Educating the Hungarian Roma: Nongovernmental Organizations and Minority Rights - Couverture rigide

Timmer, Andria D.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1498525563 ISBN 13 : 9781498525565

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2016

Synopsis

This book is based on 18 months of ethnographic research with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that take the primary interventionist role in Roma education throughout Hungary. Through the use of ethnographic interviews, long-term participant observation and textual analysis of NGO websites, pamphlets, and promotional materials, Andria D. Timmer examines the nongovernmental sector as the locale in which the politicized "Gypsy identity" is constructed, interpreted, and contested. Many NGOs uphold the provider-beneficiary dichotomy, which blames failures on cultural or ethnic differences, rather than address the discrimination, racism, segregationist policies, and outright violence against the Roma. This policy has further exacerbated the residential isolation, discrimination, and manufactured sense of cultural differences that enables the continued practice of segregating Roma children into ethnically homogeneous schools or classrooms that commonly offer less quality education than that which their majority peers receive.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andria D. Timmer is lecturer of anthropology at Christopher Newport University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498525563
• ISBN 13: 9781498525565
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 202
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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