ABSTRACT

The newly arrived Roma Slovak community in a large urban city in the north of England has been widely perceived as having a myriad of social problems and there is a conflict with the wider community. This paper presents the results of a project to explore barriers and possibilities for the social and educational integration of newly arrived Roma Slovak migrants in the UK. The research carried out ethnographic fieldwork in a post-16 service for young people, using a CRT approach based on Yosso’s community cultural wealth model. The paper also applies an intersectional analysis and problematises assumptions that portray Roma communities as homogeneous, marginalised, and uncritically family oriented. The findings recover the voices and perspectives of the Roma Slovak community from a critical, though positive, perspective. The Roma Slovak students’ stories that emerged from this research are in stark contrast to the negative stereotypes commonly shared about the community.

摘要

在英格兰北部的一个大城市中，新来的罗姆人斯洛伐克社区被广泛认为存在无数的社会问题，并且与更广泛的社区存在冲突。本文介绍了一个项目的结果，该项目旨在探索英国新抵达的罗姆斯洛伐克移民在社会和教育融合方面的障碍和可能性。该研究使用基于 Yosso 社区文化财富模型的 CRT 方法，在 16 岁后为年轻人服务中进行了民族志实地考察。本文还应用了交叉分析，并对将罗姆人社区描绘为同质、边缘化和不加批判地以家庭为导向的假设进行了质疑。调查结果从一个批判性但积极的角度恢复了罗姆人斯洛伐克社区的声音和观点。