths: Trajectories and costs of the education-driven social mobility of racialised ethnic groups
This Special Issue (SI) enquires into the trajectories and consequences of education-driven social mobility among members of racialised and minoritised ethnic groups in a variety of geographical settings. It explores commonalities in the socalled distinctive minority mobility path that are typical for many racialised minorities in different social contexts – from Asia through post-socialist Eastern European countries to Western Europe and North A…
Reconciling habitus through third spaces: How do Roma and non-Roma first-in-family graduates negotiate the costs of social mobility in Hungary
This article explores how first-in-family-graduate Roma and non-Roma Hungarians from the working-class experience education-driven social mobility and reconcile the dislocation of their primary-habitus due to changing class through transiting a ‘third space’. Drawing on Bhabha’s and bell hooks’ development of this concept, we aim to unpack the different ways how class-changers, in moving between the social milieu of their origin and their destina…
“But later you regret it". Roma youth navigating aspirational dilemmas
This article reflects on the Spanish Roma people’s aspiration dilemmas about their school-to-work transition (STWT). Study of the STWT of Roma young people casts light on the social and economic inequalities in Spanish society. Academic and occupational aspiration dilemmas reveal aspects of the interplay between structural-historical, societal, institutional and community-level factors that condition Roma people’s “capacity to aspire”, which Appa…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Far from Colorblind. Reflections on Racialization in Contemporary Europe
European history is to a significant extent also a history about racialization and racism. Since the colonizers of past centuries defined boundaries between “civilized” and “savages” by applying value standards in which the notions of race, ethnicity, culture, and religion were interwoven and imposed on human beings perceived as fundamentally different from themselves, racialization became deeply inherent in how (white) Europeans viewed the world…
Meaning making and resilience among academically high-achieving Roma women
This paper investigates the self-narratives of academically high-achieving, first generation college educated, and highly resilient Roma women. We place their meaning making and social navigation processes at the centre of our inquiry, understanding it as an important element of the resilience process of upward mobility (Ungar 2012). Self-narratives describing their changing social class and the corresponding dilemmas offers us the opportunity to…
The more successful, the more apolitical’. Romani mentors’ mixed experiences with an intra-ethnic mentoring project
This paper discusses Romani mentors’ mixed experiences, views and coping practices in an intra-ethnic ‘natural mentoring’ project targeting young Romani (more commonly known as ‘Gypsy’) students in Spain. The intervention transforms already existing intra-ethnic bonds into mentorships in local Spanish Romani communities. To meet the aims of this research, observations were conducted at mentors’ follow-up meetings and other project activities, and…
Crisis hipotecaria, capital social y empoderamiento: Una exploración a partir del caso de la Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH)
Desde el estallido de la crisis económica la vulnerabilidad socioeconómica se ha ido agravando, tanto en cantidad de familias cuyas fuentes de ingresos han disminuido como en la gravedad de la situación, llegando a cronificar la pobreza en determinados sectores sociales. Las ejecuciones hipotecarias han provocado serias dificultades para cubrir necesidades básicas como la alimentación, la higiene o los suministros de la vivienda. En España, debid…
La crisis hipotecaria: Impactos y respuestas sociales en Cataluña
Desde el estallido en 2008 de la burbuja inmobiliaria y financiera, el sobreendeudamiento hipotecario representa una preocupación para muchas familias españolas y catalanas, en un contexto de «nueva pobreza» caracterizada por el desempleo masivo y por unas políticas de austeridad que han conducido a muchas personas a la exclusión social. La pérdida de la vivienda tiene impacto sobre las relaciones sociales y condiciona tanto las estrategias socio…
Caught in the triangle of mobility: Social, residential and pupil mobility
This article examines the school choices of families who have recently experienced downward mobility during the economic crisis in Spain. Based on semi-structured interviews we analyse the educational strategies of the families in a Bourdieusian framework, focusing on how they cope with the loss of their perceived social status. Prior to the crisis, these families of working-class origin improved their social position as a result of their success…
Bittersweet Success. The Impact of Academic Achievement Among the Spanish Roma After a Decade of Roma Inclusion
Legitimising inequality? The governance of ‘Others’ through participatory initiatives in schools
This article discusses how the call for families’ active participation in school can be understood as a form of regulatory act producing neoliberal subjectivities based on responsibility, entrepreneurship and rational calculation. The analysis draws on the results of two projects aiming to improve the relationship between families of Spanish Roma and immigrant background and the school. Results suggest that the idea of participation is presented …
Is ethnicity a meaningful category of employment policies for Roma? A comparative case study of Hungary and Spain
