Social ties<i>at work</i>: Roma migrants and the community dynamics

Pantea, Maria-Carmen

doi:10.1080/01419870.2012.664282

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“…This is called family reunification-policies that seek to preserve family unity during or following migration -and is strongly supported by the authorities (Lee, 2013). Still, the role of kinship has been understudied, with few exceptions (Curran and Saguy, 2013;Pantea, 2013;Quinlan, 2005;Choldin, 1973;Ballard, 1990).…”

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“…Literature on Roma migrations often has an external focus, concentrating on the range of reactions to Roma as "poverty migrants" or "bogus" refugees in receiving countries (Castaneda, 2014) or on the politics of Roma ethnicity, security, integration practices, and legal perspectives (Magazzini and Piemontese, 2016;McGarry and Drake, 2013;Ram, 2014;Pantea, 2013). For the Roma, however, the decision to migrate depends on a number of factors including an individual's gender and position within a social network (Quinlan, 2005;Curran and Saguy, 2001).…”

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“Visiting” Close Kin Abroad: Migration Strategies of the Serbian Roma

Čvorović

Coe

2017

J. Disc.

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The Roma/Gypsies are the largest, poorest and youngest ethnic group in Europe. During the past decade, the Roma from Central and Eastern Europe were of considerable public concern due to a large inflow of Roma emigrants into Western European countries. Applications for international protection submitted by the Roma from the Western Balkans became a substantial part of the asylum case-load at the EU level. More recently, however, a new wave of migrants, mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, has found its way to Europe. As Serbia is classified as a safe country, Serbian nationals have limited chances of being awarded refugee status. Nevertheless undeterred, the Serbian Roma/Gypsies continue to travel to and apply for asylum in Western European countries. Using data from original fieldwork conducted among Serbian Roma women, we argue that their desire to travel and possibly reside in one of the more affluent Western European countries is connected to the fact that they have extensive kinship ties in those counties. Kinship ties, in brief, explain much of current Roma migration practices.

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“Visiting” Close Kin Abroad: Migration Strategies of the Serbian Roma

Čvorović

Coe

2017

J. Disc.

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“…Dette gjør at de kan vaere i stand til å reise til Norge og tjene penger til tross for at mange formelt sett er svaert ressurssvake. Å ha et bredt nettverk gjennom familie og landsby som tilbyr hjelp og informasjon og sosial støtte, beskytter dem med andre ord mot å bli fanget i utnyttende relasjoner til utenforstående (Pantea 2013). Til gjengjeld er mange svaert avhengige av sine familienettverk, og de maktrelasjonene som disse nettverkene er bygget på er kanskje i seg selv de som i størst grad gir sårbarhet for utnytting i disse migrasjonsstrømmene.…”

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Rumensk tiggemigrasjon i et menneskehandelsperspektiv

Friberg¹,

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2019

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Fattigdom og marginalisering gir økt sårbarhet for utnytting, og rom er overrepresentert blant ofre for menneskehandel både i Norge og Europa for øvrig. Etter Romanias inntreden i EU har migrasjon til Norge for å tigge blitt en etablert praksis enkelte steder i Romania. Denne artikkelen beskriver denne migrasjonsstrømmen, og diskuterer potensialet for maktmisbruk og utnytting av tiggere. Med utgangspunkt i norsk menneskehandelslovgivning analyseres makt-og sårbarhetsrelasjoner i form av kontroll over og avhengighet av ulike typer ressurser som tiggere trenger. Basert på et omfattende kvalitativt og kvantitativt datamateriale produsert i Norge og Romania, tar vi for oss økonomisk avhengighet knyttet til informasjon, lån og transporttjenester, tiggeplasser og trygge steder å sove, samt emosjonell og sosial avhengighet knyttet til beskyttelse og støtte innenfor uformelle nettverk og familierelasjoner. Vi viser hvordan ressursene som tiggerne trenger vanskelig lar seg monopolisere, samtidig som nettverksdrevet «klyngemigrasjon» og vilje til å sove ute under kummerlige forhold reduserer avhengigheten av eksterne aktører. Avhengigheten av tette uformelle relasjoner kan til gjengjeld øke sårbarhet for utnytting innad i familie og nettverk, fordi kostnadene ved å bryte oppleves som store. Vi finner imidlertid ikke at denne sårbarheten øker gjennom migrasjon.

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“…Repatriation reactivated feelings of resentment and distress beyond those actually repatriated. At community level, it generated new divides (Pantea, ). However, there are signals that some migrants receive the repatriation allowance repeatedly or encouraged/ arranged the precarious migration of the most disadvantaged Roma for financial gains (see Nicolae, ).…”

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Policy Implications for Addressing Roma Precarious Migration Through Employment at Home

Pantea

2013

International Migration

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Roma migration from Romania is often precarious and takes place in circumstances that increase pre-existent levels of vulnerability. For many, migration is a last resort solution for navigating an insecure economic environment. For others, it has become a source of profit they draw upon, sometimes at the expense of the most vulnerable members of Roma communities. The major challenge this article addresses is how to create the enabling circumstances at home in order to provide alternatives to precarious migration for Roma. Informed by interviews with Roma migrants and with local authorities, this article examines the policy options at local level, addressing Roma precarious migration. It examines the limitations of the current employment policies in relation to Roma in order to identify what seem to work, what sounds promising and what does not work. It advises that job fairs and counselling campaigns are likely to fail, as they do not tackle the structural constraints keeping Roma outside the labour market. Unless linked with realistic employment opportunities, training courses also remain precarious strategies for labour market integration. The article also argues that individualized interventions (including repatriation schemes) are likely to increase community divides. The article supports structural, community-level measures for tackling unemployment and argues that future policies need to have Roma communities as the 'unit of intervention', because the social preconditions for migration are likely to be generated at this level. This policy proposal is grounded in the research finding that an apparently consistent group of Roma migrants, prone to deceitful recruitment and precarious migration, would endorse reasonable and stable economic solutions at home. Yet accepting that circular migration may be inevitable for a number of Roma is an important ingredient when designing policy interventions.

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Social tiesat work: Roma migrants and the community dynamics

Cited by 34 publications

References 14 publications

“Visiting” Close Kin Abroad: Migration Strategies of the Serbian Roma

“Visiting” Close Kin Abroad: Migration Strategies of the Serbian Roma

Rumensk tiggemigrasjon i et menneskehandelsperspektiv

Policy Implications for Addressing Roma Precarious Migration Through Employment at Home

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