Interests, Norms and Advocacy: Explaining the Emergence of the Roma onto the EU's Agenda

Ram, Melanie H.

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“…Within this context, so‐called “Romani migration” has been linked to the long‐standing prejudiced perception that Roma are profiteers living on welfare, involved in illegal activities and unwilling to “integrate” (Magazzini and Piemontese ; McGarry ). In response, hostile rhetoric, securitisation and new governance mechanisms including “internal borders” have developed directly targeting Roma migrants (Nacu ; Ram ; van Baar ; Vermeersch ). Roma have become paradigmatic for Western concerns about a “threatening flood” of westward‐bound benefit tourists, heightening the stakes of being labelled as such (Allen ; Grill ).…”

Section: Selective Capture: Reconciling the Tension Between Child Promentioning

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The Bureaucratic Capture of Child Migrants: Effects of In/visibility on Children On the Move

Humphris

Sigona

2019

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This article investigates the "bureaucratic capture" of migrant children through three technologies of the state: labelling, data production and social services, illuminating the ways visibility and invisibility are constructed and managed in the context of restrictionist immigration regimes. Using the case of unaccompanied asylumseeking children, Roma children and undocumented children, we examine how in/visibility is produced; for what purposes, and with what consequences. We demonstrate through the simultaneous broadcasting and disappearance of migrant children, bordering is reconstituted through various performances, rationalities and technologies of immigration governance. The article argues the notion of "best interests" is drawn on when the state can define these interests in accordance with their political aims and resources. The set of cases taken together provide novel insights into how states reconcile conflicting logics and reveals how the implementation of the child rights regime prevents some children from actualising their rights. R esum e: Cet article examine la "capture bureaucratique" d'enfants migrants a travers trois technologies de l'Etat-l' etiquetage, la production de donn ees et les services sociaux-mettant en lumi ere la mani ere dont a la fois la visibilit e et l'invisibilit e sont construites et g er ees dans un contexte de gouvernance migratoire. Prenant le cas d'enfants mineurs non accompagn es, d'enfants roms et d'enfants en situation irr eguli ere, nous examinons comment l'in/visibilit e est produite; dans quels buts, et avec quelles cons equences. Nous montrons comment, de fac ßon simultan ee, la m ediatisation et la disparition d'enfants migrants conduit a la reconstitution de fronti eres ("bordering") a travers diff erentes performances, rationalit es et technologies li ees a la gouvernance de l'immigration. Cet article d efend l'id ee selon laquelle le principe de "l'int erêt sup erieur de l'enfant" est utilis e lorsque l'Etat peut facilement d efinir cet int erêt en lien avec ses objectifs et ressources politiques. Les diff erents cas d' etudes donnent a voir de nouveaux el ements sur la mani ere dont les etats r econcilient des logiques conflictuelles et r ev elent comment l'impl ementation d'un r egime des droits de l'enfant empêche en r ealit e certains enfants d'exercer leurs droits.

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Section: Selective Capture: Reconciling the Tension Between Child Promentioning

confidence: 99%

The Bureaucratic Capture of Child Migrants: Effects of In/visibility on Children On the Move

Humphris

Sigona

2019

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“…The social inclusion of the Roma population 1 became a European priority by the second half of the 1990s and has been a key concern ever since (Ram 2010). This article aims to explore urban educational governance and the processes of the marginalization of the Roma community in Central-Eastern Europe (CEE) from a perspective that highlights the linkages between urban, national and European policy agendas.…”

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‘Fast and violent integration’: school desegregation in a Hungarian town

Neumann

2016

Race Ethnicity and Education

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“…Human rights, anti-discrimination and Roma concerns have become central issues in the European Union (EU) since the 1990s (Vermeersch 2012(Vermeersch , 2013, within the context of the construction of immigration as a major political and social 'problem' and the expansion of the EU in the aftermath of the collapse of communist states in Central and Eastern Europe and armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia (Templer 2006;Sigona and Trehan 2009;Ram 2010). Most of the reports published by the EU monitoring agencies since then have highlighted the lingering problems of discrimination, exclusion and segregation faced by the Roma in key social sectors.…”

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‘Civilising’ the Roma? The depoliticisation of (anti-)racism within the politics of integration

Maeso¹

2014

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This essay questions the enduring difficulties of addressing racism within the current politics of integration in Europe, with a specific focus on the Portuguese context. The analysis centres on integration initiatives to promote employability among the Portuguese Roma and the ways in which they are rationalised by employment gatekeepers and decision-makers. This rationalisation depoliticises racism by constantly shifting the focus to the presumed characteristics of the 'other', re-enacting white-privileged notions of nationhood, Portugueseness and Europeanness. Accordingly, projects based on 'activation of social competences', 'empowerment' and 'interculturality' are implemented as a civilising and disciplinary programme aimed at correcting the presumed deficiencies in ethnically marked populations. The analysis aims to contribute towards a much needed debate on the notion of integration and the re-articulation of the historical legacies of racism in contemporary European democracies.

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Interests, Norms and Advocacy: Explaining the Emergence of the Roma onto the EU's Agenda

Cited by 21 publications

References 17 publications

The Bureaucratic Capture of Child Migrants: Effects of In/visibility on Children On the Move

The Bureaucratic Capture of Child Migrants: Effects of In/visibility on Children On the Move

‘Fast and violent integration’: school desegregation in a Hungarian town

‘Civilising’ the Roma? The depoliticisation of (anti-)racism within the politics of integration

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