On the social construction of "otherness" identifying "the Roma" in post-socialist communities

Gail Kligman

doi:10.1556/revsoc.7.2001.2.4

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Review of Sociology

Volume/Issue:: Volume 7: Issue 2

On the social construction of "otherness" identifying "the Roma" in post-socialist communities

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Gail Kligman

Gail Kligman UCLA Department of Sociology 264 Haines Hall CA 90095 Los Angeles

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Pages:: 61–78

Online Publication Date:: 22 Jul 2005

Publication Date:: 01 Nov 2001

Article Category:: Journal Article

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/revsoc.7.2001.2.4

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Gysies, or Roma, are simultaneously among history's most romanticized and relived of peoples. Stereotypically racialized and eroticized as „other” wherever they are located, prejudice and discrimination against Roma are currently heightened. This paperseeks to illustrade processes of identification by which Roma in post-socialist countries are classified as „other”, as „different”. Drawing on interview and observational data from the commjunity studies of the project on „Poverty, Ethnicity, and Gender in Transitional Societies”, this paper explores various discursive ways in which Roma are stereotypically „othered” by non-oma populations as well as ways in which Roma understand themselves in relation to these historically persistent if situationally variable representations of their putative „identities”. As is discussed, „Roma” as a category has been expanded in certain contexts to essentialize a purported relationship between „race” and poverty.

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Review of Sociology

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Review of Sociology
Language	English
Year of Foundation	2000
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