Abstract (eng)
This master thesis examines the displacement of Roma from their homes that began with the transition to capitalism in Romania and its consequences, particularly for gender relations. In contrast to Romania’s state socialist period before 1989, whose ideology aimed at nationalization and equality, opposed class and cultural differences and rejected slums as well as magnificent buildings, the political-economic and social transformation and especially the privatization and commodification of housing and land in post-socialism led to considerable inequality of living conditions and to the displacement and spatial segregation of many people in need, especially Roma. In many places, the spatial displacement resulted in the establishment of informal Roma settlements in spatially and socially marginalized areas, which went hand in hand with the revival of traditional Roma communities. At the same time, this was associated with the retraditionalization of gender relations in the Roma community, which has hardly been reflected in public and academic discourse to date, and which for Roma women meant strengthened patriarchal role attributions, increased social control, additional care work and spatial isolation.