Between Marginality and Social Mobility: How Eastern Slovak Roma born in Socialist Czechoslovakia Navigated Their Way Forward.
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2025-06-15
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The so-called Roma issue was the main obstacle for Slovakia's integration into the European Union, and it remains a significant societal problem. Thousands of Roma live in ghetto-like settlements, which resemble the socio-economic characteristics of Third World slums. The situation is the worst in Eastern Slovakia. Only a small percentage of them complete secondary education or secure long-term employment. Taking this into consideration, there are also Slovak Roma who do not belong to these characteristics. By tracing the stories of those ‘successful’ Eastern Slovak Roma born in socialist Czechoslovakia, this thesis sheds a positive light on this community and demonstrates that bridging social capital, in the form of a broader non-Roma community, played a significant role in their social mobility. Moreover, it showed that different Roma generations have experienced the socialist era in various ways, both experiencing a sudden wave of discrimination after the fall of the regime in 1989.
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