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Perception of death in the eyes of young gipsy children
KAŇKOVÁ, Tereza
Title: Perception of death by Romani children of younger school age This thesis deals with perception of death, life after death and funeral rites by Romani children of younger school age. The theoretical part describes how death of a human is generally perceived and how it is perceived by children and the adults. The thesis then characterizes Romani culture and perception of death and life after by Romani people. The aim of the thesis was to identify perception of death and life after death by Romani children of younger school age. The practical part of the thesis utilizes qualitative research strategy applied by means of the semi-structured interview technique complemented by drawing techniques, which however served for getting into contact with the respondent, not for the analysis. The research was performed in the environment of the low-threshold facility V.I.P of the Municipal Charity České Budějovice. The target sample consisted of 10 Romani children of six to twelve years of age. We may say upon the results obtained during the research itself that Romani children do not have identical perception of death and life after death. Although they believe in the existence of heaven and hell their notion is diverse and individual (from positive perception of hell to sole belief in heaven or sole belief in hell). Belief in reincarnation does not occur among the respondents. Death is perceived as personified, sometimes it merges with perception of the god or is perceived naturalistic as a consequence of illness and old age. Soul is also perceived individually, some of the respondents do not believe in soul at all, some believe that soul is the good and only good people have it, for others it is a synonym of the heart. The respondents admit visits of the death in the lives of the alive. Romani people use funeral rites different from those of the majority society, which the children respondents described although not all of them have been at a funeral. The results of my work may be used by social workers involved in work with Romani children and young people. A funeral substantially affects lives of the Romani people and it is necessary for social workers to be sufficiently informed on this event and related habits.
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The informedness of gypsy woman working in sexualbusiness about healt risks of prostitution.
KADLECOVÁ, Lucie
The thesis deals with the life of Romani women providing paid sexual services. The theoretical part describes the basic theoretical background, ie. defines prostitution, describes the motivation leading to the prostitution behaviour, briefly characterizes the forms of prostitution. In addition, it refers to the organizations dealing with the target group and finally deals with the Romani unemployment. The practical part presents the results of a research investigation, which was implemented by partially structured interviews with Romani women providing paid sexual services. It tries to figure out what reasons or motives lead to prostitution behaviour. The output of the practical part is to identify those factors that motivate Romani women to prostitution behaviour most often.
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The Importance of social fieldwork for Romany community in South Bohemian region
KAŠPAROVÁ, Vendula
The Bachelor´s thesis deals with social fieldwork in relationship with Romany users. It is dividend into a theoretical part and an applied part. In the theoretical part there are Romany community, history of this community and problems with social segregation characterised. There are specifics of social fieldwork with Romany minority like the one of possible methods of social work. In the study there are some problem areas in the life of Romanies in the context of social fieldwork. In the last chapter there is mentioned how social fieldwork in South Bohemian region works. The main purpose of the practical part of the thesis was to find out the importance of social fieldwork for Romanies. The research was made through interview in three cities of the South Bohemian region, in Milevsko, Písek and České Budějovice. Both social fieldworkers and their Romany clients were asked questions. The interviews were evaluated in the result presentation and after that summarized in the final discussion.
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Roma child "after school". The importance of Romany culture, family environment, school and informal (outside the family and school) environment for upbringing and educating Romany children.
VOMLELOVÁ, Aneta
Bachelor´s thesis deals with the importance of Romany culture, family, formal and informal environment for upbringing and educating Romany children. In the theoretical part there is first introduced Romany culture as the base of upbringing and educating Romany children. There is also covered raising in Romany family, for example what it means to bring up a child to being Roma and what the differences are between upbringing and educating in Romany family and in majority society. Then the thesis discusses formal educating mainly in kindergarten and primary school, it also deals with the role of teacher, achievements of Romany pupils and tools which make their position better. I used an example of the Community centre for children and youth Cheiron T in Tábor to demonstrate the influence of environment which is outside the family and school. In the practical part there are expressed the views of community and social workers of Cheiron T. The main purpose of my bachelor´s thesis is to find out Romany children´s attitude and motivation to education - how they are influenced by culture, family, school and community centre which they attend. The practical part ends with presentation and interpretation of children´s interviews. At the end of my bachelor´s thesis there is a comparison of children and community workers opinions and my practical experience with the opinions I have found in the literature.
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The ways of Roma people to the asylum house Filia in České Budějovice
CHATRNÁ, Dagmar
This paper concentrates on the reasons of Roma people coming into the Asylum House Filia in Czech Budweis. It briefly describes their separate life journeys, which lead them to the same asylum facility. The theoretical part of this paper describes the Romany lifestyle and the basic data about the Asylum House Filia. The practical part of this paper includes casuistry of the user, in which are briefly summarized the reasons of why Roma come and their separate journeys leading to asylum house. Furthermore, it compares the information attained from this research with the data acquired from authors and the literature referenced.
