Session Information
25 SES 11, Working With Roma and Migrant Children: Ethical and Methodological Issues
Parallel Paper Session
Contribution
We present the main provisionally results of one Workpackage of the research project PERARES: Public Engagement with Research and Research Engagement with Society, from the 7th Framework Program of the European Commission, applied in Spain.
The main objective of the research work is to enter into research co-operation with Civil Society Organizations (CSO) on Roma/Travellers’ issues, share existing knowledge and articulate research needs in such a way that makes it possible to monitor and learn from the engagement process. All the participants in the research (representing Hungary, UK and Spain) will invite local CSOs, researchers, concerned citizens and centres of research to join in the pilot activities.
The research work developed in Spain has the main objective to initiate new processes of actively engaging CSOs in many steps of local human rights research, so that the research matches the community’s needs, particularly the needs of minority groups, in order to ensure that the most urging R&D concerns are addressed and that research will have more significant policy relevance concerning progressive changes in human rights both in a local and a European context.
The problem definition and developed actions (the basis to work on the Pilot Project), have been defined in continuous meetings with the Roma associations and with the advisory council of the Roma Centre Studies (CEG). The target group of the pilot project is the Roma people in Spain. There is a special interest in non-academic Roma women because of the triple situation of inequality they suffer – for being women, Roma and not having had access to education.
The research and other actions regarding Roma have often ignored their voice and participation and in many cases the results have only increased their exclusion (Flecha et al. 2004). In Catalonia in the recent years there has been a considerable progress in including Roma in the research. On 21 November the Catalan parliament passed unanimously a resolution recognizing the identity of the Roma people (Resolution 1046/VI, 2001).
Taking into account this situation in Spain, the Pilot Project was aimed at identifying 3 problems and contributing to the development, analysis and evaluation of the actions implemented to overcome these problems. The problems are:
- Need for a regulatory framework to guarantee that is not possible to realize a research project on Roma without their agreement and support, as well as without their participation in the design, implementation and the evaluation of the project.
- The Roma people suffer a serious educational exclusion as a result of centuries of marginalization and segregating educational practices. This exclusion is limiting their possibilities to develop academically, as well as socially and in the area of labour.
- Exclusion of non-academic Roma women from spaces of participation, public debate and decision-making.
Method
Expected Outcomes
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