The Romani Subaltern within Neoliberal European Civil Society: NGOization of Human Rights and Silent Voices

Trehan, Nidhi

doi:10.1057/9780230281165_3

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“…On the contrary, in this case, the Roma are taking an active role in political participation, without the support of institutional initiatives, as occurred in Milan during a mobilisation in a squat following the eviction from an informal settlement in the early 2000s (Vitale and Boschetti 2011). While the active participation of the Roma faded away after the experience of the Milan squat (Vitale and Boschetti 2011), this new experience of mobilisation in Rome, strengthened by the new alliances emerging in the context of crisis, could contribute to the Roma becoming the subject of change rather than the object of policies or NGO initiatives (the latter is criticised for silencing the Roma voice [Trehan 2009]).…”

Section: Austerity II or Its Productive Effect: New Solidarities Towmentioning

confidence: 99%

The economic crisis as opportunity: How austerity generates new strategies and solidarities for negotiating Roma access to housing in Rome

Maestri¹

2014

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Section: Austerity II or Its Productive Effect: New Solidarities Towmentioning

confidence: 99%

The economic crisis as opportunity: How austerity generates new strategies and solidarities for negotiating Roma access to housing in Rome

Maestri¹

2014

City

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“…This dynamic is reminiscent of similar tensions which Trehan (2009) andNirenberg (2009) highlighted when analyzing the emergence of a Roma leadership in Eastern European countries and within EU institutions. It underlines how, in order to acquire recognition and legitimacy, Roma spokespersons adopt the policy framework and discourses advanced by gagé institutions, remaining subordinated to them and replicating the structural inequality that historically characterizes the relationship between gagé and Roma groups.…”

Section: The Emergence Of a Roma Political Leadershipmentioning

confidence: 88%

Roma and humanitarianism in the Eternal City

Marinaro

Daniele

2011

Journal of Modern Italian Studies

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This article examines the recent evolution of Rome's city administration's policies for Roma after the Italian government's declaration of a 'nomad emergency'. We analyze the policies as they are formulated by the city government and examine ambiguities in their application and their effects in various Roma communities. We focus on two elements, which, we argue, introduce a new political paradigm not only for the capital but for the management of Roma issues in the country generally. By using a human rights discourse and involving new social actors such as the Italian Red Cross, Rome's mayor, Gianni Alemanno, is redefining the Roma issue as a humanitarian problem. This process supports a new form of political representation from within Roma communities. But in contrast to the discourses of both Alemanno and the Roma leadership, we argue that these new developments in practice result in the erosion of Roma citizenship, legitimizing instead experimental forms of segregation within Italian society.

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“…While some have argued that color should not be the foundation for understanding racism within Europe (Anthias and Yuval-Davis 1992), EU-propagated cosmopolitan discourse should be understood as an iteration of "colorblindness. " For Roma, the types of social programs that these policies produce deploy a rights-based narrative of Romani "inclusion" (Kóczé 2009;Trehan 2009;Kóczé and Rövid 2012;Vrabiescu 2014), which have eluded a structural critique of racism within the European context.…”

Section: Racial Origins Of Neoliberalism: Bridging the Gap Between Thmentioning

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The Class-to-Race Cascade

McCombs

2019

CRS

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This paper explores neoliberal discourse as a racial discourse in relation to how Roma are conceived by academics and policymakers. I develop the concept of the class-to-race cascade as a way to describe the phenomenon, whereby the marginalization of racialized minorities is attributed entirely to their classposition. The cascade flows as follows: neoliberal policies slash benefits to low-income people, low-income people are disproportionately racially marginalized, thus neoliberal policies affect different racialized minorities, perpetuating racism. I trace the lineage of the class-to-race cascade to the concept of the“underclass” as it was developed in the U.S. particularly through the work of William Julius Wilson after the neoliberal turn. I then critique the work of Iván Szelényi and János Ladányi who adapted the “underclass” thesis to Roma, using the class-to-race cascade. Finally, I apply the concept to urban policy discourse inBudapest’s Eighth District, where a large Roma community has lived for nearly a century. I show in this paper that the class-torace cascade is a prominent discursive feature of both policy and academic concepts of Roma.

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The Romani Subaltern within Neoliberal European Civil Society: NGOization of Human Rights and Silent Voices

Cited by 30 publications

References 13 publications

The economic crisis as opportunity: How austerity generates new strategies and solidarities for negotiating Roma access to housing in Rome

The economic crisis as opportunity: How austerity generates new strategies and solidarities for negotiating Roma access to housing in Rome

Roma and humanitarianism in the Eternal City

The Class-to-Race Cascade

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