Roma migration in the EU: the case of Spain between ‘new’ and ‘old’ minorities

Magazzini, Tina; Piemontese, Stefano

doi:10.33182/ml.v13i2.304

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“…Romani migrants from Eastern Europe are represented in the Spanish institutional imaginary as Romanian and Bulgarian nationals, being identified mostly by their precarious housing or "their way of living" and subjected to several policies and programs for social integration 2 (Magazzini and Piemontese 2016). This institutional imaginary is very often perpetuated by mass media, which reproduces an image of destitute and criminal Romani migrants (López Catalán and Aharchi 2012; Piemontese et al 2014), reinforcing a political need for scapegoating (Beluschi Fabeni et al 2014).…”

Section: The Temporality Of the Inhabited Spacementioning

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Dwelling in Limbo. Temporality in the Governance of Romani Migrants in Spain

Vrăbiescu

2019

IMISCOE Research Series

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This chapter engages with the current debate on Romani mobility and Spanish state practices of implementing socio-educational programs and camp housing to migrant EU citizens. Taking the Madrid city as a case study, this chapter documents and analyses temporary devices of governance that both limit and force the mobility of Romani families from Romania. Implemented by local authorities through specific policies, temporary devices of governance deliver an enforced pressure on Romani migrants who are seen as prospective "failed" subjects of integration and potential returnees. While deterring migrants from accessing territorial social benefits, local authorities and private companies acting as state proxi assign Romani families a "social contract" that aims for their integration. The authorities not only implement problematic policies, but they interpret and label the mobility of Romani as a characteristic of their "provisional" way of living and dwelling. Following Cabot (2012) and Ringel (2016) on the temporality of governance and scholarship on the anthropology of time (Munn 1992; Fabian 2014), I aim to show two entangled processes in local governance: the subject formation of Romani migrants as an ethnicized mobile minority, and the long-term adverse results of project-based, profit-oriented social work. Romani migrants have become the target of a new type of social engineering by bringing into question the establishment of citizenship: agreeing to the social contract not only presumes that Romani migrants are not members of the same community, but also suggests that their lives have a different temporality.

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Section: The Temporality Of the Inhabited Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Dwelling in Limbo. Temporality in the Governance of Romani Migrants in Spain

Vrăbiescu

2019

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“…This tendency can be observed in policy measures created to control recent migratory movements of the Roma towards and within the European Union, as well as in discourses that emerged as a result. Migrations of the Roma minorities in Europe became particularly visible in the context of the EU enlargements in 2004 and 2007, when increased numbers of Eastern Roma migrants moved to Western Europe, triggering the attention of national and EU political bodies (Magazzini and Piemontese 2016). Soon after the EU enlargements, visa liberalization was introduced for the countries of Western Balkans, causing the intensification of Roma migrations from these countries towards the EU.…”

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confidence: 99%

Contesting the Structural Constraints. A Case Study of Roma Asylum Seekers from Serbia

Kruta¹

2019

IMISCOE Research Series

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This chapter reveals the experiences of Roma from Serbia who sought and have been denied asylum protection in some EU countries. The seeking of asylum by the Roma from Serbia, as one of the main patterns of their migration, has come to the centre of debated about the rights of obtaining asylum within the existing EU asylum policies, while enforcing the discourse of "false asylum seekers" and "welfare migrants". By revealing the complex reality within which Roma from Serbia choose to migrate in the form of asylum seeking, the study challenges the discourse of "false asylum seekers" and overcomes the simplification caused by this labelling, through looking at intricate relations between the decisions to seek asylum on the one hand and welfare benefits from getting into asylum procedure on the other. Furthermore, the study sheds light on various ways in which Roma asylum seekers from Serbia exert their power as social actors, thus contesting the tendency to "victimize" Roma populations. The study is based on several months of fieldwork carried out in three different municipalities in Serbia, with Roma whose asylum claims in countries of EU have been denied. This chapter aims to add to the analysis of how existing EU migration policies affect Roma populations by particularly focusing on actor perspective. It moves beyond theoretical analysis and looks at how social actors perceive their own experiences and understand the labels that are being imposed on them.

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“…The Roma population in Europe experiences situations of social marginalization and lives in ethnic enclaves; in addition they face low education levels, high unemployment and poor living and health conditions (Fernández‐Feito, Pesquera‐Cabezas, González‐Cobo, & Prieto‐Salceda, ; Jackson et al., ; Janevic, Jankovic, & Bradley, ; La Parra Casado, Gil González, & de la Torre Esteve, ; Sándor et al., ). Discrimination toward the Roma population (estimated at 2% of the total population) existed historically and continues today; Roma people are the group that faces most resistance by Spanish society (Aisa, Larramona, & Pueyo, ; Arza Porras & Carrón Sánchez, ; Fernández Garcés, Jiménez González, & Motos Pérez, ; Magazzini & Piemontes, ). On one hand, public discourse continues to use (both explicitly and implicitly) stereotypical, prejudicial, and unbalanced descriptions and conceptualizations of the Roma people (Fernández Garcés et al., ), and on the other, it tends to define Spanish institutions and the majority population in non‐racist terms.…”

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Health Providers’ Narratives on Intimate Partner Violence Against Roma Women in Spain

Briones-Vozmediano

Parra‐Casado

Vives‐Cases

2018

American J of Comm Psychol

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This qualitative study identifies health professionals' dominant, adaptive, and liberating narratives regarding inter-ethnic relations when talking about intimate partner violence (IPV) and the health system responses to the way it affects Roma women. Dominant narratives are oppressive internalized stories that shape social perceptions of members of both dominant and minority groups, adaptive narratives refer to those that acknowledge asymmetry and inequality, and liberating narratives directly challenge oppression with resistant views of stereotypes and negative interpretations. A total of 25 in-depth interviews were carried out with healthcare professionals in Spain in 2015. A discourse analysis of the interview transcriptions was conducted, showing the way in which different narratives about Roma people and IPV are combined among health providers. Dominant narratives were more salient: they were used by health providers to reflect prejudicial social perceptions in Spain that depict the Roma as a marginalized and traditional group, to construct Roma women in negative and prejudicial terms as patients, and to explain the existence of the cultural normalization of IPV among Roma women. Adaptive and liberating narratives showed a prevailing ideology in terms of the tendency to socially discriminate against Roma people. Using liberating narratives to train and raise awareness among health professionals about IPV among Roma women could facilitate a positive change in their treatment of Roma women who could be affected by IPV, helping to ameliorate the maintenance of existing prejudices.

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Roma migration in the EU: the case of Spain between ‘new’ and ‘old’ minorities

Cited by 24 publications

References 14 publications

Dwelling in Limbo. Temporality in the Governance of Romani Migrants in Spain

Dwelling in Limbo. Temporality in the Governance of Romani Migrants in Spain

Contesting the Structural Constraints. A Case Study of Roma Asylum Seekers from Serbia

Health Providers’ Narratives on Intimate Partner Violence Against Roma Women in Spain

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