‘Going up to England’: Exploring Mobilities among Roma from Eastern Slovakia

Grill, Jan

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2012.689187

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“…The long‐term poverty of most Roma communities in conjunction with their segregation has resulted in lack of access to education, labour markets and housing (O'Nions, ; van Baar, ; ; Málovics et al ., ). Roma poverty is constructed by mainstream society in terms that position the Roma as responsible for their own way of living (van Baar, ; Filčák and Steger, ; Maestri, )—an uneducated group that is dependent on public welfare money (Grill, ).…”

Section: Positioning Far Right Movements and Strategies Of Roma Stigmmentioning

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‘Get out of Traian Square!’: Roma Stigmatization as a Mobilizing Tool for the Far Right in Timişoara, Romania

Creţan¹,

O’Brien²

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Post‐communist Central and Eastern Europe has seen far right movements and parties gain considerable ground by drawing on nativist and ethnic claims to call for a return to an imagined past. In Romania, far right groups have been able to capitalize on a sense of injustice while also playing on historically negative feelings towards the Roma community. These patterns have been observed in Timişoara, where the group Noua Dreaptă (New Right) has established a foothold over the past decade by emphasizing claims that blame the Roma for loss of built heritage and corruption in the administration of property restitution. The aims of this article are to examine the emergence of Noua Dreaptă and its use of Roma stigmatization, and to consider the ways in which extreme views are normalized by appealing to beliefs and perceptions. The findings of the article show that pre‐existing prejudices can be a powerful force that not only targets marginalized communities, but also challenges administrative practices and builds organizational support. At the level of the city, it is possible to identify the way in which these claims can be more precisely calibrated to draw on concerns that circulate within the community.

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Section: Positioning Far Right Movements and Strategies Of Roma Stigmmentioning

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‘Get out of Traian Square!’: Roma Stigmatization as a Mobilizing Tool for the Far Right in Timişoara, Romania

Creţan¹,

O’Brien²

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…The social formations of un/free mobility epitomised by Roma migrants instructively elucidate analogous mobilities among other 'groups' or categories of migrants within and across the space of 'Europe', and the criminalisation and policing of Roma comes to serve as an experimental laboratory for the policing of other subordinate racial 'minorities' and other impoverished citizens (as well as non-citizen migrants). Traversing the nested and contradictory regimes of citizenship and migrant legality and illegality, these formations of un/free mobility are differentially subjected to the invidious juridical frameworks which produce the unstable grounds for unequal living and working conditions, and thus substantiate and sustain differences and divisions through which various categories of migrants may be manipulated against one another as well as non-migrant ('native') citizens (Fox, 2013;Fox, Moroşanu, & Szilassy, 2012;Grill, 2012aGrill, , 2012b. The fragmentations of un/free mobility and differential citizenship, then, supply some of the decisive conditions of possibility for labour subordination, precarity, and social marginalisation as well as the often fragmentary forms of resistance.…”

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Un/Free mobility: Roma migrants in the European Union

2017

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This special issue showcases work that theorises and critiques the political, economic, legal, and socio-historical ('ethnic' or 'cultural') subordination of the European Roma (so-called 'Gypsies'), from the specific critical vantage point of Roma migrants living and working within and across the space of the European Union (EU). Enabled primarily through ethnographic research with diverse Roma communities across the heterogeneous geography of 'Europe', the contributions to this collection are likewise concerned with the larger politics of mobility as a constitutive feature of the sociopolitical formation of the EU. Foregrounding the experiences and perspectives of Roma living and working outside of their nation-states of 'origin' or ostensible citizenship, we seek to elucidate wider inequalities and hierarchies at stake in the ongoing (re-)racialisation of Roma migrants, in particular, and imposed upon migrants, generally. Thus, this special issue situates Roma mobility as a critical vantage point for migration studies in Europe. Furthermore, this volume shifts the focus conventionally directed at the academic objectification of 'the Roma' as such, and instead seeks to foreground and underscore questions about 'Europe', 'European'-ness, and EU-ropean citizenship that come into sharper focus through the critical lens of Roma racialisation, marginalisation, securitisation, and criminalisation, and the dynamics of Roma mobility within and across the space of 'Europe'. In this way, this collection contributes new research and expands critical interdisciplinary dialogue at the intersections of Romani studies, ethnic and racial studies, migration studies, political and urban geography, social anthropology, development studies, postcolonial studies, and European studies. Central to our approach in this special issue is a desire to re-situate questions of Roma mobility, and the consequently fluid and contradictory sociopolitical dynamics of Roma racial subordination, at the heart of any critical enquiry regarding 'Europe'. Roma mobility is particularly central to questions concerning EU-ropean citizenship, the borders of EUrope, the so-called 'migrant crisis' in Europe, and the rise of far-right, anti-immigrant racist populism across the space of Europe. That is to say, rather than fetishise research about 'the Roma' as such, as an essentialised 'ethnic group' to be studied in isolation, we insist that there can be literally no adequate investigation into the very meanings of 'Europeanness' or the politics of 'European' identity in the presumably wider field of

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“…Mastering ‘survivalist improvisations’ (Ferguson ), combined with coping with lowered state support and participating in Activation Works, became crucial for the poor to survive. Since 2004, these changes have also propelled many Roma/Gypsies to migrate westwards with the prospect of greater socioeconomic opportunities and existential movement; the Slovak accession to the EU in particular brought new hopes for Roma/Gypsies to secure a better future by becoming a cheap(er) Eastern European (migrant) labour force in Britain (Grill ; ; ; Pine ). The collapse of socialist industries and collective farms and the shift towards capitalism in Slovakia led to several dislocations of labour (Harvey & Krohn‐Hansen, this volume).…”

Section: Shifting Terrains Of Unemployment and ‘Activation Work’mentioning

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Re‐learning to labour? ‘Activation Works’ and new politics of social assistance in the case of Slovak Roma

Grill

2018

Royal Anthropological Inst

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Based on fieldwork among Roma/Gypsy groups in Slovakia, this essay explores the concept of ‘activation (to) work’ along the shifting lines of economic precariousness and the new politics of social assistance targeting formally unemployed subjects in the context of a neoliberalizing state. Focusing on how ideologies and policies of activation operate in everyday practices, the essay dissects lived experiences and the forms of sociability emerging in these spaces constituted by the centrifugal forces of the state. Particular attention is paid to the contested meanings, politics of waiting, and acts of compassion elicited by subjects’ labour and work simulations.

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‘Going up to England’: Exploring Mobilities among Roma from Eastern Slovakia

Cited by 72 publications

References 15 publications

‘Get out of Traian Square!’: Roma Stigmatization as a Mobilizing Tool for the Far Right in Timişoara, Romania

‘Get out of Traian Square!’: Roma Stigmatization as a Mobilizing Tool for the Far Right in Timişoara, Romania

Un/Free mobility: Roma migrants in the European Union

Re‐learning to labour? ‘Activation Works’ and new politics of social assistance in the case of Slovak Roma

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