School trajectories and tactics of two young Roma in front of an exclusive scenario in the Czech Republic

Abstract

Based on an experience as an exchange student in Czech Republic within the framework of an agreement of the Faculty of Philosophy of Hradec Kralové and the Faculty of Humanities of the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste in 2013, I started a research about Roma community, emphasizing the experiences of two students: Darb and Filip. At first, I pretend to contextualize the reality of the romaní in the Czech Republic, picking up the questions I asked myself as an exchange student and then detailing the background and statistics that show the situation of Roma exclusion. From this contextualization and in dialogue with the problematized by Briones (2001) and Susan Wright (1998) I intend to emphasize how states produce their "other inmates" and how "cultural" is used as a political tool to legitimize and perpetuate inequalities. Based on this contextualization, I try to retake the school trajectories of Darb and Filip, and the experience of the “Khamoro” Roma Festival, with the intention of thinking about the practices (Bourdieu, 2008), the daily life of the subjects, as De Certeau (1996) pretends, giving the possibility to those experiences understood as tactics that in contexts of subordination take advantage of the power gaps imposed allowing daily victories. In this case, survival and assistance within the school system. school trajectories, Roma students, exclusion, tactics.