Ábel BereményiUniversity of Barcelona | UB · Faculty of Education
Ábel Bereményi
PhD in Social Anthropology
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Introduction
Ábel Bereményi is an assistant professor of Education, trained as a social anthropologist, with research interests focusing on minorities (Roma/Gypsy), children/youth, and social inequalities mainly in the domains of education and labour market. Recently he has conducted investigations on the individual effects of the education driven social mobility, among young people from minority groups; as well as, on their school-to-work transition.
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September 2019 - September 2021
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Publications (47)
This article explores how first-in-family-graduate Roma and nonRoma Hungarians from the working-class experience educationdriven social mobility and reconcile the dislocation of their primaryhabitus due to changing class through transiting a 'third space'. Drawing on Bhabha's and bell hooks' development of this concept, we aim to unpack the differe...
This report includes the ethnographic accounts from the South European region of the TRANSGANG project. Following the initial project design, the somewhat broader core case of Barcelona has been enriched through the contrast cases of Madrid, Milan and Marseille. The project follows the distinction between “major transnationalism” (or transnationali...
Informe publicado por Barcelona Activa (Ayuntamiento de Barcelona)
Dipòsit legal: B 5550-2023
Els objectius d’aquest estudi són conèixer les estratègies formatives i ocupacionals de la joventut gitana de Barcelona, detectar les seves necessitats en aquest àmbit i identificar i analitzar les polítiques, els programes i les mesures corresponents, pe...
Este artículo reflexiona acerca de los dilemas de aspiración de las personas gitanas españolas en su transición de la escuela al trabajo (TET). El estudio de la TET de los jóvenes gitanos arroja luz sobre las desigualdades sociales y económicas de la sociedad española. Los dilemas de aspiración académicos y ocupacionales revelan aspectos de la inte...
Investigar experiencias de transición entre fases de la vida, particularmente en momentos de cambios profundos, ayuda a comprender las estructuras y las relaciones más profundas de las sociedades (Walther et al., 2022). Mientras que la juventud, la adultez y la vejez se distinguían claramente a mediados del siglo XX, más adelante la adultez se ha e...
This paper enquires into how disadvantaged Hungarian Roma youth make decisions concerning their educational and early career trajectories, who guides them, and whether the main guidance agents and services are available to them particularly at the time of their school-to-work transition (STWT). Data was collected in a Hungar-ian city and its surrou...
Today, European societies are often described as superdiverse, in order to define the ethnic,
cultural and religious pluralism that results from decades of immigration. Simultaneously, Europe
appears to be evermore polarized in its approach to migration and diversity. Xenophobic currents
in political and public debates gain presence across the cont...
European history is to a significant extent also a history about racialization and racism. Since the colonizers of past centuries defined boundaries between “civilized” and “savages” by applying value standards in which the notions of race, ethnicity, culture, and religion were interwoven and imposed on human beings perceived as fundamentally diffe...
This paper investigates the self-narratives of academically high-achieving, first generation college educated, and highly resilient Roma women. We place their meaning making and social navigation processes at the centre of our inquiry, understanding it as an important element of the resilience process of upward mobility (Ungar 2012). Self-narrative...
This study offers a preliminary analysis of the municipal socio-cultural mediation service aimed at the Roma population of a city, and specifically seeks to understand to what extent this intervention favours the school-to-work transition (STWT) of Roma youth.
This data exploitation is part of a larger two-year-long, cross country comparative proje...
This paper discusses Romani mentors’ mixed experiences, views and coping practices in an intra-ethnic ‘natural mentoring’ project targeting young Romani (more commonly known as ‘Gypsy’) students in Spain. The intervention transforms already existing intra-ethnic bonds into mentorships in local Spanish Romani communities. To meet the aims of this re...
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This chapter explores the upward social mobility trajectories, and the corollary prices of them for those 45, first-in-family college educated Roma in Hungary who come from socially disadvantaged and marginalised family and community background. We argue that among the academically high-achieving participants o...
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This article focuses on peer mentoring, and specifically on the work carried out in Catalonia (Spain) between the Autonomous University of Barcelona (EMIGRA-CER Migraciones) and the Federation of Roma Associations in Catalonia (FAGIC), under the framework of the STORY_S project funded by EC's DG Justice. Using the data obtained, our aim was to iden...
Előadásom témája a roma fiatalok átlépése az iskolából a munkába, s ezen belül az orientáció szerepe.
Background
Whilst some Roma children thrive, many experience poor health, housing and nutrition. This is linked to antigypsyism, economic inequalities, poor experiences of healthcare and other denials of social citizenship. Children globally are demonstrating about climate change, an issue of particular importance to those Roma children living in t...
