Mobility interrogating free movement: Roma acts of European citizenship

Aradau, Claudia; Huysmans, Jef; Macioti, P. G.; Squire, Vicki

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“…Aradau, Huysmans, Macioti, & Squire, 2013;Çağlar & Mehling, 2009;Guild & Carrera, 2013), which have been celebrated as distinguishing features of this citizenship. Of course, these migratory dynamics have never been contained exclusively within the parameters of the EU as such, but rather exceed the space and boundaries of the EU to encompass the uneven 'postsocialist' geography of an extended (eastern) 'Europe', where Roma people (as minoritised communities) quite consistently came out the 'losers' of the various tumultuous neoliberal capitalist and neo-nationalist transitions (Bhabha, 1999;Fekete, 2016;Sardelić, 2015;Stewart, 2012; see also Sardelić, 2017;Solimene, 2017).…”

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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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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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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“…A number of pro‐Roma associations have mobilized against Roma segregation and are advocating for Roma housing inclusion through different strategies. These include collaborating with the government as subcontracted providers of services to Roma camp dwellers (for example, educational and leisure activities for Roma children) (Daniele and Persico, ; Maestri, ); developing advocacy research data and campaigns, such as the publication of reports and legal action (see Berenice et al ., ), and the organization of spectacular protests (see Aradau et al ., ; Maestri, ). However, in the past decade, a new form of ‘contentious politics’ (a process of claim making addressing the government—see McAdam et al ., ) has emerged as a growing number of Roma who had previously been living in camps or informal settlements became involved in the urban squatting movement.…”

Section: The Roma Join the Squatting Movement: Collective Action For mentioning

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“…For example, Aradau et al . () analyse a demonstration of Roma in Rome in 2008, arguing that their presence in the public space through a form of organized protest challenged their invisibilization (both physical and discursive). In the case I discuss in this article, the move to a housing rights squat did not chime with the racialized discourse of Roma‐nomads, hence Roma‐squatters unsettled the social orderings underpinning governance apparatuses.…”

Section: The Aesthetic Politics Of Roma‐squatting: Disrupting An Ambimentioning

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“…Moreover, as discussed earlier, the Roma are constructed as exceptional subjects who differ from both Italian citizens and migrants. This view continues to affect not only public opinion, but also the patterns of Roma political mobilization, as well as their strategies of coping with stigmatization, which leads to their retreat into the private sphere (see Tremlett, ; Aradau et al ., ; Vermeersch, ; Maestri, ). Thus, overcoming different claims and subjectivities is crucial for the formation of joint political struggles.…”

Section: The Spatial Politics Of Roma‐squatting: Urban Frames and Matmentioning

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The Nomad, The Squatter and the State: Roma Racialization and Spatial Politics in Italy

Maestri¹

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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What happens when Roma people move from the space of an informal settlement to that of a squat of a housing rights movement? In this article, which is based on the analysis of housing squats involving Roma people in the Italian capital city of Rome, I argue that this move is more than a housing solution: it is a new form of contentious and aesthetic politics. In Rome approximately 7,000 Roma face extreme housing deprivation and segregation, in both official and makeshift camps. While different associations have for many years advocated Roma housing inclusion through a minority and human‐rights framework, in the aftermath of the 2007/2008 economic crisis an increasing number of Roma have moved to squats set up by social movement activists. The aim of the article is threefold. First, it illustrates the collective action repertoire of Roma‐squatting. Secondly, it considers its aesthetic politics, which through spatial dislocation unsettles the racializing discourse endorsed by policymakers that underpins the segregation of the Roma. Finally, this article unpacks the process of politicization of Roma‐squatting and discusses the urban frames and material resources that consolidate this transformation through a comparison of four housing squats that Roma people joined.

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“…With the 1992 Treaty of Maastricht, freedom of movement was redefined as a right belonging to all EU citizens, defined in the Treaty as 'every citizen who is a national of a Member 47 State'. As Aradau, Huysmans, Macioti, and Squire (2013) argue, mobility is therefore 'no longer simply an economic opportunity and a vehicle of economic integration between states … rather it creates the conditions for demanding a European polity that is defined by European citizens with a common status and identity ' (p. 141). In this sense, EU citizenship is also fundamentally a 'a citizenship for migrants' (Chatty, 2015): It is defined by and enacted through movement across national state borders, and it treats transnational mobility as a vehicle for the creation of a supranational identity (see also Yıldız & De Genova, 2017).…”

Section: Eu Citizenship and Freedom Of Movementmentioning

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Free to Move Along: On the Urbanisation of Cross-border Mobility Controls - A Case of Roma 'EU migrants' in Malmö, Sweden

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This thesis traces the local government response to the presence of impoverished and street-homeless so-called vulnerable EU-citizens in Malmö (Sweden's third largest city) between the years 2014-2016, and develops an analysis about how bordering takes place in cities. "Vulnerable EU-citizens" is an established term in the Swedish context, used by the authorities to refer to citizens of other EU Member States who are staying in Sweden without a right of residence and in situations of extreme poverty and marginality. A majority of those whom are categorised as "vulnerable EU-citizens" are Roma from Bulgaria or Romania. Starting from the observation that "vulnerable EU-citizens" have been pervasively problematised as unwanted migrants, the thesis asks how the municipal-and local authorities in Malmö act to discourage and otherwise manage their mobilities by controlling their conditions of stay. In doing so, it seeks to elaborate on theories about intra-EU bordering practices, and to elucidate some of the mechanisms, effects and implications of urban mobility control practices. My most sincere gratitude also goes to the scholars who so generously agreed to be discussants and readers at my (many!

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Mobility interrogating free movement: Roma acts of European citizenship

Cited by 21 publications

References 9 publications

Un/Free mobility: Roma migrants in the European Union

Un/Free mobility: Roma migrants in the European Union

The Nomad, The Squatter and the State: Roma Racialization and Spatial Politics in Italy

Free to Move Along: On the Urbanisation of Cross-border Mobility Controls - A Case of Roma 'EU migrants' in Malmö, Sweden

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