Song to the Evening Star. Four-Part Song

9 ‘Race’, Place and Territorial Stigmatisation: The Construction of Roma Migrants in and through Govanhill, Scotland

“…The irony of nostalgia being put to this use was not lost on one journalist, who noted that 'a glimpse of the auld jelly-piece Glasgow' 97 is exactly what contemporary Govanhill offers, with children playing in the street, generations of family members living together, and the buzz and variety of the local shops in place of faceless chains. Yet residents' quotes redeployed in headlines such as 'We're sick to the back teeth of living in fear', 98 describing themselves as 'prisoners in our homes' 99 who 'refuse to walk down the streets alone', 100 contradicted this. Let's Save Govanhill petitioned police 'to stop gangs of men standing in corners and intimidating our pensioners and other residents'.…”