Desde el estallido de la crisis económica la vulnerabilidad socioeconómica se ha ido agravando, tanto en cantidad de familias cuyas fuentes de ingresos han disminuido como en la gravedad de la situación, llegando a cronificar la pobreza en determinados sectores sociales. Las ejecuciones hipotecarias han provocado serias dificultades para cubrir nec...
Desde el estallido en 2008 de la burbuja inmobiliaria y financiera experimentada en España durante los primeros años del siglo XXI, el sobreendeudamiento hipotecario representa una preocupación para muchas familias en un contexto de ‘nueva pobreza’ caracterizada por el desempleo masivo, y políticas de austeridad que han conducido a muchas personas...
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This article discusses how the call for families’ active participation in school can be understood as a form of regulatory act producing neoliberal subjectivities based on responsibility, entrepreneurship and rational calculation. Our analysis draws on the results of two p...
The article investigates the youth transitions of a group of Romanian Roma adolescents with different im/mobility experiences but originating from the same transnational rural village. Their post-compulsory education orientations and development of autonomous im/mobility projects are anything but homogeneous; nevertheless, they all develop halfway...
Optimistic views about the capacity of the educational system to retain a higher
proportion of youngsters at risk of dropping out and early school leaving (ESL)
resulting in appalling rates of youth unemployment since 2007 in Spain have
proved to be based on weak grounds. Despite recent improvements since 2015,
both ESL and youth unemployment rates...
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This article examines the school choices of families who have recently experienced downward mobility during the economic crisis in Spain. Based on semi-structured interviews we analyse the educational strategies of the families in a Bourdieusian framework, focusing on how they c...
Este capítulo se centra en la vivencia de movilidad social a través de trayectorias académicas de éxito entre jóvenes gitanos. Los discursos públicos celebran, a menudo acríticamente, los logros de estas personas presentando sus casos para demostrar que si los méritos individuales se ponen en juego la sociedad lo recompensa debidamente. Las palabra...
This paper aims to inquire into the potential of active labour market policies (LMP) to reach out to unemployed Roma population in Hungary and in Spain. While in Hungary unemployed Roma people are mainly thought to be reached through mainstream measures, Spain represents a more complex regime with an emphasis on ethnically targeted programmes. Our...
The inclusion of participation rights in the
1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of
the Child (UN CRC) promotes the right, independent
of age, for all citizens to actively express
their opinion and take part in decisions
regarding all aspects of their lives. The UN Committee
on the Rights of the Child (UNComRC),
the Council of Europe’s str...
This study (The study has been developed under the framework of an FP7 research project, RESL.Eu – Reducing Early School Leaving in Europe (Project scheme: SSH-2012-1; number: 320223).) aims to contribute to a line of research initiated at the beginning of the twenty-first century that inquired into the conditions that favoured the academic success...
The guide has been created by Barry Percy-Smith, Cath Larkins and Ábel Bereményi, based on contributions from young people and project workers involved in the project from Spain,. We would like to thank all of the young people and professionals who contributed their ideas to create this shared learning resource. The content of this manual does not...
During the past decade, Gitano students’ school success and its cultural, social and emotional consequences have been largely unexplored, particularly in a new context: the deep economic crisis in Spain. This study reviews and analyses the evolution of the research production and the changing contexts of policy trends affecting the ‘Roma education...
There has been much debate about the practice of historic and contemporary
nomadism in different European states. However, in this article our concern is not
with the 'nomadic tradition of Roma groups' or with contemporary experiences of
mobility, but rather we argue that there is a "nomadization of the Roma culture"
and a parallel trend that ethni...
The aim of this evaluation research is to assess the first six years of the “Comprehensive Plan for the Roma People in Catalonia” (hereafter PIPG according to its initials in Catalan), focused on its planning, implementation and outcomes. For the evaluation, we have collected both qualitative and quantitative data through a mixed methodology by app...
El aumento de la movilidad del alumnado de las etapas preuniversitarias y, en especial, en los niveles de enseñanza obligatoria, se ha considerado una de las problemáticas más destacadas de la última década en España. Los procesos de incorporación del alumnado con movilidad y su gestión se perciben y se tratan de forma diversa desde las administrac...
The increase in student mobility in pre-university education, and especially within compulsory education, has been regarded as one of the most challenging problems in the last decade in Spain. Processes to incorporate students in mobility programmes and the management of their mobility are viewed and addressed differently by regional and local admi...
In this article, we examine the contradictions and lack of consistency between various levels of discourse relating to Roma educational policies. Policy-makers have claimed that political interventions would positively impact the progress of Roma. However, the results have been mixed. We argue here that teachers need to re-evaluate their roles as p...
La economía informal ocupa su lugar en los modelos económicos desde hace relativamente poco. Desde los inicios de los setenta se ha acumulado un cuerpo significativo de trabajos científicos sobre este elemento clave de la organización de recursos y su incidencia en la estructura social. La informalidad, sin embargo, nunca se ha definido de forma in...
