This paper applies the concept of hierarchised mobility to study return migration in Slovakia
in the context of the country's EU accession. The analysis is based on the national Labour …

European countries as well as the European Union are continually striving for comparable
and reliable statistics about Roma, which is a precondition to efficiently support the design …

The Hungarian post-communist welfare state was created under the neoliberal influence of
international organisations while retaining lots of elements of solidarity. The growing social …

Although membership in the European Union (EU) looked like a distant dream to many
Slovaks in the 1990s, a remarkable political and economic makeover around the turn of the …

This chapter contributes to the analysis of gendered and racialized poverty of Roma in East
Central Europe (ECE). Gender and racial inequalities certainly existed under state …

The article describes participation in paid work among Finnish Roma, based on data
gathered by face-to-face interviews for the Finnish Roma Participation and Well-being Study …

This study, theoretically based on integrated threat and image theory, explored (1) the
mental constructs produced by the Slovak majority in relation to cooperation with the Roma …

oma are the largest non-migrant ethnic minority group in Europe and an extremely
vulnerable one. Their population is estimated to be between 9 and 12 million (roughly equal …

In both Central Europe as a whole and in Slovakia, Roma represent a large ethnic minority,
characterised by very poor working and living conditions and poor employment outcomes …

The employment situation of Roma in Europe is dire and has worsened over time (European
Union Agency for Fundamental Rights 2012; Cekota and Trentini 2011). Roma suffer from …