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Being Fair, Faring Better

Promoting Equality of Opportunity for Marginalized Roma

By: Roberta Gatti,Sandor Karacsony,Kosuke Anan,Celine Ferré,Carmen de Paz Nieves,Valerie Morrica,Carmen de Paz,Abla Safir

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Being Fair, Faring Better

Promoting Equality of Opportunity for Marginalized Roma

By: Roberta Gatti,Sandor Karacsony,Kosuke Anan,Celine Ferré,Carmen de Paz Nieves,Valerie Morrica,Carmen de Paz,Abla Safir

In Central and Eastern European countries, inequalities for Roma families living in marginalized communities start early and are striking. Some of these inequalities reflect hard-wired family circumstances such as being born in poverty. Others reflect lack of opportunities such as limited access to those basic goods and services that are necessary not only for realizing one's potential in life, but also for living with dignity. Gaps between Roma and non-Roma widen over the lifecycle in a way that reinforces and perpetuates disadvantage and translates into significantly unequal outcomes, despite the fact that Roma report having similar aspirations to those of their non-Roma neighbors. Promoting equal opportunities for disadvantaged Roma is not only an imperative for societies that want to call themselves fair, but it is also a smart economic choice, especially in those countries where populations are aging rapidly. Investing early, with a particular emphasis on supporting healthy and cognitive development for disadvantaged Roma children, is likely to go a long way in promoting fair chances. However, leveling the playing field in childhood is likely not enough: disadvantaged Roma continue being exposed to unequal opportunities at key nodes in their lives, such as when pursuing education or when looking for a job. Therefore, it is as important that a broader set of policies address some of the circumstances in which a large share of Roma children grow up, including access to employment and decent living conditions for their families. Implementing interventions that help overcome these interrelated barriers will require strong ownership at the national level, coordinated policies across different ministries and government levels, and an integrated delivery system that is grounded in approaches that are customized to local conditions and implemented in a participatory manner. Good practices in Europe and elsewhere show that inclusion of the most disadvantaged - including many Roma - is possible and the current programming cycle for European Funds represents a unique opportunity to fund such interventions.

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World Bank Publications

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1464806195

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Kissing the Mango Tree

Puerto Rican Women Rewriting American Literature

By: Carmen Socorro Rivera

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Kissing the Mango Tree

Puerto Rican Women Rewriting American Literature

By: Carmen Socorro Rivera

Pioneering novelist and short-story writer Nicholasa Mohr broke onto the literary scene of ethnic autobiography in the early 1970s, but it took another decade for other Puerto Rican women writers in the United States to follow the path that she cut. From the late 1970s on, a dynamic group of these writers have expanded the landscape of American literature. Kissing the Mango Tree is the first and only book to examine the works of the most popular Puerto Rican women writers from the perspective of feminist literary criticism. Rivera reconstructs the ethno-feminist aesthetic of Judith Ortiz Cofer, Sandra María Esteves, Nicholasa Mohr, Aurora Levins Morales, Rosario Morales, Esmeralda Santiago, and Luz María Umpierre-Herrera. In separate chapters dedicated to each of these writers, the author locates their works within the framework of feminist theory and literature, seeing them as "women with macho asserting their creative powers to record their own versions of their memories, to own their own bodies. . . They transform the way we look at the process of growing up and becoming a woman, at the relationship with our mothers and our daughters, at the fluidity of our lives, at our notions of nationhood . . ." This groundbreaking study is accompanied by a complete bibliography of the six writers' works and secondary sources of feminist, Latino, and ethno-poetic criticism and theory.

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Arte Publico Press

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1611921910

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9781611921915

Being Fair, Faring Better

Promoting Equality of Opportunity for Marginalized Roma

By: Roberta Gatti,Sandor Karacsony,Kosuke Anan,Celine Ferré,Carmen de Paz Nieves,Valerie Morrica,Carmen de Paz,Abla Safir

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Being Fair, Faring Better

Promoting Equality of Opportunity for Marginalized Roma

By: Roberta Gatti,Sandor Karacsony,Kosuke Anan,Celine Ferré,Carmen de Paz Nieves,Valerie Morrica,Carmen de Paz,Abla Safir

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Being Fair, Faring Better

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