Lívia Járóka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Lívia Járóka

Hungarian politician

Date of Birth: 06-Oct-1974

Place of Birth: Tata, Hungary

Profession: politician, anthropologist

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Lívia Járóka (born 6 October 1974, in Tata) is a Hungarian politician of part Romani ethnicity.
She is a Member of the European Parliament, first elected as part of the Fidesz list in 2004.
Járóka is the second Romani (but the first Romani woman) ever elected to the European Parliament; the first was Juan de Dios Ramírez Heredia from Spain, who served from 1994 to 1999. Járóka grew up in Sopron, a town near Hungary's western border with Austria.
Her father is ethnically Roma, her mother Hungarian.
After getting an MA in sociology from the Warsaw campus of the Central European University on a scholarship from the Soros-funded Open Society Institute she went on to study anthropology in Britain, focusing on Romani issues and culture.
In August 2003 she had a daughter and a son in 2007.
In 2012 she finished her PhD in Social Anthropology at the University College of London. Though a receiver of a scholarship of the Soros-funded Open Society Institute and graduated from the Central European University, Járóka never condemned publicly the anti-Soros campaign organized by her ultra-conservative home party Fidesz targeting George Soros and the Central European University.