Book Review: A Book Review on Roma Minority Youth Across Cultural Contexts Taking a Positive Approach to Research, Policy and Practice

David Sam and Laura Ferrer-Wreder is a valuable resource for global multidisciplinary audience and the readership of the Frontiers Sociology Section on Race and Ethnicity.The book applies a strength based multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to human development by investigating the most stigmatized and marginalized ethnic minority in Europe from a global cultural perspective.The main focus is on Positive Youth Development (PYD) approaches among Roma minority youth across diverse societies uncovering interconnectedness between nation states, ethnic, national, racial and religious identities and contexts as powerful facets in demarcating social, political and economic boundaries structuring life chances for Roma populations.The book discovers shared socio-cultural world through participatory and broader collective processes that indicate how Roma are experiencing these social processes.In so doing, the volume capitalizes on multiple assets within the collective potential of Roma communities globally embedded in historically intertwined racial and ethnic conflicts, discrimination, segregation and marginalization that regrettably are still vivid reality for Roma minority groups in many Eastern European and Western countries.By drawing on such theoretical backgrounds, the aim is to provide an international and interdisciplinary forum for scholarly investigations and discussions that will advance our basic knowledge of marginalized minority groups in its historical and socio-cultural contexts.The orientation of the volume is towards formulating new conceptualizations of optimal development embedded in culture, race and ethnicity, together with theoretically relevant empirical investigations and conceptual contributions.The volume incorporates a stellar cast of contributions by leading scholars in sociologically-centered fields, as well as developmental and cross-cultural psychology, Roma and ethnic minority studies, political science, social policy, health, education, social psychology, cultural studies, prevention, intervention, policy and practice fields with original empirical contributions and conceptual analyses on relevant aspects of race, ethnicity, culture and religion among Roma populations.Such contributions successfully integrate multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary work that provides connections between different subfields within the broader umbrella of PYD conceptual orientation.Therefore, by building on PYD theoretical and methodological foundations, the volume advances and informs future research, policy and practice in addressing racial and ethnic inequalities faced by Roma populations globally.

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