The production of irregular citizenship through mobile governmentalities: racism against roma at the security-mobility nexus

Baar, Huub van

doi:10.1080/17450101.2021.1902241

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“…Five of the studies analyzed dealt with aspects of the community (Bereményi, 2023;Clavé-Mercier & Olivera, 2016;Cousin et al, 2021;Gamella, 2007;Legros & Vitale, 2011). Three texts focused on identity (Grill, 2018;Vrăbiescu, 2017;Viruela, 2004), and six on mobility (Anghel & Fosztó, 2022;Dimitrova, 2013;Magazzini & Piemontese, 2016;Marcu, 2013;Sigona, 2011;van Baar, 2021).…”

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“…Finally, six studies examined aspects of mobility (Anghel & Fosztó, 2022;Dimitrova, 2013;Magazzini & Piemontese, 2016;Marcu, 2013;Sigona, 2011;van Baar, 2021). Three key issues emerge in these texts when considering the plight of Roma throughout Europe.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Large families, families left behind in the country of origin and needing support from abroad (especially the elderly), or dependent family members in poor health, provide additional incentives for Roma to seek better opportunities elsewhere (Sigona, 2011). In addition, mobility networks are created between community groups that provide security and information on employment, legal matters, or other issues that may arise (Montoya & Gutiérrez, 2023;van Baar, 2021). The texts analyzed indicate that most Roma are employed in low-skilled jobs, particularly in agriculture, the service sector, and care for the elderly.…”

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“…In short, the texts focusing on mobility questioned the role of the European Union in its management of migration flows of the Roma in Europe. Another interesting factor discussed was the production of irregular citizenship in which racism played an important role (van Baar, 2021).…”

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Community, Identity, and Mobility of Eastern European Roma: A Systematic Review 2002-2022

Gutiérrez-Sánchez,

Macías-León

2023

J Ethn Cult Stud

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This paper is a systematic review of studies on the situation of Eastern European Roma. It examines themes of community, identity, and mobility published in the literature between 2002 and 2022 in the social science, law, and education fields. Studies were identified methodically by searching multidisciplinary electronic databases and hand searching. The studies found were imported into Mendeley, and titles and abstracts were screened according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. A list of search terms with SKOS descriptors (thesaurus) was generated to cover the relevant topics. A data extraction table was drawn up with a set of fields for each of the studies. Items included bibliographic information, study type, study characteristics, participant characteristics, variables, main findings, and limitations. The database searches yielded a total of 6577 records. After an individual hand-search review of the texts, a total of 14 studies were considered and included. We concluded that very little research has been done on the central themes of the study. In addition, there are no texts that look in depth at the issue of education as a tool for poverty reduction.

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Community, Identity, and Mobility of Eastern European Roma: A Systematic Review 2002-2022

Gutiérrez-Sánchez,

Macías-León

2023

J Ethn Cult Stud

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“…Following this intervention, I have argued that not only assimilation through 'sedentarization', but also expulsion through 'nomadization' has been among the key strategies of governing that have dramatically affected the situation of Roma, Gypsies and Travellers in Europe, as well as the maintenance and reproduction of their ostensible ethnic-racial 'difference', throughout the twentieth century and up till now (van Baar 2021). Nomadization is a mechanism that overlaps with, but also differs from (spatial) displacement through expulsion; it refers to a mechanism that tries to keep people on the move or to maintain or produce the conditions that contribute to what I have called the 'perpetual mobile machine of forced mobility' and the interrelated 'institutionalization of rootlessness' (van Baar 2015).…”

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The Construction of Racial and Social Difference through Securitizing Mobility. Viapolitics and the Disputing of Citizenship of Roma

Baar¹

2022

Sicherheit Und Differenz in Historischer Perspektive | Security and Difference in Historical Perspective

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This chapter uses the case study of the European Roma to demonstrate the importance of mobile governmentalities in regulating mobility and citizenship. These are political technologies in which mobility itself is turned into a strategy to govern mobility, particularly through keeping people on the move. Whereas most studies about mobility and migration focus on the governing of mobilities and on interrelated biopolitical mechanisms, I extend these investigations to mobile governmentalities, which include what I call governance and securitization through 'nomadization', as well as through what William Walters calls 'viapolitics'. The latter is a form of governance that considers vehicles, routes and journeys as mobile sites of power and contestation in their own right. Through an examination of a historical case study about Dutch Roma, I show that not only camps and halting sites, but also vehicles and mobility itself are to be understood as technologies of governing minorities such as Roma along racial and security lines, thereby turning them into irregular citizens.

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The (In)visibilisation of Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers in higher education equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives in England and Wales

Morgan,

Marsh,

Clark

2024

High Educ

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Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are under-represented as students in higher education in England and Wales. Moreover, the communities rarely feature in equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategies and practices including race equality initiatives. Drawing upon the reflections and experiences of 14 equality, diversity and inclusion staff across 11 universities (7 post-1992 and 4 pre-1992) in England and Wales, we explore the technologies through which Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are made (in)visible in university EDI discursive spaces. Interview participants included Gypsy, Roma and Traveller academics; subject librarians; Deans of EDI; Widening Participation Managers; Inclusion and Equality Advisors and Managers; and Researchers and Leads on Race Equality Charters and Decolonising the Curriculum. Through inductively analysing our findings, we suggest that the normalisation of neoliberalism across the higher education academy in England and Wales has resulted in Gypsies, Roma and Travellers being constructed as ‘irregular’ in higher education EDI discourse. We demonstrate how neoliberal-informed discursive rules, acting as ‘systems of exclusion’, control what is seen as a legitimate concern and support higher education institutions to intentionally ‘look through’ inequality issues affecting the communities. Informational difficulties, institutional focus on ‘value for money’ and numbers of students which prioritise the market-driven ‘business case’ over social justice, act as technologies of invisibilisation, positioning these diverse communities as not being ‘within the true’ in relation to institutional neoliberal discourses and ‘regimes of truth’. This culminates in ‘institutional inertia’ and neglect towards EDI issues, further contributing to the under-representation of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in higher education.

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The production of irregular citizenship through mobile governmentalities: racism against roma at the security-mobility nexus

Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

Community, Identity, and Mobility of Eastern European Roma: A Systematic Review 2002-2022

Community, Identity, and Mobility of Eastern European Roma: A Systematic Review 2002-2022

The Construction of Racial and Social Difference through Securitizing Mobility. Viapolitics and the Disputing of Citizenship of Roma

The (In)visibilisation of Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers in higher education equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives in England and Wales

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