‘In England, they don’t call you black!’ Migrating racialisations and the production of Roma difference across Europe

Grill, Jan

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2017.1329007

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“…Finally, given the timing of our research just before the UK vote on the departure from the EU in June 2016, our findings can feed into the emerging scholarship on migrant insecurities and marginalisation after Brexit (Currie, ; Lulle et al, ), particularly in relation to Roma communities (Grill, ). Human trafficking processes (and anti‐trafficking efforts) examined in this paper were framed by specific legal and institutional circumstances, some of which will be likely dismantled in the aftermath of Brexit, and it is crucial to consider how and why this will impact on the prospects of especially the most marginalised migrants.…”

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“…Second, because the exposure to manoeuvring forms such a crucial aspect of a trafficked person's experience, other instances of being manoeuvred and how they are handled by relevant institutions becomes central in counter‐trafficking interventions. Many trafficked Slovaks, especially those from Roma communities, carry a lack of trust in formal institutions, translating their experience from Slovakia to the UK (Grill, ). This is taken advantage of by traffickers and becomes further amplified in the foreign country where trafficked persons also become marginalised migrants.…”

Section: Relational Geographies Of Human Trafficking: Multiple Spatiamentioning

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Relational geographies of human trafficking: Inequality, manoeuvring and im/mobility across space and time

Blažek

Smith

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper demonstrates why and how a fuller geographical perspective extends contemporary scholarship on human trafficking within and beyond the discipline.We employ a relational approach and draw on in-depth qualitative research with trafficked persons and a range of stakeholders in Slovakia and the United Kingdom (UK), to depict how the processes underpinning human trafficking are nonlinear and operate instantaneously at multiple intersecting scales and temporalities and through diverse mobilities. The analysis problematises the discrete and homogeneous notion of space coupled with a linear conceptualisation of time and, more specifically, the normative portrayals of recruitment, transit and exploitation as distinct and sequential phases of human trafficking. Instead, the individuated experiences of trafficked persons are examined in relational geographies of inequality, manoeuvring and mobilities. Such a conceptual shift ensures that efforts to understand and combat human trafficking address its effects as well as the wider social relations and structural conditions that facilitate exploitation. We conclude the paper by outlining how a relational-geographic perspective has the potential to foster new forms of dialogue and inquiry within and beyond the discipline. K E Y W O R D SEastern Europe, exploitation, human trafficking, inequality, mobilities, relational geographies 1 | INTRODUCTION Human trafficking is inherently spatial, comprising cross-cutting processes of exploitation within and across local, regional, national and international borders. Yet, academic, policy and media understandings of human trafficking tend to rely on a discrete and homogeneous conceptualisation of space coupled with a linear conceptualisation of time (Smith, 2017). Our aim in this paper is to contribute to critical debates over structural inequalities that underpin human trafficking (Anderson & Ruhs, 2010;Andrijasevic, 2010;Lewis et al., 2015;Piper et al., 2015) by offering a geographical conceptualisation of human trafficking that explicitly recognises the relational nature of space and time. Using in-depth qualitative research with trafficked persons and a range of stakeholders in Slovakia and the United Kingdom (UK), we examine why viewing processes such as recruitment, transit and exploitation as distinct and sequential phases of the human trafficking process is reductive. In turn, we reframe human trafficking as a relational composition that spans multiple spaces and temporalities.The paper is structured as follows. First, we outline relational perspectives on human trafficking within critical inter-disciplinary scholarship and suggest that this could be enriched by engaging explicitly with relational conceptions of space (and time). Second, we introduce the writings of Massey, Bergson and Deleuze and present the theoretical framework for ---

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Section: Relational Geographies Of Human Trafficking: Multiple Spatiamentioning

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Relational geographies of human trafficking: Inequality, manoeuvring and im/mobility across space and time

Blažek

Smith

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Scholars analysing the transnational movement of different Roma networks commonly label this process as 'circular migration' (Grill, 2017;Pine, 2014). According to sociologists of migration this term refers to temporary migration, in which migrants come to a receiving country for a few months or years, and then return to their homelands (Castles and Miller, 2009).…”

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“…Although they are few in numbers, their deceitful strategy even more confuses the judges' decision-making process which is revolving around the questionfor a Canadian a very difficult one -who is Roma and on what conditions can someone be considered Roma? Their limited knowledge about these people is centred around the common narrative in which 'Roma's bodies are historically marked by their racialised darkness'(Grill, 2017). In this real-life, Canadian context, it is not an academic constructivist question, but it has life-defining real stake, who is considered a real Gypsy by the judges.…”

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Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire?

Durst¹

2018

Intersections

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This article argues that an essential role that economically backward regions from Hungary play in the global economy is to provide a cheap, flexible and expendable labour force. Out of these social groupings, are the Roma people who inhabit a precarious social position and are considered superfluous: ‘the reserved army of the labour force’ to their society at large. At the same time, it demonstrates, benefiting from a multi-site ethnographic research, how these seemingly resourceless transnational migrants are using their almost only capital: their kinship network as a resource, and ‘rumour publics’ as a strategy of manoeuvre in a climate of political and economic uncertainty and unequal circumstances of domination, in the ‘one-word capitalism’ in order to pursue a better life, or what they consider socio-economic mobility.

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“…This process, we argue, reflected a kind of integration, where East Europeans learned the local norms of racism to distinguish themselves from Britain's more visible minorities. This racism hadn't shed all its East European inflections (transnational ties continually refreshed them; see Gawlewicz ; Grill, ), but it did adjust to the local contexts where it was used.…”

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Pathological integration, or, how East Europeans use racism to become British

Fox

Mogilnicka

2017

British Journal of Sociology

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East Europeans are integrating into life in the UK. This entails learning to get along with their new neighbours, but it also involves not getting along with certain neighbours. Integration is not confined to benevolent forms of everyday cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism and conviviality; it can also include more pathological forms, like racism. Whilst integration is generally seen as desirable, the learning that it entails necessarily includes less desirable practices and norms. The aim of this article is to show how East Europeans in the UK have been acquiring specifically British competencies of racism. This doesn't mean all East Europeans are racist or they always use racism; it does mean, however, that racism is a part of the integration equation. We focus on the racist and racializing practices of Poles, Hungarians and Romanians in Bristol in the UK. These East Europeans are using racism to insert themselves more favourably into Britain's racialized status hierarchies. This is a kind of integration.

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‘In England, they don’t call you black!’ Migrating racialisations and the production of Roma difference across Europe

Cited by 43 publications

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Relational geographies of human trafficking: Inequality, manoeuvring and im/mobility across space and time

Relational geographies of human trafficking: Inequality, manoeuvring and im/mobility across space and time

Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire?

Pathological integration, or, how East Europeans use racism to become British

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