Country of residence

Romania

Brief introduction

Associate Professor, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania

Education

PhD, Philosophy, 2004, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania

Academic profile

I made fieldwork researches on Roma communities from rural Romania starting with 1999, being generally interested in social facts as ethnic identity formation, ethnic, social and residential segregation, social exclusion as well as in the economic strategies of different Roma groups during post-socialism. More precisely, I worked with the Caramidari Roma from Salaj County in 1999, with the Gabor Roma from Mures County in 2007 and with the Ursari Roma from Teleorman county in 2011. As a result of these researches I wrote a number of studies, I gave conferences at different universities (see CV), and I produces a university course with the title “Roma Minority in Central and Eastern Europe” that I taught between 2005 to 2010 at BBU in Cluj and, as invited professor, at UCLA in 2009.

Publications

• The Roma in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe: Marginalization and Resistance, în Journal of the Department of English, Vidyasagar University, no. 1/2009, Medinipur, West Bengal
• Roma Reactive Culture, în Studia Europaea, No. 1/2005, Cluj-Napoca
• A State of Despair: Roma Population During Transition. Transylvanian case studies, în Studia Europaea, XLVII, no. 1-2/ 2002, Cluj-Napoca

Keywords

Marginalization, exclusion, class and ethnic identity, work migration, post-socialism

Contact

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