ABSTRACT This article presents data gathered among Bulgarian Romani communities during a project investigating the educational hardship of Roma people. Major social inequalities affect the educational and life chances of Roma students. Despite European Union political frameworks, the perspectives of Roma themselves remain undocumented. This paper addresses this gap by reporting on data from interviews with Roma parents and students, which reveal practices of discrimination racialising Roma in Bulgarian schools. Reporting on modes of racialisation, the author shows the direct impact of experiences of discrimination on Roma students’ educational and career prospects. The findings are relevant to building knowledge of how racialisation, which has shaped the societal discourse surrounding Roma groups, remains integral in contemporary Europe, reinforcing racialised social hierarchies. This article informs further our understanding of the limitations of concentrated political efforts to bring actual change in the lives of Roma if destructive social constructions, such as racialisation, are not sufficiently addressed.

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“他们夹住我们的翅膀”：从罗姆人的角度研究成就和种族化

摘要 本文介绍了在调查罗姆人教育困难的项目期间在保加利亚罗姆人社区中收集的数据。主要的社会不平等影响着罗姆学生的教育和生活机会。尽管有欧盟的政治框架，但罗姆人自己的观点仍然没有记录。本文通过报告对罗姆人家长和学生的采访数据来弥补这一差距，这些数据揭示了保加利亚学校中罗姆人种族歧视的做法。在报告种族化模式时，作者展示了歧视经历对罗姆学生的教育和职业前景的直接影响。这些发现与建立关于塑造了围绕罗姆人群体的社会话语的种族化如何在当代欧洲仍然不可或缺的知识有关，强化种族化的社会等级制度。这篇文章让我们进一步了解，如果种族化等破坏性社会建构没有得到充分解决，集中政治努力为罗姆人的生活带来实际改变的局限性。