The Securitization of the Roma in Europe / Huub van Baar, Ana Ivasiuc, Regina Kreide, editors

This book discusses how Europe’s Roma minorities have often been perceived as a threat to majority cultures and societies. Frequently, the Roma have become the target of nationalism, extremism, and racism. At the same time, they have been approached in terms of human rights and become the focus of p...

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Place / Publishing House:Cham : Springer International Publishing, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Human Rights Interventions
Physical Description:1 Online-Resource
Notes:Enthält Literaturangaben
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Summary:This book discusses how Europe’s Roma minorities have often been perceived as a threat to majority cultures and societies. Frequently, the Roma have become the target of nationalism, extremism, and racism. At the same time, they have been approached in terms of human rights and become the focus of programs dedicated to inclusion, anti-discrimination, and combatting poverty. This book reflects on this situation from the viewpoint of how the Roma are often ‘securitized,’ understood and perceived as ‘security problems.’ The authors discuss practices of securitization and the ways in which they have been challenged, and they offer an original contribution to debates about security and human rights interventions at a time in which multiple crises both in and of Europe are going hand-in-hand with intensified xenophobia and security rhetoric. Huub van Baar is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, and Senior Research Fellow of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Ana Ivasiuc is Researcher at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. Regina Kreide is Professor of Political Theory at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. .
ISBN:9783319770352
ac_no:AC16731914
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Huub van Baar, Ana Ivasiuc, Regina Kreide, editors