Abstract
This article shows aspects captured in the research conducted at the beginning of 2021 with Roma ethnics from Iasi County and refers to the effects of the pandemic on Roma ethnics. For a start, the paper presents a short history of the Roma, their origins, their migrations around the world, the way they arrived on Romanian territory. The period of slavery of the Roma, their liberation, carried out by the ruler Alexandru Ioan Cuza around 1860, the period of the Holocaust in the Second World War, when due to a racist doctrine adopted by the Romanian State, the Roma were deported and subjected an extermination program, overcoming these unfortunate periods. The article also includes a brief description of the Roma from Iasi County and from the city of Iasi, continuing with the representation of the disease in the Roma; what does the disease mean for the Roma, how can they avoid it, what measures do they take to defend themselves against the disease, what kind of practical medicine. The article presents the research method used, the most suitable for the research group, this being the focus group. The subjects that were chosen for research are described and then the effects of the pandemic on Roma ethnics are presented, on a social, personal and psychological level. What they experienced from a social point of view during the pandemic, how social events unfolded for them, how they related socially; personally, how they managed this challenge from a personal point of view, what changes or improvements caused the pandemic; psychologically the feelings they had, the feelings they tried, the psychological struggle that took place inside them. The conclusions conclude this article by showing what the pandemic meant for the Roma ethnics and how they overcame it.
Highlights
To better understand the mentality of the minority, their culture and attitudes towards diseases, we shall present a short history
On the Romanian territory the Roma arrived as slaves and the first documentary attestation is from 1385 when the prince Dan 1st bequeathed to Vodita Monastery 40 gipsy dwelling places
The Roma people endured a period of slavery on the Romanian soil for over 500 years, when they had no rights whatsoever, there was no question of literacy, they were considered and treated as animals
Summary
The Roma people come from and Indian region called Panceab where they were known as Roma. That’s how they were called by the clergy from Greece when they saw that the Roma were Hindus: they were not yet Christened, they greeted in a different way, they stayed away from people when saluting, they acknowledged all from the distance and, above all, they made spells The priests thought they were impure and this is why they were called atiganos, namely gypsies (UNICEF, 2007). The monasteries, according to the documents from the archives, had the most slaves of all This situation persisted until 1860 when Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza is deciding for the liberation of the Roma people. A significant number of Roma died in Transnistria, others have succeeded to come back at the end of the war, on foot, and most of them were orphan children (Herțanu, 2020) Those who returned managed to integrate, as best they could, as the communist period that followed, even if it succeeded to incorporate all of them, was a forced assimilation
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