A lost generation? Racialization and stalled social mobility in a group of Roma migrants in the UK

Beluschi-Fabeni, Giuseppe; Leggio, Daniele Viktor; Matras, Yaron

doi:10.1093/migration/mny003

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“…Such employment patterns were also found among more recent migrants from the Czech and Slovak Republics and is further borne out by other research in the UK with diverse Roma populations (e.g. Beluschi-Fabeni et al, 2018;Grill, 2012;Martin et al, 2017).…”

Section: Purposes Of Migration To the Uksupporting

confidence: 75%

‘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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Section: Purposes Of Migration To the Uksupporting

confidence: 75%

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

Greenfields

Dagilyte²

2018

Intersections

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“…However, the wider literature on international migration is extensive and highlights a number of factors, including the push and pull factors of migration for work, study, fear of persecution and, increasingly, environmental and climate change (Botterill, 2014;Gorinas and Pytliková, 2017;Parenti, 2011;Vargas-Silva, Markaki and Sumption, 2016) as well as the challenges of integration or assimilation (Klarenbeek, 2019;Beluschi-Fabeni, Leggio and Matros, 2019;Kesler and Safi, 2018). Furthermore, theories of 'migration networks' describe specific forms of social capital that migrants can draw upon to gain access to resources (Massey et al, 1998).…”

Section: Deindustrialisation and Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Just tensions left, right and centre”: assessing the social impact of international migration on deindustrialized locale

Lloyd

Devanney

Wattis

et al. 2021

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Deindustrialisation wrought socio-economic and cultural change throughout the UK, WesternEurope and the USA. Within some deindustrialised zones, multiple indices of deprivation rise significantly which presents complex and interrelated social problems including poverty, unemployment, poor quality private rented housing, complex physical and mental health problems, and crime. The austerity agenda further exacerbates these problems, cuts local support services, and further entrenches the myriad issues embedded in post-industrial communities. This paper draws on a funded research project in a deindustrialised town in the North East of England designed to measure the impact of migration on the settled community.The project found advantages to inward migration alongside increased community tension where poor neighbourhoods yet to recover from long-term deindustrialisation saw a rapid increase of international migrants. These tensions represent competition for scarce resources amongst the fragmented multi-ethnic working class trying to get by in areas of 'permanent recession'.

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“…During the past few years there have been increasing numbers of studies on the European policies for, and the local context of, Roma migration, with a particular focus on the destination countries. A large part of this scholarly literature highlights the limitations of European citizenship in effectively protecting the rights of the most vulnerable during their sojourns within the Union (van Baar et al 2019) and demonstrates that their social mobility is stalled at the destination (Beluschi-Fabeni et al 2018). In addition, their exclusion continues or even intensifies after they return home (Creţan and Powell 2018).…”

Section: The Migration Of the Romamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, their exclusion continues or even intensifies after they return home (Creţan and Powell 2018). A 4-year-long EU-funded research project (MigRom) empirically investigated the mobility of the Romanian Roma (Matras and Leggio 2018). Recent studies also focus on the ethnically mixed communities of origin within Romania (Anghel 2016;.…”

Section: The Migration Of the Romamentioning

confidence: 99%

Romanian Identity and Immigration in Europe

Anghel¹,

Toma²,

Fosztó³

2019

The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity

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to migrate, and migration of minorities, where migrants belonging to minorities use ties and networks in the same ethnic group. For the first case, the study analyzed the migration of Romanian Germans and Hungarians; for the second, that of ethnic Romanians; and for the third, the migration of Romanian Roma, a migratory flow that has attracted much attention in the past decade. Using this typology, the chapter not only provides a more comprehensive and accurate image of migration from Romania but also discusses how identity and ethnicity can be meaningful categories in migration studies.

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A lost generation? Racialization and stalled social mobility in a group of Roma migrants in the UK

Cited by 11 publications

References 33 publications

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

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

“Just tensions left, right and centre”: assessing the social impact of international migration on deindustrialized locale

Romanian Identity and Immigration in Europe

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