Development in a Roma family by discourse of social workers in the Czech Republic

Tomas Mrhalek; Zuzana Rimnacova; Alena Kajanova

Volume : IV, Issue : XII, December - 2015

Development in a Roma family by discourse of social workers in the Czech Republic

Tomas Mrhalek, Zuzana Rimnacova, Alena Kajanova

Abstract :

This article describes how social workers identified the development of Czech Roma families to emancipation and gives an insight into the differences in the roles of men and women in society and the family. It deals with the discourse of social workers, gained through three focus groups and objectifies it through 60 interviews with Roma men and Roma women, who are in a relationship. Although the element of equality is more and more emphasized within social life, distinctive inequality between genders is still documented in expert ethnographic literature. The results describe development over previous ethnographic studies. Roma families, where husband and wife are working, have in the majority rather patterns of behavior. Families with unemployed men and women have a socio-economic decline. The role of financial security now belongs to women which receiving social benefits. Roma men in present are losing their main role by this and their role in Roma families is disturbed.