Introduction: Romani Politics in Neoliberal Europe

Sigona, Nando; Trehan, Nidhi

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“…-is an effect of this larger process of EU institutionalisation (cf. Guild & Carrera, 2013;Sigona & Trehan, 2009;Simhandl, 2006;van Baar, 2011a;Vrăbiescu, 2014).…”

Section: How Does It Feel To Be a (European) Problem?mentioning

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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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“…-is an effect of this larger process of EU institutionalisation (cf. Guild & Carrera, 2013;Sigona & Trehan, 2009;Simhandl, 2006;van Baar, 2011a;Vrăbiescu, 2014).…”

Section: How Does It Feel To Be a (European) Problem?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Un/Free mobility: Roma migrants in the European Union

2017

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“…EU expansion has forged new racial regimes based on immigration, which have disproportionately impacted Romani communities in the region (Baker 2017; De Genova 2016, 2017; Sigona and Trehan 2009). Scholarly attention to anti‐Roma racism in East Europe has also focused on the interrelated collapse of planned economies and factory labor in postsocialist states.…”

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The Limits of Resilience: Managing Waste in the Racialized Anthropocene

Resnick

2021

American Anthropologist

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Recent anthropological attention to more-than-human life has neglected the importance of race and racialization in human responses to environmental change. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with waste management institutions and Romani waste laborers in urban Bulgaria, this article invokes the concept of the racialized Anthropocene to destabilize the unmarked whiteness upon which the turn to humans-as-a-species-anthropos-is founded. Habituation is central to both EU waste policy and the generative strategies Romani street sweepers use to manage accumulated waste and the conditions of their racialized labor. I call these creative and quotidian strategies anthropogenic management. Anthropogenic management disrupts the resiliency paradigm that has become commonplace in analyses of how people respond to circumstances not of their own making. As such, it bridges the Anthropocene, marked by waste accumulation at a planetary scale, with the everyday conditions of racialization through the embodied labor of managing other people's trash. [waste, labor, race, Bulgaria] RESUMEN Atención antropológica reciente a la vida más que humana ha desatendido la importancia de raza y racialización en las respuestas al cambio ambiental. Basado en trabajo de campo etnográfico con las instituciones de manejo de residuos y trabajadores Romaníes de residuos en la Bulgaria urbana, este artículo invoca el concepto del Antropoceno racializado para desestabilizar la blancura no marcada sobre la cual el giro a humanos como una especie -antropos-se funda. Habituación es central tanto para la política de residuos de la UE como las estrategias generativas que los barrenderos Romaníes de las calles utilizan para manejar los residuos acumulados y las condiciones de su trabajo racializado. Llamo a estas estrategias creativas y cotidianas manejo antropocéntrico. El manejo antropogénico interrumpe el paradigma de resiliencia que ha llegado a ser lugar común en los análisis de cómo las personas responden a las circunstancias que no son de su propia creación. Como tal, hace el puente entre el Antropoceno, marcado por una acumulación de residuos a una escala planetaria, con las condiciones de cada día de racialización a través del trabajo corporeizado de manejar los residuos de otras personas. [residuos, trabajo, raza, Bulgaria] РЕЗЮМЕ Антропологично внимание към по-голям от човешкия живот пренебрегна значението на расата и расиализацията в реакциите на хората към промените в околната среда. Базирано на етнографска работа в България с институции за управление на отпадъците и Ромски работници, заети в този процес, тази статия обръща внимание към концепцията за расовия антропоцен, за да може да разклати неотбелязваната белота, на която стъпва гледането към човека като биологичен видантропоса. Привикването е централна характеристика e както за политиките за управление на отпадъци на ЕС, така и за стратегиите, които ромските работници, заети в метене на улиците, използват, за да се справят с натрупания боклук и условията на расово маркирания им труд....

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“…A third period commenced in the 1980s and was characterised by an emphasis on the issue of Roma children's education and Romani culture by European institutions. After the fall of the Iron Curtain, the period after 1989 has been associated with a general rise in the discourse around the "Roma issue" among international organisations, donors' programmes and EU institutions (Sigona and Trehan 2009). The Romani movement, with its major stakeholder at that time, the International Romani Union, has also played an important role in increasing contact between Roma activists on the international level (Klimova-Alexander 2005).…”

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“…Since the late 1990s and particularly after 2000, trends can be identified in Romani literature that are influenced by the expansion of the international Romani movement and a rise in the discourse around the "Roma issue" among international organisations (Klimova-Alexander 2005; Sigona and Trehan 2009). These developments coincide with post-millennial changes on the global level related to the so-called digital revolution (Boone and Higgins 2003;Prain 1997).…”

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Romani literature and its digital forms

Zahova

2020

Romani Studies

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Since the late 1990s and particularly after 2000, Romani literature has been characterized in part by the influence of international and global developments within the Romani movement as well as the growth of digital technologies and the internet. Romani publications are going digital in different formats, including the digitization of public domain materials, e-books, audiobooks, internet publishing and social media publishing. This article discusses how digital technologies have been incorporated in Romani literature production and proposes a typology of the digital forms of Romani literature. It also provides an analysis of the issues and challenges that are observed in Romani digital publishing, some of which are specifically related to this type of publishing, while others apply to Romani literature in general.

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Introduction: Romani Politics in Neoliberal Europe

Cited by 12 publications

References 16 publications

Un/Free mobility: Roma migrants in the European Union

Un/Free mobility: Roma migrants in the European Union

The Limits of Resilience: Managing Waste in the Racialized Anthropocene

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