TURC, ROM, MUSULMAN SAU CLASĂ MUNCITOARE? EFECTELE POLITICILOR REGIMULUI COMUNIST ÎNTR-O COMUNITATE URBANĂ DE ROMI TURCI MUSULMANI DIN DOBROGEA
TURKISH, ROMAN, MUSLIM OR WORKING CLASS? EFFECTS OF COMMUNIST REGIME POLICIES IN AN URBAN MUSLIM ROMA COMMUNITY IN DOBROGEA

Summary/Abstract: My research is part of a direction regarding the current situation of the Turkish Muslin Roma in the national states from the Balkans, created after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. and it is putting forward the description of a Muslim Roma Turkish-speaking community in a postsocialist city of Medgidia (Mecidiye) situated in the South-Eastern region of Dobruja. The specific objective of the research is to explore the intersection between memory and identity and the attempt to identify the way in which the political, economic and social changes of the Communist period were reflected in the ethnic and religious identity structure of the Turkish Muslim Roma community of Medgidia. Exploring the memory of communism, life-histories led our research towards the perspective of nostalgia, understood as a type of memory, a re-creation of the past that goes beyond the mere recovery, reaching political, ideological, socio-economic and personal dimensions related also to the present needs and to desires of the future.

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