An Inheritance of Exclusion: Roma Education, Genetics and the Turn to Biosocial Solutions

Autor/in	Myers, Martin
Titel	An Inheritance of Exclusion: Roma Education, Genetics and the Turn to Biosocial Solutions
Quelle	In: Research in Education, 107 (2020) 1, S.55-71 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Myers, Martin)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0034-5237
DOI	10.1177/0034523719880205
Schlagwörter	Ethnic Groups; Genetics; Health; Social Bias; Racial Bias; Civil Rights; Access to Education; Educational Policy; Equal Education; Cultural Capital; Genetic Disorders + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnie; Humangenetik; Gesundheit; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	Since the 1990s an increasing body of genetic studies of Roma people has been conducted and used to understand their lives. This includes research on health issues such as genetic predispositions to obesity or high cholesterol levels and the migration of European Roma from the Indian subcontinent. Such work needs to be contextualised within the wide-ranging historical oppression of Roma people including their enslavement, the Holocaust, denial of human rights and a lack of access to education. Aligning genetics research to educational policy has often been problematic in the context of discredited, 'race' science; recently more nuanced arguments have promoted 'post-genomic' solutions, such as biosocial strategies, that address social justice issues. This article argues that an economy of knowledge emerges in the 'postgenomic era' that privileges predominantly White European, majority populations and this is particularly apparent in the context of the Roma. The promotion of educational solutions framed by genetics research underpins how cultural capital, in this case scientific knowledge and its framing within social theory such as Deleuzian assemblage will, in all likelihood, maintain the status quo for the Roma. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01