Hrvoje Å lezak

 

PERCEPCIJA ROMSKOG ETNIÄŒKOG PROSTORA I SOCIJALNA

ISKLJUÄŒENOST

 

DOI: 10.35666/28310438.2020.5.276

UDC: 911.37:711.061]:397(497.5Međimurje)

 

Abstract: Space as a geographical object of research is an integral part of the social exclusion of Roma. On the example of Međimurje, the northernmost county of the Republic of Croatia in which the Roma are the largest national minority, the goal was to explore the perception of the area inhabited by Roma. The survey of the attitudes of members of the majority population about the Roma area and its perception was conducted with the help of a questionnaire on a stratified sample of 245 respondents. The sample was selected to investigate possible spatial differences in the perception of "Roma space" between members of the majority population living near Roma, ie in the same administrative settlement where a Roma settlement exists. The other half of members of the majority population was selected who live further away from Roma where in their administrative settlements Roma settlement does not exists and which are at least 5 km away from the nearest Roma settlement. Physiognomic specifics of Roma settlements, ie the Roma landscape imprint in the space occupied by the Roma, develop a feeling of insecurity, repulsion and fear in the majority of the population. Fear of space and aversion to space is also projected in relation to the social group that occupies that space. The Roma ethnic landscape of spatially segregated and functionally marginalized Roma settlements is becoming one of the causes of social exclusion of Roma and their further marginalization.

Key words: Roma people, Bajash, space, ethnicity, landscape, Međimurje, social exclusion

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