A Model in the Desert: Modernization, Advanced Liberalism, and Child Protection Reform in Postcommunist Romania

Negoíta, Marian

doi:10.1177/0032329209357887

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“…Second, the current depiction of Romanians draws from, dovetails into, and fleshes out an ongoing narrative of Romanians and Roma in the UK and Europe more widely (Light and Young, 2009: 290–2). Romania gained notoriety in the 1990s in the UK with its post-Ceauşescu images of AIDS babies and orphanages (Light and Young, 2009: 292; Negoita, 2010: 95–6). The next instalment was a sudden (though ultimately modest) increase in Roma asylum applicants in the late 1990s from East Europe (Cahn, 2004; Stevens, 2004).…”

Section: Tabloid Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Racialization of the New European Migration to the UK

2012

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The purpose of our article is to examine how current East European migration to the UK has been racialized in immigration policy and tabloid journalism. The state’s immigration policy, we argue, exhibits features of institutionalized racism that implicitly invokes shared whiteness as a basis of racialized inclusion. The tabloids, in contrast, tend toward cultural racism in their coverage of these migrations by explicitly invoking cultural difference as a basis of racialized exclusion. Our analysis focuses on two cohorts of migrants: Hungarians, representing the larger 2004 entrants, and Romanians, representing the smaller 2007 entrants. The processes of racialization we examine in this article reveal degrees of whiteness that give ‘race’ continued currency as an idiom for making sense of these migrations and the migrants that people them.

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confidence: 99%

The Racialization of the New European Migration to the UK

2012

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“…Marian Negoita (2010), an analyst of the child protection reform that involved both decentralization and deinstitutionalization, notes that the EU accession process was one of the rare occasions on which a modernization project involving the export of in this case advanced liberal or neoliberal European institutions to other contexts was so explicitly stated 309 . The problems deinstitutionalization had caused in 308…”

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“…4, Scott, 1998). It is interesting that although Negoita (2010) quotes Scott he chooses to only do so towards the very end of his paper, diverting the attention from previous high-modernist projects of improvement that became localized in Siret. It is also interesting that Siret offers an opportunity to study both forms of deinstitutionalization that were high-modernist in their approach (such the establishment of the hospital as a place, where disabled children from everywhere in the country would find a home and be if possible educated for production, as well secondly the closing of the hospital due to pre-accession EU negotiations, as it was considered not to fulfill the needs of the children), co-exist with more localized forms of thinking improvement that similarly do not guarantee their success if improving life in Siret.…”

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confidence: 99%