Home-Land: Romanian Roma, Domestic Spaces and the State / / Rachel Humphris.

In contemporary society, passport checks at nation-state borders are accepted. But what if these checks were happening in our own home? This book is the first intimate ethnography of these governing encounters in the home space between Romanian Roma migrants and local frontline workers. Focusing on...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Bristol University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Global Migration and Social Change
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Who’s who
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Series Preface
  • Romanian Roma, motherhood and the home
  • Home truths: fieldwork, writing and anthropology’s ‘home encounter’
  • Shifting faces of the state: austerity, post-welfare and frontline work
  • Romanian Roma mothers: labelling and negotiating stigma
  • Intimate bureaucracy and home encounters
  • Gender and intimate state encounters
  • Borders and intimate state encounters
  • Homemade state: intimate state encounters at the margins
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index