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Romanian Roma: an Institutional Ethnography of Labour Market Exclusion
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Abstract
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, us... view more
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. (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
cultural factors; discrimination; ethnic group; ethnography; Romania; exclusion; gipsy; occupational integration; minority; unemployment; career prospect; labor market
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Labor Market Research
Free Keywords
institutional ethnography
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 116-126
Journal
Social Inclusion, 4 (2016) 1
Issue topic
Inclusive Technologies and Learning
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution