Constructing Roma Migrants : European Narratives and Local Governance.
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| Language: | English |
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2019.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Constructing Roma Migrants
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Roma Westward Migration in Europe: Rethinking Political, Social, and Methodological Challenges
- 1.1 Problematizing the Assumptions
- 1.2 The Securitarian Shift of "Roma Integration" Initiatives
- 1.3 Coping Strategies and Counter-Narratives
- 1.4 The Contribution of an Ethnographic Approach to "Roma Migration"
- 1.5 Book Structure
- 1.6 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Part I: Methodological, Legal, Policy, and Media Debates
- Chapter 2: Conceptual and Methodological Considerations in Researching "Roma Migration"
- 2.1 The Multiple Faces of the Concept of "the Roma" and "the Migrant"
- 2.2 Roma and Migrant: Two Similarly Complex and Contested Concepts
- 2.3 Literature and Statistics on Roma Migration
- 2.3.1 Statistics on "Roma Migration"
- 2.3.2 Academic Literature on "Roma Migration"
- 2.4 Conceptual and Methodological Considerations
- 2.5 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Chapter 3: A Roma European Crisis Road-Map: A Holistic Answer to a Complex Problem
- 3.1 The Persistence of the Roma Crisis
- 3.2 The European Union's Scope for Action and Initiatives
- 3.3 The Limitations of a Discrimination Policy Approach
- 3.4 Looking for the Answer in Human Rights and Minorities' Protection
- 3.5 Adopting a Holistic View of EU Roma Law and Policy
- 3.6 In Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Chapter 4: Conformism or Inadequacy of Roma Inclusion Policies? Missed Opportunities at the European and Local Levels
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 The Marginalized Roma: A European Union "Issue"
- 4.2.1 Data Collection for Evidence-Based Policy Development
- 4.3 The European Parliament Pilot Project on Marginalized Roma Inclusion: Defining the Problem and Identifying Areas of Action
- 4.3.1 The European Structural Funds 2007-2013.
- 4.3.2 The National Roma Integration Strategy as Precondition for the European Structural and Investment Funds Investments
- 4.4 ROMACT: Administrative Capacity at the Local Level
- 4.5 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Chapter 5: 'Modern-Day Fagins', 'Gaudy Mansions' and 'Increasing Numbers': Narratives on Roma Migrants in the Build-Up to the British EU Referendum
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Migration Policy Narratives
- 5.3 Representation and Stigmatisation of Roma Migrants
- 5.4 Migration, Benefits and the Roma
- 5.4.1 Early Developments at the National Level
- 5.4.2 Local Developments: Ţăndărei Roma in Manchester
- 5.4.3 The Big Issue "Loophole": From Local to National Concern
- 5.4.4 Benefits as a Pull Factors and the "Roma Flood" Scare
- 5.5 Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Part II: Securitization and Integration Policies
- Chapter 6: When Housing Policies Are Ethnically Targeted: Struggles, Conflicts and Contentions for a "Possible City"
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Going Beyond Camps in the "Crisis" Context
- 6.3 Seeking the Right to Be Included in the Possible City
- 6.4 Contesting the Ethnic Character of the Project: The Occupation of via Traves
- 6.5 Contesting the Selective Character of the Project: The Occupation of via Asti
- 6.6 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Chapter 7: Dwelling in Limbo. Temporality in the Governance of Romani Migrants in Spain
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 The Temporality of the Inhabited Space
- 7.2.1 The Perceived Temporality of Migrants' Life Course
- 7.3 Temporary Devices of Governance
- 7.4 Citizenship Timeline
- 7.5 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Chapter 8: The Stilled-Other of the Citizen. "Roma Beggars" and Regimes of (Im)mobility in an Austrian City
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.1.1 Intersecting Border Studies and Mobility Studies
- 8.1.2 The Effectiveness of Regimes-of-(Im)mobility.
- 8.2 Methodology and Research Context
- 8.2.1 Research Context
- 8.2.2 The Discourse on "Roma Beggars" in Town
- 8.3 Discourses, Practices and Policies Governing "Roma Beggars" (and Others) in Karlstadt
- 8.3.1 Criminalizing Transport
- 8.3.2 Invisibilizing Borders
- 8.3.3 Educating Beggars
- 8.3.4 Criminalization Through Victimization
- 8.3.5 Stillness
- 8.3.6 Deportability
- 8.4 Discussion
- Bibliography
- Chapter 9: The Migrating Poor: Romanian Roma Under Social Authoritarianism in Poland
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Changing Patterns of Migration and Policies in Poland
- 9.3 Policies and Narrative Towards Roma Migrants
- 9.4 The Flourishing Power of Social Authoritarianism
- 9.5 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Part III: Coping Strategies and Counter-Narratives
- Chapter 10: Identity Game for Welfare: Circumventing Surveillance of Legal Migrants in Europe
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Financial Sorting as Migration Governance
- 10.3 Producing, Challenging and Transmitting the Ethnic Frame
- 10.4 Passing the Virtual Sally Port: Coping Strategies of Roma Newcomers
- 10.4.1 Tax Credit Procedures: The Castle of HMRC
- 10.4.2 Child Tax Credit Claims: Identity Management Online
- 10.4.3 Hide and Seek: HMRC's Electronic Monitoring Mechanisms
- 10.5 Eluding Social Sorting by Identity Fraud Online
- 10.6 The Reality Gap
- 10.7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Chapter 11: Contesting the Structural Constraints. A Case Study of Roma Asylum Seekers from Serbia
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 The Case of Roma Migrants from Serbia
- 11.3 Framing the Roma
- 11.4 "Roma Migrants" as Social Actors with Agency
- 11.5 Experiencing the Restrictive Regime
- 11.6 Challenging the Regime of Deportability
- 11.7 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Chapter 12: Patchwork Economies in Europe: Economic Strategies Among Homeless Romanian Roma in Copenhagen.
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Methodology
- 12.3 Analytical Perspectives
- 12.4 When Employment (muncă) Is Not an Option, Then You Turn to Business (afacere)
- 12.5 The badocari Economic Niche in Copenhagen
- 12.6 Income Opportunities at Home in Romania
- 12.7 Patchwork Household Economies Configured Around Debt
- 12.8 Micro-economics as a Challenge to Political, Economic and Social Contexts
- 12.9 Concluding Comments
- Bibliography
- Chapter 13: Differing Romani Mobilities? The Case of Cross-Border Migration of Roma Between Slovenia and Austria
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 The Representation of Romani Migrants in Europe
- 13.3 Migration Histories of Roma from the Former Yugoslav Space
- 13.4 The Position of Roma in Slovenia
- 13.5 Contextualizing Economic Migration of Roma from the Pomurje Region
- 13.6 Romani Individuals as Economic Migrants: Life Stories Between Slovenia and Austria
- 13.7 Conclusion
- Bibliography.