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Patterns of Exclusion: Constructing Gypsy Ethnicity and the Making of an Underclass in Transitional Societies of Europe (East European Monograph) (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Patterns of ExclusionDrawing on historical and demographic data, this book examines how the social conditions of the Roma (Gypsies) has changed over time and across countries. It states that, while Gypsies always tended to be poor and at the margins of society, the depth and nature of their poverty and the ways they were excluded varied substantially.
Full description- Publisher: East European Monographs
- Published: 13 June 2006
- Format: Hardback 320 pages
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- Categories: Social Classes | Ethnic Studies | Physical Anthropology & Ethnography | European History | Social & Cultural History
- ISBN 13: 9780880335744 ISBN 10: 0880335742
- Sales rank: 1,174,418
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Full description for Patterns of Exclusion
Drawing on historical and demographic data from the past 150 years, Ivan Szelenyi and Janos Ladanyi examine how the social conditions of the Roma (Gypsies) has changed over time and across countries. While Gypsies always tended to be poor and at the margins of society, the depth and nature of their poverty and the ways they were excluded varied substantially. In addition to providing a detailed history of these changes, the book also contributes to debates regarding Gypsies' status as part of an underclass. The historical case studies show that during the nineteenth century Gypsies belonged to the lower class, during the interwar years they could be seen as a lower caste, and it is only during the last two decades that they are in the process of becoming an underclass. The underclass debate has so far been framed in ideological terms. This book's main aim is to turn this ideological controversy into an analytic project: under what socioeconomic conditions is a social group's situation sufficiently different from earlier times? Is its exclusion from society sufficiently rigid that underclass is the concept that best describes its condition?
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