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LIFE PROSPECTS IN VIEWS OF YOUNG ROMA: THE CZECH AND BULGARIAN CASES
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Youth unemployment has been recognised by the EC as one of the most serious issues to be tackled in the upcoming programming period [1] for its extremely high levels across the EU-28 resulting in 5.4 million jobless Europeans aged bellow 25. The number of young people that are not employed, not in education and not in training (NEETs) is even higher, i.e. 7.5 million in age between 15 and 24. Two key risk factors have been identified for becoming a NEET – disadvantage and disengagement [2]. These occur more often among youth from families suffering from poverty, with unemployed parents, disabled youth or youth with ethnic origins. Despite featuring different youth unemployment and NEET rates [2], the two countries chosen for this study – Bulgaria and the Czech Republic – are both home to quite large numbers of young people with Romany origin that live more often than other groups of young people in the above mentioned disadvantaged conditions. The central issue of the proposed paper is to present the views of young Romany people on the education, employment and their future life prospects. The undertaken research investigates what problems and barriers young Roma encounter in education and the labour market entry and what are their strategies for transition from school to work. The role of public policies in supporting young Roma will be assessed in the light of their perceptions and strategies. The research is based on 90 interviews and 5 focus groups organised with Roma youth in age from 16 to 30. Data collection took place in the selected deprived neighbourhoods in Sofia (Bulgaria) and Brno (Czech Republic) in spring 2014. This research has been carried out within the CITISPYCE project funded by the FP7of the European Union for Research and Technology Development.
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