"We don't want to go to the same school with Roma children anymore": Segregation in the Village and the Slovak School System
2017
Abstract
The aim of this article is to explore the dynamics of social marginality and dominance in one locality in western part of the Slovak Republic. Special attention is paid to interethnic coexistence and identity construction process.
The article especially sheds light on many aspects of identity development in school and non-school settings and demonstrates how the process of boundary constructions is influenced by a range of political activities of community councils. The text is based on long-term, qualitative inductive and ethnographic fieldwork.
The research is set within a larger social scale topic of research of integration and segregation tendencies in the Slovak school system.