A "parada para morar " dos filhos do vento: identidade e alteridade dos ciganos Calon na cidade de Sousa - PB.

Abstract

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.