Romaphobia and the media: mechanisms of power and the politics of representations

Tremlett, Annabel; Messing, Vera; Kóczé, Angéla

doi:10.1080/1070289x.2017.1380270

Cited by 30 publications

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“…At the same time social policy changes had a polarising effect as they reinforced the sharp division between the working and non-working population. This increasing social divide seems to have resonated with the majoritarian prejudices against the sizeable Roma minority in Hungary (Tremlett, Messing, & Kóczé, 2017). Despite its seemingly uniform work-and familyorientation, the social policy reforms after 2010 were ideologically diverse: they entailed neo-liberal, (neo)conservative and étatist elements alike (Szikra, 2014).…”

Section: Policy Contentmentioning

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When Populist Leaders Govern: Conceptualising Populism in Policy Making

Bartha

Boda

Szikra

2020

PaG

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The rise of populist governance throughout the world offers a novel opportunity to study the way in which populist leaders and parties rule. This article conceptualises populist policy making by theoretically addressing the substantive and discursive components of populist policies and the decision-making processes of populist governments. It first reconstructs the implicit ideal type of policy making in liberal democracies based on the mainstream governance and policy making scholarship. Then, taking stock of the recent populism literature, the article elaborates an ideal type of populist policy making along the dimensions of content, procedures and discourses. As an empirical illustration we apply a qualitative congruence analysis to assess the conformity of a genuine case of populist governance, social policy in post-2010 Hungary with the populist policy making ideal type. Concerning the policy content, the article argues that policy heterodoxy, strong willingness to adopt paradigmatic reforms and an excessive responsiveness to majoritarian preferences are distinguishing features of any type of populist policies. Regarding the procedural features populist leaders tend to downplay the role of technocratic expertise, sideline veto-players and implement fast and unpredictable policy changes. Discursively, populist leaders tend to extensively use crisis frames and discursive governance instruments in a Manichean language and a saliently emotional manner that reinforces polarisation in policy positions. Finally, the article suggests that policy making patterns in Hungarian social policy between 2010 and 2018 have been largely congruent with the ideal type of populist policy making.

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Section: Policy Contentmentioning

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When Populist Leaders Govern: Conceptualising Populism in Policy Making

Bartha

Boda

Szikra

2020

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“…Roma population in the UK does not explain the number of UK based scholars writing on Roma. 7 Even if Roma and Traveller integration and exclusion is an important topic in the UK media (Richardson 2014), its saliency is not higher than in other countries, notably France, Italy and Spain (Tremlett et al 2017). Rather, the UK's high publication rate reflects the predominance of English-language publications in the social sciences and humanities (Larsen and von Ins 2010); and this effect is magnified in the field of Romani studies given that many scholars in other European countries write papers on Roma in their native lan-guage, publishing them in national scientific journals.…”

Section: The Constitution Of a Transnational Scientific Community Of mentioning

confidence: 99%

Depicting communities of Romani studies: on the who, when and where of Roma related scientific publications

Ioannoni¹,

Vitale²,

Costa³

et al. 2020

Scientometrics

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Contemporary research on Roma from diverse disciplines has grown strongly during the last years. This is the first bibliometric study on the field of Romani studies considering the period 1997-2018 with the aims of mapping scholar's disciplines and analyzing localiza-tion and their thematic contributions. The world evolution of Roma research topics and their citation impacts has been analyzed using a Network Analysis approach. The Scopus database was used to retrieve bibliographic records on Gypsy and Roma research. The bib-liometric analysis of scholarly endeavour identifies three principal clusters: 'History and Culture', 'Education', and 'Discrimination and Policy'. Results shows that scholars became more attentive to Roma issues as it became an important topic in public debate. Informed by this analysis, questions are raised about how to strengthen connectivity, collaborative research and knowledge exchange beyond national and disciplinary borders. In the term citation map among the most followed themes by number of normalized average quotations , the topics of 'Discrimination and Policy' analysis undeniably emerges. In the current historical moment characterised by rising ethno-nationalism and racism we intend that this paper informs further research that will deepen our understanding of the contributions of different social science disciplines with regards to epistemology, methodology and impact.

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“…This approach reignites the debate on the undeserving poor (Romano, 2017), deeply embedded into British welfare policy for decades, but which in the current climate exudes a particularly xenophobic tone. The impact of a toxic media environment (Balch and Balabanova, 2016) stigmatising A2 migrants as 'welfare tourists', coupled with experiences of anti-Roma discrimination (McGarry, 2017;Tremlett et al, 2017) has accordingly created a sense of insecurity for members of these migrant communities (, 2016). Thus, we see evidence of a situation coming from the strictest interpretation of EU free movement rights that is very much outside the spirit of European Union law and integration objectives.…”

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“…Whilst rarely explicitly framed as anti-Roma reportage, xenophobic representations of EU migrants are coupled with persistent 'tabloid' media hostility towards EU Roma citizens who are portrayed as the undesirable migrant par excellence Kóczé, 2017;Clark, 2015): tabloid newsprint often associate anti-migrant stories with images of 'Roma villages' or visibly identifiable Roma individuals (on which see further: Tremlett et al, 2017;Richardson, 2014). At the same time, EU Roma welfare benefit claimants in the UK were found to be only occasionally consulting civil society organisations for help, even though compared to non-Roma peers they experienced disproportionate monitoring of their welfare claims and ever-increasing documentary hurdles when they sought to access benefit entitlements (Dagilyte and Greenfields, 2015;Martin et al, 2017).…”

Section: The Uk Political and Economic Context Of Welfare 'Bordering'mentioning

confidence: 99%

‘I Would Never Have Come If We’d Know It Might Be Like This’

Greenfields

Dagilyte²

2018

Intersections

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This paper presents the findings from a small-scale pilot study which explores the experiences of accessing welfare benefits by the migrant Roma European Union (EU) citizens in the UK. It compares administrative barriers and individuals’ knowledge of welfare entitlement both prior and after the implementation of changes to the welfare regime in 2014, when a tranche of ‘policy hardening’ legal enactments came into force. For the migrants who participated in this study, precarious, low paid post-migration work has brought several hazards, including a non-eligibility for certain social protections and an inability to demonstrate documentation which enable access to ‘passported’ welfare benefits. The combination of problems in accessing welfare benefits and the resulting state interventions, including expulsion from the UK in some cases, suggest that EU Roma citizens experience disproportionate negative impacts of welfare hardening, adding to the much vaunted ‘hostile environment’ to EU migrants in the wake of the Brexit vote. As such, we find the practice of ‘bordering’ migrant EU Roma citizens to the UK is taking place through covert state enforcement action against families and households, discouraging effective and genuine use of their free movement rights guaranteed under European Union law.

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Romaphobia and the media: mechanisms of power and the politics of representations

Cited by 30 publications

References 20 publications

When Populist Leaders Govern: Conceptualising Populism in Policy Making

When Populist Leaders Govern: Conceptualising Populism in Policy Making

Depicting communities of Romani studies: on the who, when and where of Roma related scientific publications

‘I Would Never Have Come If We’d Know It Might Be Like This’

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