ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on one Roma women's non-governmental organisation (NGO) and explores the strategies this organisation uses to meet the intersectional aspects of hindrances and difficulties that characterise Roma women's situation in Hungary in the aftermath of state socialism. It seeks to unravel Roma women's agency through this organisation and how they collaborate with surrounding stakeholders and how the NGO's relations to diverse power holders and social workers representing different municipal, regional, and state institutions influence the NGO's abilities to work on behalf of its constituency. By studying the interface between Roma women's organisations and the local welfare state the chapter explores how these organisations negotiate the normative discourses influencing the opportunities available to their constituency. The chapter also focuses on the specific resources the NGO mobilises to realise its specific goals. Social citizenship guides the entitlements of citizens to ensure that they have access to the basic necessities and services required to live on a socially acceptable level.
