["Roma adolescents: a more varied reality than we think"]

Abstract

The Roma are a population that has been recorded in Europe since the Middle Ages. Today, there are more than ten million of them on the European continent, especially in Eastern Europe. They form several groups of great linguistic, cultural and social diversity, who are generally stigmatized by the majority populations despite multiple forms of integration. Some of them live in very precarious conditions, sometimes in ghettoized neighborhoods, like the people cared for by the association Médecins du Monde in Bulgaria. Livia Otal, an anthropologist by training and coordinator of the Bulgaria mission of Médecins du Monde, presents the actions carried out with these populations, particularly adolescents.

Keywords: Bulgaria; Bulgarie; Roma; Roms; accompagnement; adolescent; education; precariousness; précarité; santé sexuelle et reproductive; sexual and reproductive health; stigmatisation; stigmatization; support; teenager; tradition; éducation.