Informality and the Neo-Ghetto: Modulating Power Through Roma Camps

Marinaro, Isabella Clough

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“…Furthermore, if the Sorgenfri camp was a prominent object of contention, it also constituted an important space for self-organising and for activist and community work on the part of outside groups. This seems to confirm an argument made by Gaja Maestri (2017) and other ethnographers within the field of camp studies, namely that camps can function as spaces where collective political subjectivities are shaped from below (see also Alkhalili, 2017aAlkhalili, , 2017bClough Marinaro, 2019;Rygiel, 2011Rygiel, , 2012Sigona, 2014). 37 I certainly do not want to glorify life in the Sorgenfri camp -the hardships were real, and the squatters' had their share of interpersonal disputes.…”

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Free to Move Along: On the Urbanisation of Cross-border Mobility Controls - A Case of Roma 'EU migrants' in Malmö, Sweden

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This thesis traces the local government response to the presence of impoverished and street-homeless so-called vulnerable EU-citizens in Malmö (Sweden's third largest city) between the years 2014-2016, and develops an analysis about how bordering takes place in cities. "Vulnerable EU-citizens" is an established term in the Swedish context, used by the authorities to refer to citizens of other EU Member States who are staying in Sweden without a right of residence and in situations of extreme poverty and marginality. A majority of those whom are categorised as "vulnerable EU-citizens" are Roma from Bulgaria or Romania. Starting from the observation that "vulnerable EU-citizens" have been pervasively problematised as unwanted migrants, the thesis asks how the municipal-and local authorities in Malmö act to discourage and otherwise manage their mobilities by controlling their conditions of stay. In doing so, it seeks to elaborate on theories about intra-EU bordering practices, and to elucidate some of the mechanisms, effects and implications of urban mobility control practices. My most sincere gratitude also goes to the scholars who so generously agreed to be discussants and readers at my (many!

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Free to Move Along: On the Urbanisation of Cross-border Mobility Controls - A Case of Roma 'EU migrants' in Malmö, Sweden

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“…Thus, the controlling functions of public institutions over the areas of Roma relegation are activated not only through bureaucratisation but also through the informal powers of third-parties (e.g. NGOs or Roma experts) by which they exercise both care and control functions (Maestri, 2019;Marinaro, 2019). As we observed in our case studies, Roma experts or mediators partake in an informal power structure that both helps and punishes segregated Roma.…”

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‘We lurk in the hidden places’: The (un)stable spatialisation of Roma poverty in Romania

Anghel¹,

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2022

Urban Studies

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This article studies the urban geographies of Roma poverty by exploring variations in spatialisation. We draw on Sassen’s work on expulsions to argue that the spatialisation of poverty does not always result in a ‘ghetto’. We show instead that the ‘savage sorting’ of winners and losers and the resulting expulsions separate Roma into different levels of (housing) market worthiness. However, this sorting is also shaped by a ‘governance of Gypsy urban areas’ that enables a partial stabilisation of expulsion outcomes. We flesh out these arguments using interviews and observations collected in several Roma ghettos and slum areas from two Transylvanian mid-sized cities in Romania. Our research indicates that the spatialisation of (Roma) poverty is the result of disordering and re-ordering processes, that make it more ruthless, but at the same time politically containable.

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“…The stigmatisation of the Roma, Traveller, or Gypsy body begets territorial stigmatisation, and the stigmatisation of the 'camp' begets tribal stigma -for both inhabitants and, as Creţan and Powell (2018) have demonstrated, those living elsewhere. Camps are the product of both willing congregation and confinement through formal regulation and informal social control (Clough Marinaro, 2019;Maestri, 2017;Picker, 2016). However, the latter are obscured within representations of camps as evidence of an inherently unassimilable social body, 'beyond' integration, and exterior to European civility (Creţan and Powell, 2018;Creţan and O'Brien, 2019;Maestri, 2017Maestri, , 2019Tyler, 2013).…”

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Territory and territorial stigmatisation: On the production, consequences and contestation of spatial disrepute

Sisson

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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Territorial stigmatisation emerged over the past decade as the prevailing concept for understanding the phenomenon of disreputable places and the processes by which they are produced. Following the work of Loïc Wacquant, several studies have articulated its centrality to the neoliberal restructuring of capital and the state. Departing from Wacquant, several have also examined the various forms of resistance to territorial stigmatisation. In reviewing this literature, this paper argues and outlines how territory – paradoxically under-theorised in the literature to date – can clarify the production of territorial stigmatisation, the obfuscations and legitimations it performs, and resistance and contestation.

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Informality and the Neo-Ghetto: Modulating Power Through Roma Camps

Cited by 4 publications

References 29 publications

Free to Move Along: On the Urbanisation of Cross-border Mobility Controls - A Case of Roma 'EU migrants' in Malmö, Sweden

Free to Move Along: On the Urbanisation of Cross-border Mobility Controls - A Case of Roma 'EU migrants' in Malmö, Sweden

‘We lurk in the hidden places’: The (un)stable spatialisation of Roma poverty in Romania

Territory and territorial stigmatisation: On the production, consequences and contestation of spatial disrepute

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