ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thougts of the key concept covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explain why an overarching Roma collective identity seems to be so difficult to create given the large variety of people usually referred to as Roma. The main question raised why Roma identifications are so heterogeneous was answered by observing and presenting Roma people's identifications in different contexts. The hypothesis that Roma's identifications are contextual means in the struggle for recognition was explored through a multi-sited approach, a sort of methodological triangulation used to disentangle the often contradictory and puzzling empirical field. Intimately connected to this methodology, the theoretical framework of this book approaches the issue of Roma collective identity formation through the lenses of structure or agency nexus. The fieldwork indicates some important distinctions between different types of Roma identifications that can be located on a continuum from extrovert, performed, instrumental, and ascribed to introvert, denied, felt, and self-ascribed.
