Migration and mobility among Roma as a resource to gain social capital

Abstract

In the last three decades Roma are the group with high percent of unemployment, poverty and illiteracy. Accession of Bulgaria in European Union facilitates transnational labor migration and a lot of Roma people choose to work abroad as a livelihood strategy. This leads to accumulation of new life experience and economic, social and mental changes at individual and community level. The obvious changes for observers are improvement in economic well-being and lifestyle. However more important and valuable are the changes in attitudes, traditional practices, expectations for life and social hierarchies connected to the new cultural, social and symbolic capital that comes through social transfers.

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