"Jag tycker det går framåt med min framtid": om unga Romers självbild och framtidstro
(2001)School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The purpose of this paper was to get a picture of how young Roma/Gypsies look upon themselves, their culture and their future. We were also interested in knowing how they felt about the way society look upon them. The main questions of issue were in what ways are young Roma/Gypsies affected by the culture they were brought up in, if they had felt discriminated by the society and how they look upon their possibilities to get access to education and work. The methods we used to collect the data were interviews with young Roma/Gypsies and professionals as well as reading literature. The outcome of the study showed that all of the youngsters had experienced discrimination in one way or another. It also showed that despite of that they have... (More)
- The purpose of this paper was to get a picture of how young Roma/Gypsies look upon themselves, their culture and their future. We were also interested in knowing how they felt about the way society look upon them. The main questions of issue were in what ways are young Roma/Gypsies affected by the culture they were brought up in, if they had felt discriminated by the society and how they look upon their possibilities to get access to education and work. The methods we used to collect the data were interviews with young Roma/Gypsies and professionals as well as reading literature. The outcome of the study showed that all of the youngsters had experienced discrimination in one way or another. It also showed that despite of that they have faith in their own capability and look upon their future with a sense of hope. (Less)
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- author
- Beldja-Sjöblom, Cecilia and Lenander, Kerstin
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2001
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Social problems and welfare, national insurance, Sociala problem, social välfärd, socialförsäkring
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1358456
- date added to LUP
- 2004-11-08 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2004-11-08 00:00:00
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abstract = {{The purpose of this paper was to get a picture of how young Roma/Gypsies look upon themselves, their culture and their future. We were also interested in knowing how they felt about the way society look upon them. The main questions of issue were in what ways are young Roma/Gypsies affected by the culture they were brought up in, if they had felt discriminated by the society and how they look upon their possibilities to get access to education and work. The methods we used to collect the data were interviews with young Roma/Gypsies and professionals as well as reading literature. The outcome of the study showed that all of the youngsters had experienced discrimination in one way or another. It also showed that despite of that they have faith in their own capability and look upon their future with a sense of hope.}},
author = {{Beldja-Sjöblom, Cecilia and Lenander, Kerstin}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{"Jag tycker det går framåt med min framtid": om unga Romers självbild och framtidstro}},
year = {{2001}},
}