Poverty and Social Exclusion in Gypsies: The Case of Malatya

Gypsies is one of the disadvantaged groups that experience poverty and social exclusion dramatically. Despite the fact that they settle in time, they have been the subject of exclusion. In this study, poverty and social exclusion that Gypsies that live in Malatya experience is examined within the context of poverty and social exclusion. In this scope, the study includes disadvantages as poverty and social exclusion in Gypsies, ethnicity, the reasons of poverty, migration and migration-related problems, low-access to education and employment services and opportunities or precarious work, being deprived of social security networks, not being able to benefit from social aid, accommodating in unhealthy housings, decimation etc. In the study, it was determined that Gypsies is a “disadvantaged” group from both cultural and socio-economic aspects, and Gypsies believe that they also play a role in terms of experiencing severe poverty and social exclusion