ROMI U DRUŠTVENOM PROSTORU HRVATSKE
GYPSIES IN THE CROATIAN SOCIAL SPACE

Summary/Abstract: Non-territoriality continues to define the Gypsies. This fact maintains and further enhances the social quality relying upon family and close family kinship. Broader forms of sociality are not frequent and mean less to Gypsies than to other social groups. With pronounced features of nomadism on all levels of Gypsy history: individual, family and national levels, almost wherever they stayed for longer or shorter periods, they remained on the margins of society. On the other hand, regardless of their emphatically small numbers, Gypsies in Croatia, if they want to participate in the development of society both as protagonists and “consumers”of development, will have difficulties in fighting for a change of position while they remain autarchic, selfsufficient or with only occasional and vague connections with their environment.

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