This paper aims to inquire into the potential of active labour market policies (LMP) to reach out to unemployed Roma population in Hungary and in Spain. While in Hungary unemployed Roma people are mainly thought to be reached through mainstream measures, Spain represents a more complex regime with an emphasis on ethnically targeted programmes. Our analysis draws on a wider comparative research project (NEUJOBS) conducted in 2012/2013 and provides…
Interrupted aspirations: Research and policy on Gitano education in a time of recession, in Spain
During the past decade, Gitano students’ school success and its cultural, social and emotional consequences have been largely unexplored, particularly in a new context: the deep economic crisis in Spain. This study reviews and analyses the evolution of the research production and the changing contexts of policy trends affecting the ‘Roma education issue’ as they have developed in Spain during the past decade (2004–2014). The authors take as a sta…
Gitans espagnols et immigrés roms en Espagne: Discours émancipatoire et nouvelles catégories de stratification dans la société et l’école
Intercultural policies and the contradictory views of teachers: The Roma in Catalonian schools
In this article, we examine the contradictions and lack of consistency between various levels of discourse relating to Roma educational policies. Policy-makers have claimed that political interventions would positively impact the progress of Roma. However, the results have been mixed. We argue here that teachers need to re-evaluate their roles as politically aware and culturally informed agents in order to guarantee social justice to a historical…
Relaciones y experiencias de los gitanos y los rom con la escuela. Una aproximación comparativa
Este artículo presenta las similitudes y diferencias entre las estrategias y prácticas escolares de dos grupos de gitanos. A partir del trabajo de campo etnográfico realizado con gitanos de Badalona (España) y con rom de Bogotá (Colombia), y en las respectivas escuelas, se analizan algunas condiciones sociales y políticas que conducen a prácticas escolares aparentemente semejantes entre gitanos y rom, mientras las razones subyacentes demuestran d…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Far from Colorblind. Reflections on Racialization in Contemporary Europe
European history is to a significant extent also a history about racialization and racism. Since the colonizers of past centuries defined boundaries between “civilized” and “savages” by applying value standards in which the notions of race, ethnicity, culture, and religion were interwoven and imposed on human beings perceived as fundamentally different from themselves, racialization became deeply inherent in how (white) Europeans viewed the world…
Is ethnicity a meaningful category of employment policies for Roma? A comparative case study of Hungary and Spain
This paper aims to inquire into the potential of active labour market policies (LMP) to reach out to unemployed Roma population in Hungary and in Spain. While in Hungary unemployed Roma people are mainly thought to be reached through mainstream measures, Spain represents a more complex regime with an emphasis on ethnically targeted programmes. Our analysis draws on a wider comparative research project (NEUJOBS) conducted in 2012/2013 and provides…
Interrupted aspirations: Research and policy on Gitano education in a time of recession, in Spain
During the past decade, Gitano students’ school success and its cultural, social and emotional consequences have been largely unexplored, particularly in a new context: the deep economic crisis in Spain. This study reviews and analyses the evolution of the research production and the changing contexts of policy trends affecting the ‘Roma education issue’ as they have developed in Spain during the past decade (2004–2014). The authors take as a sta…
False promises and distinct minority mobility paths: Trajectories and costs of the education-driven social mobility of racialised ethnic groups
This Special Issue (SI) enquires into the trajectories and consequences of education-driven social mobility among members of racialised and minoritised ethnic groups in a variety of geographical settings. It explores commonalities in the socalled distinctive minority mobility path that are typical for many racialised minorities in different social contexts – from Asia through post-socialist Eastern European countries to Western Europe and North A…
Reconciling habitus through third spaces: How do Roma and non-Roma first-in-family graduates negotiate the costs of social mobility in Hungary
This article explores how first-in-family-graduate Roma and non-Roma Hungarians from the working-class experience education-driven social mobility and reconcile the dislocation of their primary-habitus due to changing class through transiting a ‘third space’. Drawing on Bhabha’s and bell hooks’ development of this concept, we aim to unpack the different ways how class-changers, in moving between the social milieu of their origin and their destina…
Legitimising inequality? The governance of ‘Others’ through participatory initiatives in schools
This article discusses how the call for families’ active participation in school can be understood as a form of regulatory act producing neoliberal subjectivities based on responsibility, entrepreneurship and rational calculation. The analysis draws on the results of two projects aiming to improve the relationship between families of Spanish Roma and immigrant background and the school. Results suggest that the idea of participation is presented …
Intercultural policies and the contradictory views of teachers: The Roma in Catalonian schools
In this article, we examine the contradictions and lack of consistency between various levels of discourse relating to Roma educational policies. Policy-makers have claimed that political interventions would positively impact the progress of Roma. However, the results have been mixed. We argue here that teachers need to re-evaluate their roles as politically aware and culturally informed agents in order to guarantee social justice to a historical…
