Romani Minorities and Uneven Citizenship Access in the Post-Yugoslav Space

Sardelić, Julija

doi:10.1080/17449057.2014.991154

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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). Hence, the contemporary re-racialisation of 'the Roma' across Europe is inseparable from their emergence over the last two decades as a premier, if often neglected, exemplar of new formations of trans-European cross-border mobility -which is to say, the contemporary configuration of their racialisation is increasingly inextricable form their status as 'migrants'.…”

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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“…While Roma de jure have the same rights as all other citizens of the respective states, they are de facto permanently denied these rights (Sardelić, 2015). According to Balibar (2003;2009), the discrepancy between minorities' codified rights and rights in social practice cannot be resolved, as the current concepts of citizenship (particularly in the Balkans) are dominated by nationalism: a state for Roma that Balibar terms "European apartheid".…”

Section: On the Contemporary Human Rights Situation Of Roma From The mentioning

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“…The reasons for the current migration vary depending on political context and individual fate; beyond all differences, Roma's motivations for migrating rest particularly on the fact that they became the "losers" after the collapse of Yugoslavia, which manifests in everyday practice in the form of diverse human rights violations (Sardelić, 2014). Since 2009, however, a process of visa liberalization, which has made it easier for Western Balkan citizens to obtain valid emigration paperwork, has been reinforcing the current migration (Cherkezova, 2014, p. 5).…”

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Migration Regimes and the Translation of Human Rights: On the Struggles for Recognition of Romani Migrants in Germany

Leko

2017

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The current claims for asylum and refugee protection of Roma from the so-called "Western Balkan states" are rejected by the German state. Based on this practice, Romani migrants are not recognized as genuine refugees but classified as irregular migrants and thus labeled as "bogus" asylum seekers. This article discusses the discursive process through which the legal status of Romani migrants is irregularized within the German migration regime. Furthermore, through an empirical study, the article shows how Romani organizations and migrants are struggling for a collective right to remain in Germany. In their political-legal struggles for recognition, Roma reinterpret not only their legal status as irregular migrants, but also their legal-cultural practices: by appropriating the semantics of human rights through the lenses of their cultural backgrounds. This, in turn, shifts the analytical focus to the productivity of human rights discourses. They are assumed to be an effective tool to enforce legal claims against the German migration regime. In this context, the article examines legal-cultural practices, which become visible in the struggle, by exploring six justification narratives-through these, the Roma's political-legal belonging to the German nation-state shall be legitimized.

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“…By placing Yugoslavia (or a historically continuous Bosnia) outside the logic of colonialism, both Samir and Ibrahim absented themselves from the question of racism and the active reproduction of racialized hierarchies. Their repudiation also glosses over the historical marginalization of particular groups, such as the treatment of the Roma during the socialist Yugoslav era (Sardelić 2015). Moreover, as Samir's reliance on idioms such as "coming out of the jungle" demonstrates, these rhetorical alignments do not erase the representational hierarchies that centre white Europeanness.…”

Section: Anti-colonial Solidarities and Unexpected Intimaciesmentioning

confidence: 99%