This chapter highlights the importance of integrating research on positive youth development processes in the most disadvantaged youth groups. The authors focused on Roma youth, representing a prototypical low-status minority group. The first part of the chapter examines the demographics and the socially, politically, and ideologically challenging contexts in which Roma young people are embedded, taking into account the case of Italy, one European country with high anti-Roma sentiments. The second part summarizes the literature that deals with social-psychological factors underlying the developmental functioning and optimal well-being of Roma youth in spite of adversity. The third part focuses on the understudied issue of intervention strategies for oppressed populations like Roma and highlights not only the developmental research that provides guidance to the design of effective positive youth development program, but also the significant knowledge produced by persons who have close familiarity with the Roma youth condition and daily encounters to observe and test empirically positive processes of change. The conclusion suggests implications for future research and interventions as well as for current social policy to promote positive development globally, even in the most stigmatized youth.

Musso, P., Inguglia, C., Mannoia, M., Lo Coco, A. (2021). Roma Youth: Positive Development despite Challenges. In R. Dimitrova, D.L. Sam, L. Ferrer Wreder (a cura di), Roma Minority Youth Across Cultural Contexts: Taking a Positive Approach to Research, Policy, and Practice (pp. 63-84). New York : Oxford University Press [10.1093/oso/9780190654061.003.0005].

Roma Youth: Positive Development despite Challenges

Inguglia, Cristiano
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Mannoia, Michele
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2021-07-01

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This chapter highlights the importance of integrating research on positive youth development processes in the most disadvantaged youth groups. The authors focused on Roma youth, representing a prototypical low-status minority group. The first part of the chapter examines the demographics and the socially, politically, and ideologically challenging contexts in which Roma young people are embedded, taking into account the case of Italy, one European country with high anti-Roma sentiments. The second part summarizes the literature that deals with social-psychological factors underlying the developmental functioning and optimal well-being of Roma youth in spite of adversity. The third part focuses on the understudied issue of intervention strategies for oppressed populations like Roma and highlights not only the developmental research that provides guidance to the design of effective positive youth development program, but also the significant knowledge produced by persons who have close familiarity with the Roma youth condition and daily encounters to observe and test empirically positive processes of change. The conclusion suggests implications for future research and interventions as well as for current social policy to promote positive development globally, even in the most stigmatized youth.
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Settore M-PSI/04 - Psicologia Dello Sviluppo E Psicologia Dell'Educazione
Settore SPS/08 - Sociologia Dei Processi Culturali E Comunicativi
Musso, P., Inguglia, C., Mannoia, M., Lo Coco, A. (2021). Roma Youth: Positive Development despite Challenges. In R. Dimitrova, D.L. Sam, L. Ferrer Wreder (a cura di), Roma Minority Youth Across Cultural Contexts: Taking a Positive Approach to Research, Policy, and Practice (pp. 63-84). New York : Oxford University Press [10.1093/oso/9780190654061.003.0005].
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