Abstract
The triple exclusion suffered by many Romaní women inEurope(on grounds of gender, ethnicity and, in many cases, low academic level) did not impede that they become today the engine for the transformation to improve their people’s life conditions. This article is based on a documental review on the impact of communicative methodology of research on public policies addressed to the Romani people and also on the improvement of their life conditions. Our analysis focuses specially on the role of Romani women throughout the whole process, in which they have been protagonists and end users at the same. Their communities and society as a whole also took benefit of Romani women’s contributions.
Highlights
The triple exclusion suffered by many Romani women in Europe did not impede that they become today the engine for the transformation to improve their people’s life conditions
This article is based on a documental review on the impact of communicative methodology of research on public policies addressed to the Romani people and on the improvement of their life conditions
Our analysis focuses specially on the role of Romani women throughout the whole process, in which they have been protagonists and end users at the same
Summary
Las mujeres gitanas sufren una situación de desigualdad que ha sido evidenciada en numerosos estudios e informes (European Roma Rights Center, 2004; European Commission (Directorate General for Employment and Social Affairs), 2004; European Commission, 2011a) y que lleva en muchos casos a la exclusión social. El informe de la European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) (2012) destaca que la percepción de las mujeres gitanas de su propio estado de salud es frecuentemente malo o muy malo. El porcentaje en el caso de España corresponde a un 1% de las mujeres gitanas que nunca han acudido a la escuela y un 63% de las mujeres que abandonaron antes de los 16 años. En el caso de los hombres gitanos de entre 16 y 24 años la encuesta fija en un 0% los que nunca han acudido a la escuela y un 38% los que abandonaron prematuramente (European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), 2012). La situación de la mujer gitana que se vislumbra tras estos datos fue calificada por el Parlamento europeo ya en 2005 como “inaceptable” en una resolución donde denuncia los niveles extremos de discriminación, discriminación múltiple o compuesta que presentan las mujeres romaníes en Europa (European Parliament, 2006). Como resultado de la Conferencia de Helsinki, se elaboró la Estrategia para el progreso de las mujeres y niñas gitanas (2014-2020), que reconoce la tradicional exclusión de las mujeres romaníes en los procesos de toma de decisiones de las leyes, políticas y programas, incluyendo aquellos específicamente diseñados para abordar su propia situación (Phenjalipe, 2014)
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