Raising your Voice: Interaction Processes between Roma and Local Authorities in Rural Romania
Raising your Voice: Interaction Processes between Roma and Local Authorities in Rural Romania

Author(s): Marjoke Oosterom
Subject(s): Government/Political systems, Politics and society, Comparative politics, Rural and urban sociology, History of Communism, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: ISPMN Institutul pentru Studierea Problemelor Minorităţilor Naţionale
Keywords: Roma minorities in Romania; Interaction with the local authorities; Rural Romania; Socal exclusion;
Summary/Abstract: This Working Paper is summarizing the main empirical findings presented in the Author’s MA thesis. She defended her thesis at the Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN), Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in June 2006. Looking at the relationship between the Roma and the local authorities, we see that several issues are politicized and discussed in the public sphere. The objectives of this research can be formulated as follows: with this study it aims to make a contribution to the knowledge about social exclusion of the Roma - by describing social processes and explaining how social and political processes shape the relationship between the Roma and local authorities - and to make a contribution to the knowledge on the interaction between formal and informal institutions.

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