Assessing racialized poverty: the case of Romani people in the European Union

Using humor to disguise racism in television news: the case of the Roma

“…But these verb processes also point to an additional meaning, as in the case of 'barely managed to live day by day.' From NGO reports we know that, in such villages, the Roma can exist in cycles of marginalisation, with high levels of unemployment and no possibilities for welfare support (Matache and Barbu 2021). But here the specific causes of why they barely manage to live are excluded from this discursive script.…”

‘It’s still them’: concealed racism against Roma in Romanian television news

“…Here the Roma live in a cycle of social marginalisation. Where there is access to schooling, dropout rates are high because of poverty and terrible living conditions, leading to later problems to access the jobs market (Matache & Barbu, 2021). Living situations can also be worse where communities face evictions from public areas by the authorities (Alexandrescu et.…”

“…Lacking jobs, money, identity cards, and access to healthcare, communities then settle elsewhere awaiting the next eviction, again removing possibilities for schooling. However, for many in Romania, the social exclusion is viewed as being deeply rooted in the culture of the Roma, or as choice, rather than a structural issue (Breazu & Machin, 2020;Matache & Barbu, 2021).…”

Analysing Contradictions: Reflections on Ethnographic Work with Romanian Roma

“…2 Across Europe, Roma, along with other stigmatized categories with which they partially overlap, such as homeless people (Schneider, 2020) and low-income migrants (Voicu, 2020), were targeted by persistent albeit unsubstantiated suspicions that they might contaminate society at large (OSCE, 2020). In short, the policies adopted to tackle the spread of the virus affected various social groups differently, bringing structural violence along with class, gender and racial inequalities into sharp focus, and they exacerbated pre-existing vulnerabilities to the point where they turned 'morbid' (Murji and Picker, 2021; see also Berta, 2020;Creţan and Light, 2020;Dragos, 2020;Gay y Blasco and Rodriguez Camacho, 2020;ERGO Network, 2020;Aradau and Tazzioli, 2021;Matache and Barbu, 2021;Gay y Blasco and Fotta, 2023). Likewise, the repressive measures set in place to limit the spread of the virus also affected various groups differently, and for some of them even turned violent.…”