The Roma in European higher education recasting identities, re-imagining futures

"Today, between 10 and 12 million Roma live in Europe, comprising the continent's largest ethnic minority. However, only 1% participate in higher education. Although the Roma are widely dispersed across Europe, and beyond, they face similar social, political, and economic challenges throug...

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Other Authors: Morley, Louise (Editor), Mirga, Andrzej (Editor), Redzepi, Nadine Levy (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Bloomsbury Academic 2020, 2020
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Collection: Bloomsbury Education and Childhood Studies - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Forward / Ethel Brooks (Rutgers University, USA)
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Theories, Resources, Policy and Professional Interventions for Challenging Roma Exclusion from Higher Education. 1. Thinking Differently about the Roma in Higher Education: Beyond Sex, Slums and Special Schools, and Towards Epistemic Inclusion / Louise Morley (Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER), University of Sussex, UK)
  • 2. The Roma Education Fund and Higher Education among Roma: Lessons Learned and Future Priorities / Andrzej Mirga and Nadir Redzepi (Roma Education Fund, Budapest, Hungary)
  • 3. The European Discourse of Inclusion Policies for Roma in Higher Education: Racialised Neoliberal Governmentality in Semi Peripheral Europe / Daniel Leyton (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile)
  • 4. Higher Education Expansion, Roma Access and Neoliberal Globalization / Spyros Themelis (University of East Anglia, UK)
  • 5. Capability Strengthening and Knowledge Production / Paul Roberts (Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research (CHEER), University of Sussex, UK)
  • 6. Creating Knowledge about the Roma in Higher Education / Iulius Rostas and Simona Torotcoi (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary)
  • Part 2. Focus on Europe: Examples of What is Going on in Greece, the Nordic Countries, Serbia, Spain, and the UK? 7. Roma in Spanish Higher Education after Three Decades of National Plans for Roma Inclusion / Teresa Padilla Carmona, José González-Monteagudo, University of Seville, Spain, and Sandra Heredia Fernández (FAKALI, Federation of Roma Women Associations, Spain)
  • 8. Higher Education in Nordic Roma and Traveller Policy Documents / Jenni Helakorpi, University of Helsinki, Finland, and Ulpukka Isopahkala-Bouret (University of Turku, Finland)
  • 9. Widening Access of Roma in the Global Knowledge Economy in Serbia / (Tanja Jovanovic, CEU Harvard University, USA)
  • 10. Greek Roma in Higher Education / Panagiota Gkofa (University of Ioannina, Greece)