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Roma in Special Education: Discriminating, Segregating, and Limiting Opportunities to Roma Students by Placing Them in Special Schools

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  • Roth Maria

    (Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, 128 21 Decembrie 1989 Bld., 400604 Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

  • Văetişi Lorena

    (Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, 128 21 Decembrie 1989 Bld., 400604 Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

Abstract

In social and educational practices, a number of ‘negative’ descriptive categories such as minority or disability determines inequalities and deepens the vulnerability of such groups. We focus on the Roma students enrolled in Special Education and analyse the mechanisms of (re)producing stereotypes and discrimination. We interpret qualitative research data, conducted in a technical high-school from Cluj-Napoca. Our study concludes that Roma schoolchildren enrolled in special education, whether or not really disabled are discriminated against (on behalf of an educational practice that reinforces the stigma of an inferior ethnic group, socio-culturally marginalized) and thus, their opportunities are severely limited, since their very youthful years, spent in school education.

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  • Roth Maria & Văetişi Lorena, 2011. "Roma in Special Education: Discriminating, Segregating, and Limiting Opportunities to Roma Students by Placing Them in Special Schools," Social Change Review, Sciendo, vol. 9(2), pages 175-194, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:socchr:v:9:y:2011:i:2:p:175-194:n:4
    DOI: 10.1515/scr-2016-0022
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