La crisis hipotecaria: Impactos y respuestas sociales en Cataluña
Desde el estallido en 2008 de la burbuja inmobiliaria y financiera, el sobreendeudamiento hipotecario representa una preocupación para muchas familias españolas y catalanas, en un contexto de «nueva pobreza» caracterizada por el desempleo masivo y por unas políticas de austeridad que han conducido a muchas personas a la exclusión social. La pérdida de la vivienda tiene impacto sobre las relaciones sociales y condiciona tanto las estrategias socio…
Caught in the triangle of mobility: Social, residential and pupil mobility
This article examines the school choices of families who have recently experienced downward mobility during the economic crisis in Spain. Based on semi-structured interviews we analyse the educational strategies of the families in a Bourdieusian framework, focusing on how they cope with the loss of their perceived social status. Prior to the crisis, these families of working-class origin improved their social position as a result of their success…
Relaciones y experiencias de los gitanos y los rom con la escuela. Una aproximación comparativa
Este artículo presenta las similitudes y diferencias entre las estrategias y prácticas escolares de dos grupos de gitanos. A partir del trabajo de campo etnográfico realizado con gitanos de Badalona (España) y con rom de Bogotá (Colombia), y en las respectivas escuelas, se analizan algunas condiciones sociales y políticas que conducen a prácticas escolares aparentemente semejantes entre gitanos y rom, mientras las razones subyacentes demuestran d…
Relaciones y experiencias de los gitanos y los rom con la escuela. Una aproximación comparativa
Este artículo presenta las similitudes y diferencias entre las estrategias y prácticas escolares de dos grupos de gitanos. A partir del trabajo de campo etnográfico realizado con gitanos de Badalona (España) y con rom de Bogotá (Colombia), y en las respectivas escuelas, se analizan algunas condiciones sociales y políticas que conducen a prácticas escolares aparentemente semejantes entre gitanos y rom, mientras las razones subyacentes demuestran d…
Intercultural policies and the contradictory views of teachers: The Roma in Catalonian schools
In this article, we examine the contradictions and lack of consistency between various levels of discourse relating to Roma educational policies. Policy-makers have claimed that political interventions would positively impact the progress of Roma. However, the results have been mixed. We argue here that teachers need to re-evaluate their roles as politically aware and culturally informed agents in order to guarantee social justice to a historical…
Gitans espagnols et immigrés roms en Espagne: Discours émancipatoire et nouvelles catégories de stratification dans la société et l’école
Interrupted aspirations: Research and policy on Gitano education in a time of recession, in Spain
During the past decade, Gitano students’ school success and its cultural, social and emotional consequences have been largely unexplored, particularly in a new context: the deep economic crisis in Spain. This study reviews and analyses the evolution of the research production and the changing contexts of policy trends affecting the ‘Roma education issue’ as they have developed in Spain during the past decade (2004–2014). The authors take as a sta…
Bittersweet Success. The Impact of Academic Achievement Among the Spanish Roma After a Decade of Roma Inclusion
Legitimising inequality? The governance of ‘Others’ through participatory initiatives in schools
This article discusses how the call for families’ active participation in school can be understood as a form of regulatory act producing neoliberal subjectivities based on responsibility, entrepreneurship and rational calculation. The analysis draws on the results of two projects aiming to improve the relationship between families of Spanish Roma and immigrant background and the school. Results suggest that the idea of participation is presented …
Is ethnicity a meaningful category of employment policies for Roma? A comparative case study of Hungary and Spain
This paper aims to inquire into the potential of active labour market policies (LMP) to reach out to unemployed Roma population in Hungary and in Spain. While in Hungary unemployed Roma people are mainly thought to be reached through mainstream measures, Spain represents a more complex regime with an emphasis on ethnically targeted programmes. Our analysis draws on a wider comparative research project (NEUJOBS) conducted in 2012/2013 and provides…
Caught in the triangle of mobility: Social, residential and pupil mobility
This article examines the school choices of families who have recently experienced downward mobility during the economic crisis in Spain. Based on semi-structured interviews we analyse the educational strategies of the families in a Bourdieusian framework, focusing on how they cope with the loss of their perceived social status. Prior to the crisis, these families of working-class origin improved their social position as a result of their success…
Crisis hipotecaria, capital social y empoderamiento: Una exploración a partir del caso de la Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH)
Desde el estallido de la crisis económica la vulnerabilidad socioeconómica se ha ido agravando, tanto en cantidad de familias cuyas fuentes de ingresos han disminuido como en la gravedad de la situación, llegando a cronificar la pobreza en determinados sectores sociales. Las ejecuciones hipotecarias han provocado serias dificultades para cubrir necesidades básicas como la alimentación, la higiene o los suministros de la vivienda. En España, debid…
