Ideologies of social differentiation among Transylvanian Gabor Roma

Temporary Migration of Transylvanian Roma to Hungary

The study is focused on the impact that migration has on the communities of origin. The population under study is representative of two categories of Roma who work in the informal economy in Hungary. Some of them are temporarily employed in low skilled jobs, while the others are small traders. The degree of deprivation, the lack of resources (agricultural land, formal jobs) as well as a good kn...

Predictors of health-endangering behaviour among Roma and non-Roma adolescents in Slovakia by gender.

BACKGROUND Roma people are commonly described as having an unhealthy lifestyle-for example, an unhealthy diet, intensive smoking, frequent alcohol consumption and a lack of physical activity. However, data about such health-endangering behaviours among Roma adolescents are scarce and of poor quality. The aim of our study is to assess the occurrence of health-endangering behaviours among Slovak ...

HIV/AIDS risk behaviours among Roma and non-Roma sex workers in Belgrade (Serbia).

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to analyze differences between Roma and non-Roma sex workers (SWs) according to their HIV/AIDS risk behaviors. In this study 91 Roma and 100 non-Roma SWs were included. They offered sex services at Belgrade hot spots during the period 2006-2007. Roma SW were significantly younger and with lower education and they were significantly more often without re...

The Social Position and Fertility of Roma Women

Semiotic Vision of Ideologies

A semiotic theory of systems derived from language would have the purpose of classifying all the systems of linguistic expression: philosophy, ideology, myth, poetry, art, as much as the dream, lapsus, and free association in a pluridimensional matrix that will interact with many diversified fields. In each one of these discourses it is necessary to consider a plurality of questions, the essenc...