Romanian Roma

An Institutional Ethnography of Labour Market Exclusion

Bibliographic Data

ID13055544
AuthorsJanne Paulsen Breimo (0000-0003-2660-3099, Nord University, corresponding author), Elena‐Loreni Baciu (0000-0002-7227-1462, West University of Timişoara)
Year2016
Volume4
Issue1
Pages116-126
Publication date2016-02-29
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Inclusion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2183-2803 • E-ISSN: 2183-2803
PublisherCogitatio (PUBLISHER • PT)
DOI10.17645/si.v4i1.539
OpenAlexW2292234968
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited8

Roma individuals are struggling to access the formal labour market in Romania. Previous research occupied with this issue has traditionally been dominated by quantitative studies of socio-economic indicators that cling to the characteristics of the ethnic group. The study presented here, however, uses institutional ethnography as a method of social inquiry to demonstrate that this issue needs to be studied from a bottom-up perspective. The article illustrates that there are factors connected to how the system of occupational integration operates that must be taken into consideration in order to explain the difficulties Roma individuals face when trying to enter the labour market in Romania. We argue that these structural barriers create and reinforce processes of minoritising that increase marginalization and discrimination and thereby hinder work inclusion for Roma individuals

Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Face (sociological concept · Inclusion (mineral · Inclusion–exclusion principle · Market integration · Order (exchange · Participant observation · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Romanian · Social exclusion · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Romani and Gypsy Studies

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