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This analysis, focusing on the impact on young people attending secondary education, is based on a qualitative study carried out in the Metropolitan Areas of Lisbon and Porto using data from three focus groups and in-depth interviews with 33 secondary school students. Several public policies currently cover the Roma\/Ciganos, but social inequality persists in terms of basic subsistence conditions and civic participation, as well as in the form of structural racism, with little Roma participation in political life and the invisibility of representation. The situation has worsened exponentially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the combination of \u201cclassic\u201d forms of racism and discrimination and the new forms of exclusion that have also appeared. We argue that the implicit acceptance of poverty and marginalization among Roma people needs to be viewed as a component of the racialization and antigypsyism to which they are subjected, and this dimension needs to be further investigated by scientific agendas.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/socsci10060203","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,31]],"date-time":"2021-05-31T21:42:06Z","timestamp":1622497326000},"page":"203","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Structural Racism and Racialization of Roma\/Ciganos in Portugal: The Case of Secondary School Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9661-6261","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Olga","family":"Magano","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centro de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o e Estudos de Sociologia, Iscte\u2014Instituto Universit\u00e1rio de Lisboa, 649-026 Lisbon, Portugal"},{"name":"Department of Social Sciences and Management, Open University, 1269-001 Lisbon, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Maria Manuela","family":"Mendes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centro de Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o e Estudos de Sociologia, Iscte\u2014Instituto Universit\u00e1rio de Lisboa, 649-026 Lisbon, Portugal"},{"name":"Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon (FAUL), 1349-063 Lisbon, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"ACIDI (2013). 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