Roma Minority Youth Across Cultural Contexts: Taking a Positive Approach to Research, Policy, and Practice 1st Edition

Roma Minority Youth Across Cultural Contexts: Taking a Positive Approach to Research, Policy, and Practice 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190654061,0190654066,9780190654085, 0190654082

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0190654082
• ISBN-13: 9780190654085
• Author: David Lackland Sam, Laura Ferrer Wreder, Radosveta Dimitrova
  

This book explores Positive Youth Development (PYD) in Roma ethnic minority youth. Standing apart from current volumes, this book focuses on the Roma ethnic minority — one of the most marginalized and oppressed minority groups in Europe — and on strengths and resources for optimal well-being in the community. The international and multidisciplinary contributors to this book address the complexities of Roma life in a variety of cultural settings, exploring how key developmental processes and person-context interactions can contribute to optimal and successful adaptation. The conclusions clarify how the PYD of ethnic minority children and youth may be fostered based on the empirical findings reported in the volume. The book draws on core theoretical models of PYD and theories of normative development from the perspective of developmental science to highlight the applicability of these frameworks to Roma groups. With a special focus on cultural, contextual, and socio-economic characteristics of Roma, this project also aims to provide a better understanding of what does and what does not contribute to the success of youth in oppressed minority groups.

Table contents:

1. The Roma Context
2. How Positive Youth Development Can Support Low-Income Roma Youth Living in the United States
3. Engaging Vulnerable Romani Youth in Provision of Early Childhood Services
Part B Theories on Roma Adaptation and Well-Being
4. Actualizing Change with Roma Youth and Their Communities: Theoretical and Conceptual Considerations
5. Roma Youth: Positive Development Despite Challenges
Part C Empirical Findings on Positive Youth Development and Well-Being of Roma
6. Positive Youth Development: An Empirical Study of Roma Youth
7. Reframing the Narrative: Revealing Positive Youth Development in the Self-Descriptions of Roma Adolescents
8. Associations Between Social Connectedness and Academic Achievement Among Roma Youth in Eastern Europe
9. Youth Development, Education, and Identity: A Case Study of Attitudes Toward Roma Youth in Hungary
10. How a Positive Youth Development Framework Can Improve Lives of Excluded People: The Case of Low-Income Roma Youth in Serbia
11. Out of the Margins: Reflections on Roma and Youth Development
12. Roma Youth Development in Context: What Next?

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