Roma Identity and Ritual in the Classroom The Institutional Embedded

This book addresses the dynamics of interethnic relationships in ethnically mixed classrooms in the Czech Republic. The classroom is a space in which the boundaries and meanings of facets of identity such as ethnicity, class and gender are negotiated on a

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roma identity and ritual in the classroom The Institutional Embeddedness of Ethnicity

Roma Identity and Ritual in the Classroom

Jana Obrovská

Roma Identity and Ritual in the Classroom The Institutional Embeddedness of Ethnicity

Jana Obrovská Faculty of Education Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic

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Acknowledgments

This book would not have emerged without the project, Educational Strategies of Migrants and Ethnic Minority Youth (P404/12/1478), financed by the Czech Science Foundation. Thanks to its generous support, I could conduct my research study. However, it offered me much more than only financial support. I had the opportunity to cooperate on this project with my colleagues Lucie Jarkovská, Kateřina Lišková, and Adéla Souralová, who accompanied me along the ethnographic journey and the path toward publishing the results. Our common publications were a source of inspiration for several of my interpretational links in this book and also for the actualization of my own research. The reader will find several references to these publications throughout the book. The greatest thanks belong to these three colleagues. In addition, I am grateful to Associate Professor Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky for numerous consultations on the proposal for this book and language proofreading. She has been an exceptional professional as well as a source of friendly support. Similarly, I e