Joan M. Oleaque, 49 years old, Catarroja, Spanish
Belonging to the Roma, Joan M. Oleaque is a University Professor, Doctor in communication, journalist and writer whose career has received recognition.
THE STORY OF JOAN M. OLEAQUE AS A SUCCESS STORY WITHIN THE ROMA COMMUNITY
Under the framework of the PAL Project aimed at fighting discrimination and anti-gypsyism in the European Union within the fields of education and employment, Florida Universitaria is collecting success stories within the Roma community in order to combat stereotypes that make Roma social inclusion more difficult, to boost a sort of inclusion not involving to renounce to one’s identity, a sort of inclusion entailing Roma empowerment and active participation in social processes that affect all of us. This time we have chosen the story of Joan M. Oleaque.
Roma and journalist, Joan M. Oleaque has a PhD in Communication. He began teaching journalism at the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication of the University of Valencia in 2004. Invited by the University of Vienna, he participated in a congress of European Romanists in Bonn (Germany) in 2009. His lecture was about the media situation of the Roma in Spain. That year in June he began working as a professor of journalism in the International University of Valencia (VIU), where he currently directs the Master Degree in Social Communication of Scientific Research. In 2011 he held a research assignment at Lancaster University (UK) where he worked together with Professor Ruth Wodak, a specialist of internationally renowned critical discourse analysis in the field of minority discrimination.
His career as a journalist has led him to publish a large number of reports –especially for the Spanish newspaper El País– for example, “The image of the Roma in the media” or “Gypsies, an exodus of a thousand years”, to cite some of the articles focused on the Roma community.
He also has published two journalistic books: In ecstasy. Drugs, machine music and dance: journey into the bowels of “the party” (Ed. Ara Llibres, 2004)3 and From the Darkness. Delving into the Alcàsser case (Ed. Diagonal, 1995)4, to which the International Association of Police Writers granted the Rodolfo Walsh International Prize as the best book of non-fiction crime novel in 2003. Previously, that same work had already been deserving of the Octavi Pallissa Prize, for essay projects, in 1997. In addition to this, in 1999, Joan M. Oleaque won the Critics Award for Written Journalism from the Interuniversity Institute of Valencian Philology.
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