In the margins of stigma: health inequalities among Bulgarian Roma in a post-COVID-19 UK [PDF]
BMJ Global HealthThe COVID-19 pandemic had a disproportionate impact on minoritised ethnic groups in the UK, including newly arrived Roma communities. Employing ethnographic and participatory methods, this study illustrates how systemic barriers, including precarious ...
Alice Robinson +3 more
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Bulgarian Roma at the Dawn of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Social Sciences, 2023 With the establishment of the state of emergency in Bulgaria on 8 March 2020 due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, several restrictive measures aimed at social distancing were being introduced, to which the public had a contractionary reaction. The
Mila Maeva
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Images of Roma through the Language of Bulgarian State Archives [PDF]
Social Inclusion, 2020 This research has been carried out as part of the RomaInterbellum Project which studies the Roma civic emancipation between World War I and World War II.
Aleksandar G. Marinov
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Turkish, Bulgarian and German Language Mixing Among Bulgarian Muslim Roma in Germany [PDF]
East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2019 The paper presents the phenomenon of language mixing with Bulgarian by Muslim Roma migrants from northeastern Bulgaria in Berlin, Germany. They identify as Turks and in their everyday communication speak mainly Bulgarian and old variety of Turkish, in ...
Hristo Kyuchukov
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Identification of 99% of CFTR gene mutations in Bulgarian‐, Bulgarian Turk‐, and Roma cystic fibrosis patients [PDF]
Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 2019 Background The spectrum and frequencies of CFTR mutations causing Cystic fibrosis (CF) varies among different populations in Europe, and beyond. Methods We identified 98.9% of all CFTR mutations in a representative cohort of 140 CF patients comprising ...
Guergana Petrova +2 more
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School Climate, Academic Achievement and Educational Aspirations in Roma Minority and Bulgarian Majority Adolescents [PDF]
Child and Youth Care Forum, 2018 School climate can promote students' academic achievement and high educational aspirations. School climate refers to the quality and character of school life, norms, values, social interactions and organizational processes within a school.We examined for the present sample whether (a) school climate relates to academic achievement and educational ...
Radosveta Dimitrova +2 more
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Phenotypic Variability of LGMD 2C/R5 in a Genetically Homogenous Group of Bulgarian Muslim Roma [PDF]
GenesSarcoglycanopathies are among the most frequent and severe forms of autosomal recessive forms of limb-girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMDs) with childhood onset. Four subtypes are known: LGMDR3, LGMDR4, LGMDR5 and LGMDR6, which are caused, respectively, by mutations in the SGCA, SGCB, SGCG and SGCD genes. We present the clinical variability of LGMD 2C/R5
Velina Guergueltcheva +2 more
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Pilot Study About the Importance of the Active Role of Roma Students: Improving the Health of Bulgarian Children from the Roma Minority Group Through Nutrition and Probiotics. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel)Background/Objective: The priority task of each country is to ensure the protection of and improvement in its people’s health. One of the key aspects of health is related to food culture, consuming foods that ensure growth and normal development in a person and also prevent diseases.
Hadzhieva BR +5 more
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INEQUALITY, PRIVATION, SOCIAL VULNERABILITY: HATE SPEECH TOWARD BULGARIAN ROMA IN THE CONTEXT OF COVID-19 [PDF]
Trakia Journal of Sciences, 2022 The object of research of this study is hate discourse within the context of the analytic interpretative network of inequality – privation – social vulnerability.
S. Penkova, M. Tasheva
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Transnational patterns, social networks and self-help organizations for migrant women [version 3; peer review: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations] [PDF]
Open Research EuropePrevious research shows the importance of building up self-help structures in a transnational perspective for the inclusion of migrant women who are fleeing their home countries because of war, violence, or different forms of vulnerability.
Paolo Ruspini, Petko Hristov
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