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Roma Minority Youth Across Cultural Contexts CHILD DEVELOPMENT IN CULTURAL CONTEXT Series Editors Cynthia Garcia Coll Peggy Miller Advisory Board Jerome Kagan Carol Worthman Barrie Thorne books in the series: Perfectly Prep: Gender Extremes at a New England Prep School Sarah A. Chase Academic Motivation and the Culture of Schooling Cynthia Hudley and Adele E. Gottfried Immigrant Stories: Ethnicity and Academics in Middle Childhood Cynthia Garcia Coll and Amy Kerivan Marks In a Younger Voice: Doing Child- Centered Qualitative Research Cindy Dell Clark Developing Destinies: A Mayan Midwife and Town Barbara Rogoff Bridging Multiple Worlds: Cultures, Identities, and Pathways to College Catherine R. Cooper Literacy and Mothering: How Women’s Schooling Changes the Lives of the World’s Children Robert A. LeVine, Sarah E. LeVine, Beatrice Schnell-A nzola, Meredith L. Rowe, and Emily Dexter The Culture of Child Care: Attachment, Peers, and Quality in Diverse Communities Edited by Kay E. 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It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2021 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Dimitrova, Radosveta, 1977– editor. | Sam, David L., editor. | Ferrer-Wreder, Laura, editor. Title: Roma minority youth across cultural contexts : taking a positive approach to research, policy, and practice / edited by Radosveta Dimitrova, David Lackland Sam, Laura Ferrer-Wreder. Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021] | Series: Child development in cultural context | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021023954 (print) | LCCN 2021023955 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190654061 (hardback) | ISBN 9780190654085 (epub) | ISBN 9780190654092 Subjects: LCSH: Youth, Romani—Europe—Social conditions. | Romanies—Europe—Social conditions. | Minority families—Europe. | Youth development—Europe. Classification: LCC DX145 .R656 2021 (print) | LCC DX145 (ebook) | DDC 305.8914/9704—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021023954 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021023955 DOI: 10.1093/ oso/ 9780190654061.001.0001 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Integrated Books International, United States of America To Fons van de Vijver exceptional mentor and scholar Contents Foreword: A Vision for Promoting Positive Development Among Roma Youth ix Richard M. Lerner Contributors xiii Introduction xv Radosveta Dimitrova, David L. Sam, and Laura Ferrer- Wreder PART A THE CURRENT SITUATION OF ROMA 1. The Roma Context 3 Carmen Buzea and Radosveta Dimitrova 2. How Positive Youth Development Can Support Low- Income Roma Youth Living in the United States 16 Marija Bingulac 3. Engaging Vulnerable Romani Youth in Provision of Early Childhood Services 29 Stanislav Daniel PART B THEORIES ON ROMA ADAPTATION AND WELL-B EING 4. Actualizing Change with Roma Youth and Their Communities: Theoretical and Conceptual Considerations 45 Carolyn Cass Lorente and Laura Ferrer- Wreder 5. Roma Youth: Positive Development Despite Challenges 63 Pasquale Musso, Cristiano Inguglia, Michele Mannoia, and Alida Lo Coco PART C EMPIRICAL FINDINGS ON POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND WELL- BEING OF ROMA 6. Positive Youth Development: An Empirical Study of Roma Youth 87 Nora Wiium and Fitim Uka viii Contents 7. Reframing the Narrative: Revealing Positive Youth Development in the Self-D escriptions of Roma Adolescents 109 Deborah J. Johnson, Barbara Thelamour, Sudha Sankar, and Radosveta Dimitrova 8. Associations Between Social Connectedness and Academic Achievement Among Roma Youth in Eastern Europe 133 Amina Abubakar, Radosveta Dimitrova, Delia Stefenel, Fitim Uka, Skerdi Zahaj, Paul Murimi, and Fons van de Vijver 9. Youth Development, Education, and Identity: A Case Study of Attitudes Toward Roma Youth in Hungary 156 Jekatyerina Dunajeva 10. How a Positive Youth Development Framework Can Improve Lives of Excluded People: The Case of Low- Income Roma Youth in Serbia 175 Marija Bingulac 11. Out of the Margins: Reflections on Roma and Youth Development 197 Peter Vermeersch 12. Roma Youth Development in Context: What Next? 207 David L. Sam, Laura Ferrer- Wreder, and Radosveta Dimitrova Index 221 Foreword A Vision for Promoting Positive Development Among Roma Youth Richard M. Lerner The study of human development is in the midst of a genuine paradigm change. Replacing Cartesian notions that generated meta-t heories splitting nature from nurture and that led to reductionist, essentialist, and mecha- nist models of human behavior and development, a process- relational par- adigm has come to the fore of developmental science. This paradigm focuses on process (systematic changes in the developmental system), becoming (moving from potential to actuality), holism (the meanings of entities and events derive from the context in which they are embedded), and relational analysis (assessment of the mutually influential relations within the devel- opmental system) (Overton, 2015). Within the process-r elational paradigm, the individual is seen as inherently active, self-c reating (autopoietic), self- organizing, self- regulating (agentic), nonlinear and complex, and adaptive (Overton, 2015). A relational developmental systems (RDS) meta- theory is derived from this paradigm, and it emphasizes that the integration of levels of organization ranging from biology and physiology to culture and history is a means to describe, explain, and optimize life span human development. Accordingly, models derived from RDS meta- theory emphasize the course across life of mutually influential relations between a specific individual and his or her specific context, represented as individual ↔ context relations; these rela- tions are the fundamental (basic) process of human development (Lerner, 2018, 2021). Proponents of RDS-b ased theories do not deny that there may be nom- othetic or group/ differential contributions to the variance of human
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