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Collective Identity and Well-Being of Bulgarian Roma Adolescents and Their Mothers

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
In Europe and specifically in Bulgaria, Roma represent the largest indigenous ethnic minority exposed to severe discrimination, social exclusion, poverty, and compromised well-being. To improve their conditions, identifying sources of psychological well-being for Roma is theoretically relevant and practically important.
Athanasios Chasiotis, Fons J R Van De Vijver, Michael Bender   +2 more
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Familial generalized epilepsy in Bulgarian Roma

Epileptic Disorders, 2007
ABSTRACT Aims Gypsy communities constitute cultural and frequently inbred genetic isolates. Several genetic neurological disorders have been identified in these communities. Epilepsy appears as a fairly frequent medical condition among Bulgarian Gypsies, and many patients can be related to large pedigrees that may ...
Pierre Genton, Pierre Szepetowski, Ivailo Tournev   +2 more
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Bulgarian Policies towards the Roma Housing Problem and Roma Squatter Settlements

European Journal of Housing Policy, 2007
ABSTRACT The paper argues that the national and local authorities in Bulgaria do not utilize the vast experience accumulated by many developed and developing countries, the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS) and the World Bank in providing housing for the poor and dealing with squatter settlements. Ignoring this experience is a serious
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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 ...
Laura Ferrer-Wreder, Johan Ahlen, Radosveta Dimitrova   +2 more
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(Not)visible in Bulgarian Cinema – to the Topic of Roma and On-screen Presentations

Balkanistic Forum, 2022
Film panoramas and specialized lectures related to the topic of Roma representation in the screen arts are of particular importance to the Bulgarian cultural field and society, but unfortunately they are rarely realized. The visual language’s instrumentarium could be different when try to articulate the image of the largest ethnic group in the Balkans.
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Religious and social commitment of the Bulgarian Roma migrants in Spain

Local Economy, 2018
This paper is configured as an ethnographic discussion on the religious and social ties of different Roma/Gypsy communities from Bulgaria within their post-socialist labour migrations to Spain. It aims to add new fieldwork results and interpretations to the lacuna of studies on the interrelations between faith and migration.
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Constructing Roma students as ethnic ‘others’ through orientalist discourses in Bulgarian schools

International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2018
This article uses the case of Bulgarian, predominantly Roma, schools to illustrate the long history of stereotypes about Roma people dating back to modernity’s discursive binary oppositions of ‘civ...
Veselina Lambrev, Anna Kirova
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The Reception of New Migrants in French Urban and Rural Schools: Comparing the Cases of Bulgarian Roma and Syrian Refugees

Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 2022
This article examines the ways in which schools in France face the challenges posed by new types of migrant and refugee pupils. It is based on comparative ethnographic fieldwork carried out in various localities of a French department and on interviews with school personnel confronted with the arrival of children from two groups who embody the ...
Schiff, Claire, Clavé-Mercier, Alexandra   +1 more
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Being Gypsy in Europe. The Case of Bulgarian Roma Workers in Spain [PDF]

Balkanologie, 2008
The changes following the collapse of the Socialist regime in Bulgaria - 19 years of social and economic crises - have resulted in waves of migration toward Western Europe. Spain has become one of the most popular destinations for Bulgarians working abroad.
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The Bulgarian Gypsies (Roma) during World War II

2001
Gypsies have been living in the land of Bulgaria for centuries. The surrounding population refers to them with the generic name Tsigani and perceives them as one whole undifferentiated community. It is true that all Gypsies in Bulgaria belong to the Roma stream and that Roma is also their common self-appellation; however, they are internally divided ...
Elena Marushiakova, Vesselin Popov
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