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Description of the situation

In comparison with other minorities, the Roma ethnic minority is the only minority at risk of social exclusion. This diagnosis stems from a series of social and cultural factors, whose first step is to decrease the low level of education of this group, which directly affects the lack of qualifications desired in the labour market and thus it affects the situation of the Roma living conditions and health. It is not without significance that there is a hermetic nature of some traditional Roma communities that defend their independence.
No habit of early childhood education and schooling among some Roma meant that successive generations have begun to inherit not only poverty, but also the pattern of the lack of this kind of educational activity and employment, which in turn caused the increasing lack of social acceptance of this group.
The search for a better life, especially after the enlargement of the European Union to include new countries of Central and Eastern Europe, resulted in the migration of the Roma to Western Europe. The migration processes also included a large number of Roma from Poland. At the same time, in Poland they appear to be a relatively small group of immigrants (mostly Romanian and Bulgarian Roma).
The integration of the Roma in the local environment is a particularly difficult process.
The essence of integration is cooperation and coexistence in harmony in general diverse social groups in every respect: culturally, socially and economically. The culture of the Roma community is limited, and in some cases it even eliminates cultural integration. Increasing the participation of the Roma in the education system and the labour market, as well as improving housing infrastructure and health status is a chance to bring this ethnic group closer to the standards which characterize the participation in various spheres of the social life of other population groups.

 

The reasons for the bad situation of the Roma are complex. The centuries-old isolation of this group, having the character of both being culturally motivated by self-isolation and the barriers created by the majority population, is the reason why so far the Roma are not integrated socially. The consequence of this isolation is an inadequate level of knowledge about the Roma among the majority population, and hence, a high level of distrust towards this group. A different lifestyle, system of values, aversion to institutionalized education and the lack of constant work cause a high level of distance towards the Roma (although the level of social hostility towards the Roma has been decreasing systematically for years).

 

A major barrier to improving the situation of the Roma is also the cultural factor. A continuing lack of acceptance of institutionalized education of the children and youth in orthodox circles, resulting in a high degree of the abandonment of school education in the early stages of education, especially for girls, acceptable low eligibility age to start a family, low educational level, preventing proper diagnosis and using mechanisms for smooth functioning in the modern world mean that part of the Roma remains on the margins of the contemporary society.

 

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