Pata care devine din ce în ce mai vizibilă. Cazul segregării entice din ghetoul Pata Rât, Cluj-Napoca
The Stain That Gets Increasingly Visible. The Ethnic Segregation in the Pata Rât (Stain snout) Ghetto, Cluj-Napoca

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents, in the first part, a brief theoretical analisys of the ethnic segregation and the causes entailing this kind of urban fragmentation. Undoubtedly, discrimination is one of the main reasons of segregation, closely followed by the countless social disadvantages. Besides all these, we may point out the poor quality of public policies which instead of improving the marginalized people’s situaion, pushes them deeper into poverty and stigma, as in the case study of Pata Rât, Cluj-Napoca. This paper aims at drawing attention to discrimination and segregation of the Gypsy people living in the outskirts of Cluj-Napoca city, usually called Pata Rât ghetto, and the urgent need for new inclusion policies.

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