La crisis hipotecaria: Impactos y respuestas sociales en Cataluña
Desde el estallido en 2008 de la burbuja inmobiliaria y financiera, el sobreendeudamiento hipotecario representa una preocupación para muchas familias españolas y catalanas, en un contexto de «nueva pobreza» caracterizada por el desempleo masivo y por unas políticas de austeridad que han conducido a muchas personas a la exclusión social. La pérdida de la vivienda tiene impacto sobre las relaciones sociales y condiciona tanto las estrategias socio…
Meaning making and resilience among academically high-achieving Roma women
This paper investigates the self-narratives of academically high-achieving, first generation college educated, and highly resilient Roma women. We place their meaning making and social navigation processes at the centre of our inquiry, understanding it as an important element of the resilience process of upward mobility (Ungar 2012). Self-narratives describing their changing social class and the corresponding dilemmas offers us the opportunity to…
The more successful, the more apolitical’. Romani mentors’ mixed experiences with an intra-ethnic mentoring project
This paper discusses Romani mentors’ mixed experiences, views and coping practices in an intra-ethnic ‘natural mentoring’ project targeting young Romani (more commonly known as ‘Gypsy’) students in Spain. The intervention transforms already existing intra-ethnic bonds into mentorships in local Spanish Romani communities. To meet the aims of this research, observations were conducted at mentors’ follow-up meetings and other project activities, and…
“But later you regret it". Roma youth navigating aspirational dilemmas
This article reflects on the Spanish Roma people’s aspiration dilemmas about their school-to-work transition (STWT). Study of the STWT of Roma young people casts light on the social and economic inequalities in Spanish society. Academic and occupational aspiration dilemmas reveal aspects of the interplay between structural-historical, societal, institutional and community-level factors that condition Roma people’s “capacity to aspire”, which Appa…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Far from Colorblind. Reflections on Racialization in Contemporary Europe
European history is to a significant extent also a history about racialization and racism. Since the colonizers of past centuries defined boundaries between “civilized” and “savages” by applying value standards in which the notions of race, ethnicity, culture, and religion were interwoven and imposed on human beings perceived as fundamentally different from themselves, racialization became deeply inherent in how (white) Europeans viewed the world…
Reconciling habitus through third spaces: How do Roma and non-Roma first-in-family graduates negotiate the costs of social mobility in Hungary
This article explores how first-in-family-graduate Roma and non-Roma Hungarians from the working-class experience education-driven social mobility and reconcile the dislocation of their primary-habitus due to changing class through transiting a ‘third space’. Drawing on Bhabha’s and bell hooks’ development of this concept, we aim to unpack the different ways how class-changers, in moving between the social milieu of their origin and their destina…
False promises and distinct minority mobility paths: Trajectories and costs of the education-driven social mobility of racialised ethnic groups
This Special Issue (SI) enquires into the trajectories and consequences of education-driven social mobility among members of racialised and minoritised ethnic groups in a variety of geographical settings. It explores commonalities in the socalled distinctive minority mobility path that are typical for many racialised minorities in different social contexts – from Asia through post-socialist Eastern European countries to Western Europe and North A…
The “Conguito”, the “Moro” and the “Gitano”: Multiraciality and the Pervasive Stigmatisation of Racialised Youth in Spain
Maghrebi Muslims, Black Africans, and Spanish Roma people are possibly the most stigmatised, racialised and discriminated against groups in contemporary Spain, a country with a strong legacy of colonialism and a problematic relationship with diversity. Because mixedness is a crucial test for evaluating the persistence of societal ethnoracial divisions, in this article we analyse the narratives of children and youth of Maghrebi Muslim, Black Afro-…
Occupying the invited spaces of European decision-making: Deepening conceptions of children's democratic participation by learning from Roma-led participatory projects with children
There are growing commitments to involving children in policymaking in Europe and beyond, but these processes remain exclusionary. Thinking spatially and epistemologically can help challenge some of this exclusion and promote a stronger orientation towards justice. We draw on two case studies of Roma-led participatory processes in Europe that were part of an international programme in five countries, which sought to understand how to connect the …
Navigating Bicultural Ecologies: Schooling and Life Chances in Roma Communities
This longitudinal study examines 30 years in the lives of two segregated Roma communities in Hungary by tracing educational trajectories and adult life chances. It analyses acculturation processes, exploring how educational experiences intersect with bicultural home and community socialisation to shape the accumulation and transformation of forms of capital relevant to school continuity and attainment. Data were collected at four time points: at …
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Romani and Gypsy Studies (12 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Social science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Ethnic group (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works)