| Tartalmi leírás: |
The study summarises the author?s
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eld experience regarding the most widespread liveli-
hood strategies among the Romanian Gabor Roma. Through a series of examples, it demonstrates how
Gabor traders adapt ? most of them successfully ? to the new economic and social challenges that have
emerged in the post-socialist transformation. The study also outlines and analyses how the politics of eth-
nicity is employed in their livelihood strategies. It aims to make the economic practices through which the
Gabors earn their living more ?visible? (thereby demystifying the process of ?production?) and to coun-
terbalance and complement the dominance of ?consumption? which characterised the author?s earlier
studies concerning the prestige economy of the Gabor Roma. Furthermore, the study may help to decon-
struct negative ethnic stereotypes regarding the work ethic of the Roma, such as ?Roma are lazy?, and, as
a result, it may contribute to the destigmatisation of Roma in everyday ? media and other ? discourses.
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| Azonosító: |
Berta, Péter (2014) Intermediate Trade, Migration, and the Politics of Ethnicity : Economic Strategies among Romanian Gabor Roma. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 59 (1). pp. 43-67. ISSN 1216-9803
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