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The Attitude Analysis of Elementary and Secondary School Students to Romany Population
JANOTA, Pavel
The bachelor thesis briefly describes the fundamental of the attitudes and their formation. It informs the reader about a present situation of Romanies in the Czech Republic, predicates and shortly describes certain problems that Romanies deal with in particular parts of their lives. The theoretical part also briefly describes main aspects of the relation between the majority society and Romanies, informs the reader about a media presentation of Romanies and their present situation and points out the extreme form of the relation of the majority society to Romanies. The practical part contains a respondent informedness analysis about Romanies, their history and present situation and a respondent experience analysis with Romanies. Then there is an analysis of mutual relation among the pieces of information which the respondents have about Romanies and how they evaluate them afterwards. There is an analysis of mutual relation of the pieces of experience that the respondents have with Romanies and how the respondents evaluate Romanies then. Finally, there is an analysis of the sources where the respondents get their pieces of information about Romanies from. The aim of thesis was to find out the attitudes of the young to the Romany population and to analyze some of the influences which can be formative in this process.
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The role of gypsy mentors in rehabilitating socially excluded families claiming to belong to the Romany minority in the Region of South Bohemia.
NOVÁKOVÁ LOJDOVÁ, Leona
Gypsy mentors deals with lay gypsy persons trained to support and assist gypsy families in their attempts at acquiring social skills needed to tackle difficult situations in life that threaten the proper development of gypsy children and youth. The mentors are members of the gypsy community like their clients and share with them their language and culture. The paper provides a summary of both historical and current aspects of gypsy existence in the Czech Republic, their tribal structure and family lifestyle. Special attention is paid to the issues of social exclusion. A brief account is given of history, mission, objectives, activities and some selected projects of the civic Association for Probation & Mediation in Justice. Moreover, the paper offers a list of principles and areas of activities pursued by the Czech Republic Probation & Mediation Service and by the Department for Social & Legal Protection of Children. The paper aims to explore the issues of field work done by the gypsy mentors (i) in helping the challenged gypsy families threatened with having their children or youngsters taken away to be brought up at care institutions and (ii) in assisting young gypsies put under administrative orders. The practical part of the paper employed the method of a qualitative survey of a case study. The required data were obtained through detailed semi-structured interviews with the mentors followed by the secondary data analyses.
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The Student Opinions of Theological Faculty Southbohemian University in Budweis on the Integration of the Romanies into Society
NEZBEDOVÁ, Jana
The thesis is focused on integration of Roma people into the Czech society. It is composed of two sections: theoretical study and field inquiry. The theoretical study explains basic terminology and goes on to describe relationships between the Roma minority and the Czech majority, the Roma identity, social exclusion of Roma people, integration of Roma people, and its` mechanisms. In its` conclusion, it describes social policy and government programs in the area of Roma integration. The field inquiry comprises of interviews conducted among students. The interviews focused on students` opinions of Roma integration, their personal relationships with Roma people, and their view of social work with Roma people considering the students` future roles as social workers. Interview results are summarized in the final debate.
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The Role of Prejudices in the Work with Romany Youth in Salesian Centres
FUJDLOVÁ, Anna
Bachelor's thesis seeks an answer to the following question. Has the level of ethnological prejudice in interviewed employees of three Salesian Centers incresed or decreased thanks to contact and work with Romany ethnic. Thesis contains theoretical and practical part. First chapter of the Theoretical part clarifies the issue of prejudice. It points out their origin, development, and particularly the conditions leading to the reduction of prejudice. Second chapter deals with the Romany Ethnic, its history and and relationships with majority society. The Practical part includes two research projects and their results. Obtained data leads to conclusion, that majority of interviewed employees does not show an increase of prejudice while working with Romany children and youth. On the contrary, one third of them stated that the level of their prejudice decreases.
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Changes in following the Romani traditions and customs
KVASNIČKOVÁ, Kateřina
This thesis deals with changes in following traditions and customs in the Romani lives and its aim is to map and describe these changes. In its first, theoretical part there is a description of important times in the history of the Romani living on the Czech land, in which the Romani were, often under the threat of loss of their freedom, and sometimes even life, forced to change their lifestyle and adapt themselves to the majority society. The influence of the society was the reason why the Romani stopped following some of their traditions and customs and did not pass them on to the younger generations of the Romani; that is why, with time, many traditions and customs became forgotten. The second, practical part contains interviews with concrete Romani, their assessment and discussion, in which there is a comparison of the information I got with the data gathered by the authors quoted. After assessment of the interviews it is evident that the older Romani and the Romani born before the 1980 are well aware of their traditions and customs and follow some of the traditions in their families. The younger generation, however, are not interested in the traditional life of their ancestors, they do not follow the traditions and customs by themselves; they have adapted their lifestyles and systems of values to the majority society; they often do not consider themselves to be Romani.
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