THE IDENTITY OF GYPSY CHILDREN IN FAMILY FOSTER HOMES

Monika Mackinova (), Jana Keketiova () and Marta Vavrcakova ()
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Monika Mackinova: St. Elisabeth University of healthcare and social work, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Jana Keketiova: University of Trnava, Faculty of healthcare and social work, Trnava, Slovak Republic
Marta Vavrcakova: University of Trnava, Slovak Republic

Interdisciplinary Management Research, 2014, vol. 10, 970-980

Abstract: There are gypsy children in institutional care who don’t know their ethnicity at all; they are not in touch with their gypsy parents or other relatives, so they don’t feel to be part of the gypsy culture. This often causes a chaos in their identity, what in the vast majority of cases persists to the adult age. They are raised by non-gypsy educators most of the time. The aim of this thesis is to answer a question whether it is necessary to work with Gypsy children in a different way than with non-gypsy children and whether it’s necessary to develop and enhance their national and ethnic identity in the meaning of positive gypsy traditions.

Keywords: Family foster homes; Foster home educator; Foster home social worker; Gypsy children; Gypsy identity; Gypsy culture; Gypsy way of life; Gypsy craftwork and traditions; Gypsy particularities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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