Abstract:

The demand for scientific studies on the Romani people who are one of the disadvantaged groups has been increasing gradually. The Romani people drawn attention due to their history and culture and the problems they experience in society have continued to be the subject of research. The inadequacy of studies on Roma creates a problem in terms of accessing to researches in research. The inadequacy of existing studies and resources is the main problem of this study. The aim of the research is to examine the postgraduate theses on Romani people in Turkey, to compile the theses in this field and to facilitate access to the sources in the studies to be done. For this purpose, 49 postgraduate theses were reached as a result of the search made in Council of Higher Education, National Thesis Center with predetermined keywords. The theses reached in line with the determined sub-purposes were examined by grouping according to the Thesis Review Form. Since the oldest thesis about the Romani people in National Thesis Center belongs to the years of 2003, the study was limited to the period of 2003-2022 October. In the research, document analysis technique which is one of the quantitative research methods, was used and benefitted from frequency as the number of theses reached in analysis of the data is less than 100. It was concluded that the studies were mostly carried out in the provinces with a high Romani population and that the theses written were mostly carried out in the departments of sociology, history, music, and Islamic sciences.

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