Constructing Roma Migrants : : European Narratives and Local Governance.

• Superior document: IMISCOE Research Series
• Author: Magazzini, Tina.
• TeilnehmendeR: Piemontese, Stefano.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019.; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: IMISCOE Research Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 pages)

Table of Contents

Constructing Roma Migrants -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Roma Westward Migration in Europe: Rethinking Political, Social, and Methodological Challenges -- 1.1 Problematizing the Assumptions -- 1.2 The Securitarian Shift of "Roma Integration" Initiatives -- 1.3 Coping Strategies and Counter-Narratives -- 1.4 The Contribution of an Ethnographic Approach to "Roma Migration" -- 1.5 Book Structure -- 1.6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part I: Methodological, Legal, Policy, and Media Debates -- Chapter 2: Conceptual and Methodological Considerations in Researching "Roma Migration" -- 2.1 The Multiple Faces of the Concept of "the Roma" and "the Migrant" -- 2.2 Roma and Migrant: Two Similarly Complex and Contested Concepts -- 2.3 Literature and Statistics on Roma Migration -- 2.3.1 Statistics on "Roma Migration" -- 2.3.2 Academic Literature on "Roma Migration" -- 2.4 Conceptual and Methodological Considerations -- 2.5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: A Roma European Crisis Road-Map: A Holistic Answer to a Complex Problem -- 3.1 The Persistence of the Roma Crisis -- 3.2 The European Union's Scope for Action and Initiatives -- 3.3 The Limitations of a Discrimination Policy Approach -- 3.4 Looking for the Answer in Human Rights and Minorities' Protection -- 3.5 Adopting a Holistic View of EU Roma Law and Policy -- 3.6 In Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Conformism or Inadequacy of Roma Inclusion Policies? Missed Opportunities at the European and Local Levels -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Marginalized Roma: A European Union "Issue" -- 4.2.1 Data Collection for Evidence-Based Policy Development -- 4.3 The European Parliament Pilot Project on Marginalized Roma Inclusion: Defining the Problem and Identifying Areas of Action -- 4.3.1 The European Structural Funds 2007-2013.

4.3.2 The National Roma Integration Strategy as Precondition for the European Structural and Investment Funds Investments -- 4.4 ROMACT: Administrative Capacity at the Local Level -- 4.5 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: 'Modern-Day Fagins', 'Gaudy Mansions' and 'Increasing Numbers': Narratives on Roma Migrants in the Build-Up to the British EU Referendum -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Migration Policy Narratives -- 5.3 Representation and Stigmatisation of Roma Migrants -- 5.4 Migration, Benefits and the Roma -- 5.4.1 Early Developments at the National Level -- 5.4.2 Local Developments: Ţăndărei Roma in Manchester -- 5.4.3 The Big Issue "Loophole": From Local to National Concern -- 5.4.4 Benefits as a Pull Factors and the "Roma Flood" Scare -- 5.5 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Part II: Securitization and Integration Policies -- Chapter 6: When Housing Policies Are Ethnically Targeted: Struggles, Conflicts and Contentions for a "Possible City" -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Going Beyond Camps in the "Crisis" Context -- 6.3 Seeking the Right to Be Included in the Possible City -- 6.4 Contesting the Ethnic Character of the Project: The Occupation of via Traves -- 6.5 Contesting the Selective Character of the Project: The Occupation of via Asti -- 6.6 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Dwelling in Limbo. Temporality in the Governance of Romani Migrants in Spain -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Temporality of the Inhabited Space -- 7.2.1 The Perceived Temporality of Migrants' Life Course -- 7.3 Temporary Devices of Governance -- 7.4 Citizenship Timeline -- 7.5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: The Stilled-Other of the Citizen. "Roma Beggars" and Regimes of (Im)mobility in an Austrian City -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.1.1 Intersecting Border Studies and Mobility Studies -- 8.1.2 The Effectiveness of Regimes-of-(Im)mobility.

8.2 Methodology and Research Context -- 8.2.1 Research Context -- 8.2.2 The Discourse on "Roma Beggars" in Town -- 8.3 Discourses, Practices and Policies Governing "Roma Beggars" (and Others) in Karlstadt -- 8.3.1 Criminalizing Transport -- 8.3.2 Invisibilizing Borders -- 8.3.3 Educating Beggars -- 8.3.4 Criminalization Through Victimization -- 8.3.5 Stillness -- 8.3.6 Deportability -- 8.4 Discussion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9: The Migrating Poor: Romanian Roma Under Social Authoritarianism in Poland -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Changing Patterns of Migration and Policies in Poland -- 9.3 Policies and Narrative Towards Roma Migrants -- 9.4 The Flourishing Power of Social Authoritarianism -- 9.5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part III: Coping Strategies and Counter-Narratives -- Chapter 10: Identity Game for Welfare: Circumventing Surveillance of Legal Migrants in Europe -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Financial Sorting as Migration Governance -- 10.3 Producing, Challenging and Transmitting the Ethnic Frame -- 10.4 Passing the Virtual Sally Port: Coping Strategies of Roma Newcomers -- 10.4.1 Tax Credit Procedures: The Castle of HMRC -- 10.4.2 Child Tax Credit Claims: Identity Management Online -- 10.4.3 Hide and Seek: HMRC's Electronic Monitoring Mechanisms -- 10.5 Eluding Social Sorting by Identity Fraud Online -- 10.6 The Reality Gap -- 10.7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11: Contesting the Structural Constraints. A Case Study of Roma Asylum Seekers from Serbia -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 The Case of Roma Migrants from Serbia -- 11.3 Framing the Roma -- 11.4 "Roma Migrants" as Social Actors with Agency -- 11.5 Experiencing the Restrictive Regime -- 11.6 Challenging the Regime of Deportability -- 11.7 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12: Patchwork Economies in Europe: Economic Strategies Among Homeless Romanian Roma in Copenhagen.

12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Methodology -- 12.3 Analytical Perspectives -- 12.4 When Employment (muncă) Is Not an Option, Then You Turn to Business (afacere) -- 12.5 The badocari Economic Niche in Copenhagen -- 12.6 Income Opportunities at Home in Romania -- 12.7 Patchwork Household Economies Configured Around Debt -- 12.8 Micro-economics as a Challenge to Political, Economic and Social Contexts -- 12.9 Concluding Comments -- Bibliography -- Chapter 13: Differing Romani Mobilities? The Case of Cross-Border Migration of Roma Between Slovenia and Austria -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 The Representation of Romani Migrants in Europe -- 13.3 Migration Histories of Roma from the Former Yugoslav Space -- 13.4 The Position of Roma in Slovenia -- 13.5 Contextualizing Economic Migration of Roma from the Pomurje Region -- 13.6 Romani Individuals as Economic Migrants: Life Stories Between Slovenia and Austria -- 13.7 Conclusion -- Bibliography.