Publication details
Can We Speak of Ghettos in Czech Cities?
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Slovo |
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| Citation | |
| Web | http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1410207/1/3-17%20can%20we%20speak%20of%20ghettos.pdf |
| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | Roma; ghettos; logic of ghettoization; socially excluded Roma areas |
| Description | This paper covers the processes of ghettoization in socially excluded areas in the Czech Republic that are settled mainly by the Roma. I have attempted to document the logic of ghettoization using the case of an area called Poschla that emerged in Vsetín in 2006. On the basis of semi-structured interviews with inhabitants and social workers, I endeavoured to find out whether Poschla was in the process of ghettoization. From the interviews and other collated data, I searched for signs of ghettoization and social exclusion as we know them from sociological theory, especially drawing from the ideas of L. Wacquant. |