Alexandra CASTRO

Country of residence

Portugal

Researcher, Dinamia/CET, ISCTE-IUL

PhD candidate with a Scholarship in Urban Anthropology, ISCTE-IUL

National and local policies for Roma in Europe;
Production processes of inequality and marginalization;
Strategies and practices of inclusion, namelly in the field of housing and social policies;
Housing and ways of living, Dynamics of transformation and urban planning and development of territories.

CASTRO, A. (2011) “Ciganos e desigualdades sociais: contributos para a inflexão de políticas públicas de cariz universalista” [Gypsies and social inequalities: contributions to the inflection of universalist nature of public policies], Forum Sociológico, 19 (Forthcoming).
CASTRO, A.; SANTOS, M. (2010) “Na busca de consensos para a promoção da coesão social. O percurso profissional de mediadores municipais ciganos” [In Search of Consensus for the Promotion of Social Cohesion. The career of municipal Roma mediators”, Cidades, Comunidades e Territórios, nº 20-21, pp. 139-154.
CASTRO, A. (2009) “Tsiganes, mobilité et sédentarisme: Quel lieu dans la ville?", Études Tsiganes, n. 39-40, pp. 112-127.

Roma communities, Inter-ethnic coexistance relations, Social exclusion, Public policies