Economic strategies and migratory trajectories of Vlax Roma from Eastern Slovakia to Leicester, UK

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F17%3A10366416" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/17:10366416 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.26363/SN.2017.4.01" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.26363/SN.2017.4.01</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.26363/SN.2017.4.01" target="_blank" >10.26363/SN.2017.4.01</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Economic strategies and migratory trajectories of Vlax Roma from Eastern Slovakia to Leicester, UK

Original language description

The article is based on long term field research and focuses on a community of family-related Vlax Roma from the Prešov, Sabinov and Košice regions who created a large community in Leicester, UK. The massive wave of labour migration to UK started in 2004, in the year of Slovakia&apos;s accession to the European Union. The migration to Great Britain has been based on family networks and represents an example of chain migration based on the reciprocal help of family networks. Besides their own relatives other different non-related Roma intermediaries had an important influence on their arrival to Britain. The article focuses on the changing economic strategies of new migrants from the group in focus after their replacement to UK. In the years following Slovak accession to the EU, the prospective Romani migrants explored many illegal paths to arrive to Britain in their struggle for a better life. Approximately after a decade since their arrival, we can find this community as fully integrated into the local British working class, spending their time between my work and my house.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-02702S" target="_blank" >GA15-02702S: The Migration of the Roma from the Czech and the Slovak Republics to the United Kingdom and Canada</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Slovenský národopis

ISSN

1335-1303

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2017

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

357-382

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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