Em termos conclusivos e procurando sistematizar as principais linhas de força que estruturaram este livro, primeiramente podemos afirmar que embora haja um número crescente de jovens ciganos/as nas escolas públicas portuguesas e no ensino secundário, e que estamos perante a geração mais qualificada, este quantitativo fica muito aquém do que seria esperado. As mudanças acontecem, lentamente, sendo ainda circunsc...
The employability of the Portuguese Roma, or Ciganos, is one of the major challenges that arises in contemporary Portuguese society, being transversal to other European countries, since a part of this population lack the necessary school and professional qualifications for their integration in the labour market. Employment and professional training centres can operate as institutional mediators between the Ciga...
As imagens e representações sobre as pessoas ciganas em Portugal são estereotipadas e homogeneizantes. Contudo, há casos diferenciados de percursos de vida, vários tipos de famílias (casamentos endogâmicos e mistos), grupos de origem, culturas regionais ou modos de vida e de integração social. Partindo da diversidade de processos de socialização, de acordo com contextos sociais e familiares de pessoas ciganas, ...
The COVID-19 pandemic forced the Portuguese government to declare various lockdowns between 2020 and 2022. The first State of Emergency was enforced in March 2020, in which face-to-face classroom teaching was repeatedly interrupted. At that time, families were expected to provide the necessary supplies for digital learning, with some support from the government, municipalities, civil society, and local institut...
Portuguese Roma/Ciganos face different forms of negative reactions; they are marginalized, live in precarious socio-economic conditions, and are the poorest in Portugal and in the European Union (EU), as shown by the reports of the European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). Despite national and European strategies, these situations continue, with the proliferation of racist demonstrations and hate crimes, an...
Com este capítulo pretende-se dar a conhecer algumas das representações que profissionais dos Centros de Emprego e Formação Profissional (CEFP), bem como dos Centros Qualifica, possuem acerca das características de utentes ciganos/as, a sua relação com estes serviços e com o mercado de trabalho. Os CEFP estão enquadrados no Instituto de Emprego e Formação Profissional (IEFP), o serviço público de emprego nacion...
Since higher education qualifications and digital transition are considered key factors for economic development and individual opportunities, distance learning has been presented as a solution to improve the labor force’s skills and employability. However, such links were seldom studied systematically in specific contexts, and doubts exist regarding online programs. Based on the results of three successive fol...
In Portuguese society, some Cigano/Roma women, during their life paths, distance themselves from the Cigano cultural tradition, particularly in regard to marriage, schooling, employment and social life. On the one hand, there is a feeling of attachment to traditional values as family pressure to marry or in relation to gender differentiation; on the other hand, these women express a desire for empowerment auton...
The aim of this article is to contribute to the analysis of the structural racism and racialization that exists in Portugal against Roma people. Racialization takes place in various dimensions of life, but we will focus here on issues of schooling and education, which were accentuated during the COVID-19 pandemic and revealed a lack of social deprotection and inequalities between Roma and non-Roma students. Thi...
No quadro europeu de uma aposta estratégica em sociedades cada vez mais escolarizadas e inclusivas, o desafio da presença de diferentes culturas nas escolas requer a implementação de políticas que promovam a não discriminação. No entanto, os ciganos Portugueses constituem-se ainda como um grupo cultural e étnico aparentemente imune aos objetivos destas políticas, em virtude do enorme preconceito social e histór...