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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 4 / 2009  
         
  Article:   THREE ROMA GROUPS FROM IRIS – A FRAGMENTED ETHNOGRAPHY.

Authors:  ZSUZSA PLAINER . 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Ethnographic description of Roma communities from Iris, a Cluj neighbourhood, proposes to deconstruct typical images on the” Gypsies” – regarded as poor, uneducated an evil. Complexity and contextualisation in representing “Gypsy‐ness” is revealed through different classificatory systems, in‐ and outward categorizations made by all local Roma and non‐Roma groups. Roma relations to institutions is a special focus for this study, forasmuch local school, NGO, church, are all relevant sites for producing and reproducing socio‐culturally shaped practices and images. Reasons for deconstructing the essentialist subject of “the Gypsies” are to highlight differences between Roma as subject for policy‐making and social surveys and Roma life experienced through narratives.

Keywords: Roma, ethnic classification, underclass, Cluj, images
  
         
     
         
         
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