SOUSA, Helio Abrantes de.
Resumo:
This monograph is a work that deal with the Gypsy community of the city of Sousa, where reside
three groups of Gypsies ethnicity Calon, sedentarized since the 1980s, and currently maintains an
estimated 600 persons located nearby the BR 230, a peripheral area, about 3 km from the center
of this city. The research aims to identify how the sousenses realize "a Gypsy" and as Gypsies
see the rest of the population. For it were interviewed through questionnaires several people from
different social classes residing in the city, both Gypsy and non-Gypsy, in order to understand the
perception that one has over the other. The Calon Gypsies undergo a process of stigmatization
because good part of general population defines through disparaging categories, denying them
social inclusion, making it clear that problems classics such as discrimination and prejudice are
still present in social relations between them. Also realize that the decreased use of their language
and some changes in traditional habits of their culture is a reality among gypsies Sousa although
some still struggle for young people preserve their customs as a way to prevent your identity be
placed in oblivion.