Everyday Discrimination. The Case of Romani People in the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area.

FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University logo. Harvard Worldwide Week Webinar. In conversation: Jacqueline Bhabha, JD, MSc, FXB Director of Research; Margareta Matache, PhD, Lecturer, Director of the FXB Center Roma Program; Stephanie Martinez Fernandez, MPH, Researcher. Everyday Discrimination. The Case of Romani People in the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area. Friday, October 11. 2024. 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET. Register: hsph.me/HWW-Roma

Date and Time

October 11, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Location

Zoom – Registration Required

Date and Time: Friday, October 11, 2024 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET

Location: Zoom – Registration Required

Join the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human rights for a virtual discussion of the program’s most recent report titled “Confronting Major and Everyday Discrimination. Romani Experiences in Canada’s Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area.” The FXB Center, in partnership with the Canadian Romani Alliance, launched a qualitative study involving middle-class and working-class Romani and non-Romani people in the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area (GTHA), a region known as the area with the largest and most diverse Romani population in Canada. This study attempted to explore the realities and the struggles of Canadian Romani people who experience stigma and everyday discrimination, the types of stigma and discriminatory incidents they face, and the downstream consequences of stigma.

This event is part of the 2024 Harvard Worlwide Week.

“In this long-overdue study, the authors document the experience of Romani people living in the Greater Toronto area, as well as how they are perceived by non-Roma. While the presence of this group is largely invisible in the Canadian context, the research reveals that many feel misunderstood and face ethnic insults. The most readily available response is to aim to remain silent about their Roma identity, even in the Canadian context, which celebrates multiculturalism. I recommend this informative study for anyone interested in broadening their understanding of stigmatization and discrimination of this racialized group in North America.”

– Michèle Lamont, Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Harvard University
Read the report here

In conversation:

FXB Director of Research

Jacqueline Bhabha, JD, MSc

Jacqueline Bhabha is a Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health, the Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is also the Director of Research at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University.
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Jacqueline Bhabha, JD, MSc
Lecturer, Director of the FXB Center Roma Program

Margareta Matache, PhD

Dr. Margareta (Magda) Matache is a Lecturer on Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the co-founder and Director of the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University. She is also a member of the O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health. Dr. Matache’s research focuses on the manifestations and impacts of racism and other systems of oppression in different geographical and political contexts.
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Stephanie Martinez Fernandez, SM

Stephanie is a storyteller with experience conducting quantitative and qualitative, ethnographic research in the U.S., Morocco, and Myanmar centered around the migrant experience and accessibility to healthcare, federal programs, and neighborhoods. Stephanie received her master’s in Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health (HSPH).
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Stephanie Martinez Fernandez

Speakers’ remarks are based on their own scholarship and experience. As such, they speak for themselves, not for Harvard University.

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