The Challenge

The post-pandemic Spain must ensure that the next generations of Romani women definitively overcome the inequalities they have suffered for centuries and harness new emerging opportunities. It is widely recognized that Romani women and girls are at risk of facing even a less prosperous life because of the pandemic, as they live and grow in environmentally more unjust contexts that obligate Romani mothers and daughters (RMD) to protect their communities as caregivers and assume gendered roles (European Commission, 2020).

These gendered roles are a part of the self-construction process of womanhood. The experience of Romani womanhood in at-risk contexts in Andalusia impoverishes their lives, puts them at risk for physical and mental health, makes them vulnerable to domestic violence, precipitates school dropouts and condemns them to precarious jobs throughout their life course.

Our Vision

ANDAROMI proposes that Romani womanhood can be empowered through a liberating process between the mother-daughter dyad. 

ANDAROMI upholds the value Romani mothers and daughters have the capacity to lead their own challenges, and that Romani organizations must be scenarios that assure opportunities to advocate for their future.

ANDAROMI aims to co-create knowledge and co-design actions between academics, Romani mothers and daughters and grassroots organizations to advocate for gender rights in a post-pandemic future.